# Garraunboy, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonshire, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Garrán Buí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,044,073 m² (104.41 ha, 258 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,134 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 10 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonshire, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/clonshire.md - Barony: Connello Lower - Electoral division: Croagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 833 people lived in 248 households in the Croagh electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32039 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121035 - Centre: latitude 52.546087, longitude -8.833501 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garraunboy, from 330 m² to 295,046 m² (29.5 ha, 72.91 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1664675: 295,046 m² (29.5 ha, 72.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1664675.md - Parcel 1618149: 237,300 m² (23.73 ha, 58.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1618149.md - Parcel 1649036: 142,052 m² (14.21 ha, 35.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1649036.md - Parcel 1599210: 102,814 m² (10.28 ha, 25.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599210.md - Parcel 4862907: 78,715 m² (7.87 ha, 19.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4862907.md - Parcel 1602457: 35,080 m² (3.51 ha, 8.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602457.md - Parcel 1598423: 28,963 m² (2.9 ha, 7.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1598423.md - Parcel 1638102: 26,778 m² (2.68 ha, 6.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1638102.md - Parcel 1589196: 16,254 m² (1.63 ha, 4.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589196.md - Parcel 1597909: 14,761 m² (1.48 ha, 3.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597909.md - Parcel 1590501: 8,804 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590501.md - Parcel 1606813: 5,793 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1606813.md - Parcel 1601668: 5,104 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601668.md - Parcel 1589337: 4,361 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589337.md - Parcel 2485568: 4,185 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2485568.md - Parcel 2485591: 4,084 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2485591.md - Parcel 1619685: 3,839 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619685.md - Parcel 1604283: 3,821 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604283.md - Parcel 1650760: 3,108 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650760.md - Parcel 1661828: 3,044 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1661828.md - Parcel 1608590: 2,909 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608590.md - Parcel 1603140: 2,584 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603140.md - Parcel 1618150: 2,325 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1618150.md - Parcel 1622381: 2,181 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622381.md - Parcel 1599860: 2,149 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599860.md - Parcel 1660783: 2,087 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1660783.md - Parcel 1605927: 1,974 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605927.md - Parcel 1660399: 1,894 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1660399.md - Parcel 1659456: 417 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1659456.md - Parcel 1658766: 330 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658766.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Garraunboy in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 10 applications, newest first. - 27 Apr 2025, Limerick County Council 2560373: Conditional. Permission. modifications to the previously permitted dwelling house extension granted under Planning Permission Reference no. 22/730. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560373/0 - 29 Mar 2025, Limerick County Council 2560259: N/a. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a new dwelling house, garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560259/0 - 22 Jan 2025, Limerick County Council 2560039: Conditional. Permission. a domestic garage beside existing dwelling house and associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560039/0 - 30 Sept 2024, Limerick County Council 2460975: N/a. Permission. a domestic garage beside existing dwelling house and associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460975/0 - 7 Mar 2023, Limerick County Council 2360130: Conditional. Permission. the development that will consist of: The demolition of 2 agricultural outbuildings, the demolition of the rear return and front annex of the existing cottage, the renovation of the existing cottage, the construction of a single storey and two storey extension, the construction of a garage, wastewater treatment system, site entrance and all ancillary site works above and below ground. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360130/0 - 23 Sept 2021, Limerick County Council 211323: Conditional. Permission. (a) the demolition of a single storey conservatory extension to rear, (b) the construction of a single storey extension to rear and single storey extension to front, (c) conversion of attached garage to habitable accommodation, (d) changes to existing roof profiles, (e) change of external finish from brick to render, (f) changes to existing window and door opes, comprising alterations to existing opes and forming new opes, to all four elevations at ground and first floor levels and (g) all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/211323/0 - 23 Nov 2020, Limerick County Council 207034: Conditional. Extension of duration. extension of duration for 15/987. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/207034/0 - 18 Mar 2020, Limerick County Council 20235: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a two storey dwelling house including the installation of an effluent treatment system, vehicular entrance access and associated site development works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/20235/0 - 23 Dec 2019, Limerick County Council 191292: Conditional. Retention. stables and other associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/191292/0 - 14 Mar 2019, Limerick County Council 19237: Conditional. Permission. the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house, front and side elevational changes, an amended entrance and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19237/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Adare Woodlands, site code 000429 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI021-070: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI021-070----. Westropp (1906-7, 220) recorded the following details about Garraunboy (Garrán Buí) Castle and bawn (LI021-070001-); 'Garranbuidhe (O'Donovan, O.S.L., 8, p. 250), "The yellow wood" (Fitzgerald, i., p. 253); locally the "Yellow garden." 1583 Hugh Wall, or Falltagh, of Dunmoylin, when he joined the rebellion, owned Garrenboye C[astle]. (Des. R., 69). 1615 Held by Ol[iver]. Stephenson, of Dunmoylin, and confirmed to Ric. his son (Inq. Chan., 15b and 24b; Pat. R.). Confiscated from his representatives, 1655 (C.S., p. 52). Fabric - The O.S.L. only note it as "a ruin on a plain." It is an oblong peel tower 30 feet [9.1m] by 46 feet [14m], outside. The main wing had four wooden floors covered by a stone vault; there is a skew-loop on the second floor opening at the north-west angle, and another on the third floor at the north-east. There are numerous ambries and ogee headed window-slits. The end wing has the usual spiral stair with doors to each story to the south-west, and five stories with small rooms to the south-east. The lower rooms and top story are under vaults. All the southern face and most of the side walls of this part are gone. The peel stands in a bawn 63 feet [19.2m] east and west, 82 feet [25m] north and south. The walls 3 feet [0.9m] at top, and battered out to 6 feet [1.8m] below. The south wall and south-west turret are levelled. Turrets with vaulted roofs and 12 feet [3.65m] diameter, inside, remain at the three other angles. The peel tower dates from about the middle of the fifteenth century'. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Richard Stephenson of Dunmoylan, an Irish Papist, was the owner of Garraunboy which contained 'a ruined castle & bawne' (Simington 1938, 293). Classified by Donnelly (1999, 22, 37) as a Type 1A tower house which consists of a castle where the; 'ground floor entrance to the building leads to an entrance lobby. To one side of the entrance lobby is a doorway leading to a spiral staircase set in a corner of the building. To the other side is a doorway leading into a small chamber - the subsidiary chamber. The entrance lobby provides a direct route of access through to the main chamber.' Castle and bawn described by Salter (2004, 83) as follows; 'The outer wall of the thick end wall of a five storey tower 14m long by 9m wide has fallen although the rest still stands high, with a vault over the fourth storey. Closely surrounding the tower are remains of a small rectangular bawn with four D-shaped flankers between 4m and 5m in external diameter. One still retains a vault and three gunloops'. See attached plan of castle taken from Westropp 1906-7. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 December 2020 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006. - LI021-070001: Bawn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI021-070001-. Westropp (1906-7, 220) recorded the following details about Garraunboy (Garrán Buí) Castle (LI021-070----) and bawn; 'The O.S.L. only note it as "a ruin on a plain." It is an oblong peel tower 30 feet [9.1m] by 46 feet [14m], outside. The main wing had four wooden floors covered by a stone vault; there is a skew-loop on the second floor opening at the north-west angle, and another on the third floor at the north-east. There are numerous ambries and ogee headed window-slits. The end wing has the usual spiral stair with doors to each story to the south-west, and five stories with small rooms to the south-east. The lower rooms and top story are under vaults. All the southern face and most of the side walls of this part are gone. The peel stands in a bawn 63 feet [19.2m] east and west, 82 feet [25m] north and south. The walls 3 feet [0.9m] at top, and battered out to 6 feet [1.8m] below. The south wall and south-west turret are levelled. Turrets with vaulted roofs and 12 feet [3.65m] diameter, inside, remain at the three other angles. The peel tower dates from about the middle of the fifteenth century'. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Richard Stephenson of Dunmoylan, an Irish Papist, was the owner of Garraunboy which contained 'a ruined castle & bawne' (Simington 1938, 293). Castle and bawn described by Salter (2004, 83) as follows; 'The outer wall of the thick end wall of a five storey tower 14m long by 9m wide has fallen although the rest still stands high, with a vault over the fourth storey. Closely surrounding the tower are remains of a small rectangular bawn with four D-shaped flankers between 4m and 5m in external diameter. One still retains a vault and three gunloops'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 December 2020 - LI021-170: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI021-170----. In gently undulating pasture, 80m N of a townland boundary with Boherbraddagh. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork (approx. 53m E-W; 42m N-S) bisected by a public road running N-S. Monument is visible as a very faint circular-shaped cropmark bisected by the public road on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 29/03/2012 See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 6 August 2020 Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garraunboy. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Garraunboy, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Garraunboy. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/garraunboy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/garraunboy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/garraunboy.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Garraunboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Baurnalicka: https://everytownland.com/limerick/baurnalicka.md - Boherbraddagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/boherbraddagh.md - Clonshire Beg: https://everytownland.com/limerick/clonshire-beg.md - Clonshire More: https://everytownland.com/limerick/clonshire-more.md - Coolballyshane: https://everytownland.com/limerick/coolballyshane.md - Kiltenan North: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kiltenan-north.md - Rower Beg: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rower-beg.md A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/garraunboy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/garraunboy