Garryfine
Townland in the civil parish of Bruree, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick; in Irish Garraí Phaghain
- Area
- 414.7 ha
- 1,025 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 3,858 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garryfine, from 9 m² to 681,960 m² (68.2 ha, 168.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Garryfine in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
6 May 2025Conditional
existing 2 storey extension, constructed at rear of the dwelling house
Retention · Limerick County Council, 25144
29 Apr 2022Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22479
7 Apr 2022Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling house, site entrance, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22389
20 Dec 2019Conditional
construction of a dwelling and detached garage, installation of a treatment unit & polishing filter and carrying out of all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191285
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Garryfine.
Recorded monuments
- LI046-015 Ringfort - rath
Description
In gently undulating pasture. Circular area (c. 26m N-S; c. 25m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 1.5m). Inner bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.9m) is tree lined. Exterior bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.2m) is most prominent NW->NE but severely truncated by field boundary SW->NW, as is outer edge of fosse. Gap is banks at NW (Wth 0.7m) used by cattle accessing interior. Interior slopes down gently to S and is generally covered by overgrowth, particularly at N end. Just W-of-centre is oval hollow (3m N-S; 4.6m E-W; D 0.6m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI046-031 Earthwork
Description
In reclaimed pasture 50m SW of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ballinwillin. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible circular enclosure from aerial photographs taken by the ASI on 04/03/2006. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached ASI oblique aerial image and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 6 August 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garryfine.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Garryfine.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Garryfine with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Garryfine · Garraí Phaghain
- Area
- 4,147,388 m² (414.74 ha, 1,024.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Bruree, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Electoral division
- Colmanswell, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Colmanswell electoral division: 535 people in 202 households; 92% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinwillin, Ballyclogh Upper, Clashgortmore, Derraulin, Fort East, Fort Middle, Killacolla
- Placenames
- Garryfine on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. 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.