Garrynderk North
Townland in the civil parish of Effin, barony of Coshma, Co. Limerick; in Irish Garraí na Deirce Thuaidh
- Area
- 202.7 ha
- 501 acres
- Land parcels
- 67
- registered freehold, median 2,800 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrynderk North, from 690 m² to 182,849 m² (18.28 ha, 45.18 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 Garrynderk North 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
24 Apr 2025Conditional
(i) Construction of new stables. Proposed stables to incorporate associated underground soiled water tank & ancillary external concrete (ii) Construct a roofed dungstead. The above development to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560361
11 May 2018Conditional
a domestic extension and conversion of existing garage to habitable space and all associated works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 18464
20 Jul 2017Conditional
Extension of Duration from Ref No: 11/925 (construction of a detached dwelling, garage, entrance, waste water treatment system and polishing filter and all ancillary site works)
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 177033
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 Garrynderk North.
Recorded monuments
- LI047-058 Enclosure
Description
In reclaimed pasture 17m E of a roadway that marks the townland boundary with Ballincolly. Enclosure (LI047-059----) lies 200m to N. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped area (dims. c. 34m N-S; 19m E-W) enclosed by a bank. Outline of scrub-covered monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 13 August 2021
- LI047-059 Barrow - unclassified
Description
In reclaimed pasture 45m E of a roadway that marks the townland boundary with Ballincolly. Enclosure (LI047-058----) lies 200m to S. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a scarp with fosse, external bank and outer fosse. Outline of overgrown monument is visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 13 August 2021
- LI047-060 Excavation - miscellaneous
Description
In pasture, 70m E of the townland boundary with Ballynagoul. Ringfort (LI047-063----) lies 195m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic mapping. Possible fulacht fiadh or isolated pit excavated in 1986 by Margaret Gowen on the Bruff-Mallow gas pipeline where the monument was listed as site 1/5/2 (Gowen 1988, 179). Monument has been fully excavated and is not visible on Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 September 2021
- LI047-061 Enclosure
Description
In reclaimed pasture 45m E of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ballynagoul. Moated site (LI047-064----) lies 300m to SE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 18m) enclosed by a with fosse and external scarp from NW-N-E. Outline of overgrown monument is visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 13 August 2021
- LI047-062001 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture 210m E of the townland boundary with Ballynagoul and 10m W of a stream. Excavated hearth (LI047-062002-) lies 5m to SW, ringfort (LI047-063----) lies 110m to SE and moated site (LI047- 064---) 165m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic mapping. Fulacht fiadh excavated in 1986 by Margaret Gowen on the Bruff-Mallow gas pipeline where the monument was listed as site 1/5/4 (Gowen 1988, 179). Monument has been fully excavated and is not visible on Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 27 August 2021
- LI047-062002 Excavation - miscellaneous
Description
In pasture 200m E of the townland boundary with Ballynagoul and 10m W of a stream. Excavated fulacht fiadh (LI047-062001-) lies 5m to NE, ringfort (LI047-063----) lies 100m to SE and moated site (LI047- 064---) 150m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic mapping. Hearth excavated in 1986 by Margaret Gowen on the Bruff-Mallow gas pipeline where the monument was listed in Appendix 1 as site 1/5/5 (Gowen 1988, 179). According to Gowen; ‘The remains may represent a relatively modern hearth. There were no finds and no inclusions in the pit fill’. Monument has been fully excavated and is not visible on Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 27 August 2021
- LI047-063 Ringfort - rath
Description
In reclaimed pasture 75m E of a watercourse and 280m E of a roadway that marks the townland boundary with Ballynagoul. Moated site (LI047-064----) lies 90m to NE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 31m) enclosed by a bank, fosse, scarp, fosse and outer bank. A causewayed gap at E appears to be the original entrance feature while there is a second gap at S in the outer bank. Intersected at NE by field boundary running NW-SE. Outline of tree-covered monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 13 August 2021
- LI047-064 Moated site
Description
In reclaimed pasture 75m W of railway track. Bivallate Ringfort (LI047-063----) lies 90m to SW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (dims. c. 16m NE-SW; 22m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank with wide berm and external bank from SE-W-NE reduced to a scarp elsewhere, forms field boundary wall from NE-S. Barry (1981, 84) listed the monument as a possible moated site no. 31. Outline of shrub-covered monument is visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 13 August 2021
- LI047-065 Earthwork
Description
In pasture 150m W of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Effin and 100m E of a railway track. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area (dims. c. 40m N-S; 38m NW-SE) defined by a scarp. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by a fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Visible as faint cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage taken 01/04/2021 where it is truncated at N and S by field boundary running N-S. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 12 August 2021
Architectural heritage
- Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding gable-fronted barn style Roman Catholic church, built in 1814, comprising breakfront and porch to front (east) elevation, four-bay nave and two-bay single-storey sacristy to rear (west) elevation. Pitched artificial slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, limestone cross finial. Render bracketed eaves course to south elevation. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having render quoins and plinth course. Buttresses to north elevation and tooled limestone font with chamfered surround to east elevation. Pointed arch openings with timber Y-tracery stained glass windows and concrete sills. Square-headed opening to porch having double-leaf timber battened doors. Timber scissors truss roof to interior. Timber gallery with trefoil-headed balustrade to east. Rubble limestone walls to north. Pair of square-profile lined-and-ruled rendered piers to south having carved limestone cap, double-leaf cast-iron gates and rendered lined-and-ruled walls.
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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_938 (ZIP).
- 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 Garrynderk North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Garrynderk North · Garraí na Deirce Thuaidh
- Area
- 2,027,382 m² (202.74 ha, 500.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Effin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshma
- Electoral division
- Tobernea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tobernea electoral division: 694 people in 238 households; 92% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincolly, Ballynagoul, Effin, Garrynderk South, Mountblakeney
- Placenames
- Garrynderk North 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.