Garrynlease
Garrynlease is a townland in the civil parish of Kilfinnane, barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Garraí an Léisigh.
- Area
- 50.8 ha
- 125 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 3,557 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrynlease, from 599 m² to 165,246 m² (16.52 ha, 40.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Garrynlease 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
22 Jul 2025Conditional
the construction of a new two storey dwelling and garage, with new entrance and driveway from private road plus new wastewater treatment system and well, with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560718
1 Apr 2022Conditional
the construction of a two storey dwelling house, regular septic tank and percolation area, double garage and garden store with loft and greenhouse attached. New entrance and driveway from private road and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22362
10 Nov 2021Conditional
the construction of single storey extensions to the side and rear of our existing dwellinghouse, refurbishment and alterations of existing dwellinghouse, demolition of existing single storey extension to rear of existing dwellinghouse and all associated site works including new wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter
Permission · Limerick County Council, 211553
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 Garrynlease.
Recorded monuments
- LI048-060 Burial mound
Description
In pasture, 61m E of townland boundary with Kilfinnane. A possible standing stone (LI048-120----) lies 170m to W and a barrow (LI048-060----) 75m to SW. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map or the 1897 OSi 25-inch map. Depicted on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map as a small sub-circular shaped mound (dims. c. 12m NW-SE; 6m NE-SW). Monument visible as a circular-shaped earthwork in an area of extensive quarrying on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 19/03/2015. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 18 August 2021
- LI048-128 Standing stone
Description
In flat pasture with view of Palatine Hill (78 ft. OD) 380m to SE. Standing stone rectangular in plan with tapering top which was identified by Billy O'Brien of Kilfinnane. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by James and Billy O'Brien Date of upload: 21 February 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garrynlease.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Garrynlease, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Garrynlease with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Garrynlease · Garraí an Léisigh
- Area
- 507,827 m² (50.78 ha, 125.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfinnane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshlea
- Electoral division
- Kilfinnane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,147 people lived in 474 households in the Kilfinnane electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyriggin, Bosnetstown, Kilfinnane, Moorestown
- Placenames
- Garrynlease 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.