Garreens

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garreens, from 877 m² to 298,108 m² (29.81 ha, 73.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Garreens 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.

• 6 Aug 2026Conditional

  The development consists of the construction of a new dwelling house (202.15m2), a new domestic garage (48.16m2) and new wastewater treatment system together with all associated ancillary site works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660628

• 30 Apr 2024Conditional

  retain existing foundation for dwelling house granted under P03/50, change of house type to that granted under P03/50, retain existing garage foundations on site and construct garage, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24134

• 19 Aug 2021N/a

  RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE FOUNDATION, SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA AND COMPLETED SITE WORKS AS PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER P03/50, CHANGE OF HOUSE PLANS TO WHAT WAS PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER P03/50 AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENTS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21894

• 16 Nov 2020Conditional

  RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE AS BUILT TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES.

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 20871

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Garreens.

Recorded monuments

• MA111-023 Enclosure
  Description

  Immediately S of a farmstead in an area of gently undulating grassland. A roughly oval embanked enclosure (c. 22-25m N−S; c. 35m E−W) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; an arc of hachuring curving NW−SE is shown on the 1930 edition. This enclosure has been levelled and subsumed into a garden and farmyard associated with the farmstead. There is no visible trace at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 December 2022

• MA111-025 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on a natural rise in gently undulating limestone terrain, with good views in all directions. A field drain skirts the SE−SW side of the rise. The Robe River is c. 500m to N. Not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. Recorded in an aerial photograph (SMR file: GSI M 26-7; Roll 205, pr. 5). An oblong or subrectangular area (36.8m NW−SE; 16m NE−SW) enclosed by a low earth and stone bank (Wth 2.3m (top 1.3m); int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.55m, at NW). The sod-covered, gravelly bank incorporates occasion large stones. At SE it back up against a low natural rise. There is a broad break (Wth 7.4m) in the bank at NE and several smaller breaks/eroded sections, especially along the S−SW arc. A shallow depression/fosse (Wth 1.1m) is visible on the inner edge of the bank on the NW half. The interior is level in the NW half, but slopes down from centre to SE. It has an uneven surface, covered in tussocky grass. A concentration of loose stones lies on the surface at S. The rise on which the enclosure is located reaches a height of c. 1.5m above surrounding ground level at NE and c. 2m at SW. The enclosure encompasses most of the top of rise, largely conforming to its natural contours. The slope of the rise extends beyond the enclosure for several meters to SE and S, and is cut by several small quarry pits (8-10m across). The nature and date of this enclosure is uncertain. It does not seem to be a rath. It might be relatively late in date, possibly a cultivation plot utilising the higher, drier ground provided by the natural rise, however, no cultivation ridges are visible. Prior to modern drainage the ground surrounding the natural rise would have been wet. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 December 2022

Architectural heritage

• Gardenfield House, farm house, 1700–1814 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three- or five-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1814[?], on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1911. Renovated, 2003/4. Replacement pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired cement rendered central chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, timber bargeboards to gables, and uPVC rainwater goods on rendered cut-limestone eaves. Creeper-covered lime rendered or roughcast walls. Segmental-headed central door opening with tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround[?] framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with hedge boundary to perimeter centred on wrought iron gate.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Garreens, about 1 in 5 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.

No address of the register names Garreens with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Garreens · Na Garraíní

Area

814,711 m² (81.47 ha, 201.32 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Ballinrobe Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Coonard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

306 people lived in 120 households in the Coonard electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caher, Clooneen, Knockalegan, Pollraddy

Placenames

Garreens 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.