# Garreens, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Ballinrobe Ra), barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo; in Irish Na Garraíní.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 814,711 m² (81.47 ha, 201.32 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,680 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilcommon (Ballinrobe Ra), https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/kilcommon-ballinrobe-ra.md
- Barony: Kilmaine
- Electoral division: Coonard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34887
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 151759
- Centre: latitude 53.675084, longitude -9.070949 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garreens, from 877 m² to 298,108 m² (29.81 ha, 73.66 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 921819: 298,108 m² (29.81 ha, 73.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/921819.md
- Parcel 895589: 198,931 m² (19.89 ha, 49.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/895589.md
- Parcel 2529229: 141,170 m² (14.12 ha, 34.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2529229.md
- Parcel 1002946: 113,947 m² (11.39 ha, 28.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1002946.md
- Parcel 910264: 15,556 m² (1.56 ha, 3.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/910264.md
- Parcel 898356: 15,041 m² (1.5 ha, 3.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/898356.md
- Parcel 950963: 12,598 m² (1.26 ha, 3.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/950963.md
- Parcel 4291130: 8,703 m² (0.87 ha, 2.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4291130.md
- Parcel 954601: 6,680 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/954601.md
- Parcel 900600: 4,340 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/900600.md
- Parcel 962813: 3,621 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/962813.md
- Parcel 4165619: 2,222 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4165619.md
- Parcel 4645820: 2,207 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4645820.md
- Parcel 4716483: 1,987 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4716483.md
- Parcel 2529230: 1,888 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2529230.md
- Parcel 5224543: 1,886 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5224543.md
- Parcel 2529232: 877 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2529232.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

4 applications, newest first.

- 6 Aug 2026, Mayo County Council 2660628: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660628/0
- 30 Apr 2024, Mayo County Council 24134: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/24134/0
- 19 Aug 2021, Mayo County Council 21894: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/21894/0
- 16 Nov 2020, Mayo County Council 20871: Conditional. Retention. RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE AS BUILT TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/20871/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MA111-023: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA111-023----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA111-025----. 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

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)

- Gardenfield House, farm house, 1700–1814, Regional interest, registry number 31311106, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA&regno=31311106. 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.

## 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 Garreens, 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 Garreens.
- 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/mayo/garreens.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/garreens.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/garreens.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Garreens with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Caher: https://everytownland.com/mayo/caher-150521.md
- Clooneen: https://everytownland.com/mayo/clooneen-150967.md
- Knockalegan: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockalegan-152139.md
- Pollraddy: https://everytownland.com/mayo/pollraddy.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.

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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.

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