Garran

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garran, from 2,768 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres) to 160,740 m² (16.07 ha, 39.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Garran 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.

• 12 Nov 2019Refused

  Permission to construct 1 no. poultry house and 1 no. manure/general purpose store together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s) and site works (to include new/upgraded site entrance)

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19505

• 19 Jul 2019Refused

  permission to construct 1 no. poultry house and 1 no. manure/general purpose store together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)) and site works (to include new/upgraded site entrance) associated with the above development.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19335

• 6 Jun 2018Refused

  Permission to erect a poultry unit, insert a holding tank and meal bins and all associated works and exit onto public road.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18246

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 Garran.

Recorded monuments

• MO012-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the SE-facing slope of a small NE-SW drumlin ridge. This feature is depicted as a small oval copse (dims c. 35m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a small D-shaped field on the 1907 edition. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 25m E-W; 20m N-S) that slopes down to the E defined by a scarp (at S: Wth 1.6m; H 0.9m) and hedge. There was evidence of a fosse (Wth of top 2.4m; D 0.2m) at N in 1942 (SMR file), but the original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 29 January 2018

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch railway bridge, built c.1860, carrying Portadown and Cavan Branch of Ulster Railway over River Finn. Outer arches dry. Segmental arches having rock-faced rusticated and margined stone voussoirs, cut-stone soffits, and with U-shaped cutwaters to central piers. Tapered projecting buttresses and curved wing walls to abutments to each elevation. Coursed rock-faced rusticated stone to spandrel walls, parapet walls, abutments and buttresses. Dressed limestone platbands at impost level and running over arch-rings. Dressed limestone coping to parapets and wing-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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 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 Garran.

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.

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

Name

Garran · An Garrán

Area

672,633 m² (67.26 ha, 166.21 acres)

Civil parish

Clones, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

St. Tierney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

St. Tierney electoral division: 390 people in 140 households; 86% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bullogbrean, Drumaddarainy, Drumcru (Renwick), Gransha More, Latgallan, Tircooney

Placenames

Garran 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.