Garrybane
Garrybane is a townland in the civil parish of Aghnamullen, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is An Garraí Bán.
- Area
- 65.4 ha
- 162 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 19,220 m² (1.92 ha, 4.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrybane, from 80 m² to 119,904 m² (11.99 ha, 29.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Garrybane 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
29 Jul 2025Conditional
permission to erect a bungalow, insert a filter unit and percolation area and open new entrance on to laneway that connects to public road and all associated works (previous Pl Ref: 24/110)
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2559
19 Feb 2025Conditional
permission for the development consist of an eight bay agricultural slatted cubicle shed with an underground slurry storage tank and all associated site development works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2512
27 Nov 2024Refused
permission to erect a bungalow, insert a filter unit and percolation area and open new entrance on to laneway that connects to public road and all associated works, Significant Further Information relates to submitted, Amended Site Layout map, Site Improvement report
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 24110
16 Oct 2024N/a
permission to erect a bungalow, insert a filter unit and percolation area and open new entrance on to laneway that connects to public road and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2494
17 Aug 2022Conditional
permission consisting of the erection of a domestic garage and change position of entrance on to public road. (previous planning ref: 05/1293, 21/194)
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22364
14 Apr 2021Conditional
Permission to complete bungalow, insert filter unit & percolation area and exit onto public road.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21194
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 Garrybane.
Recorded monuments
- MO023-036 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a small NE-SW spur. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 41.5m E-W; 39.5m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank and outer fosse. The entrance (Wth of base 2.6m) is at SE but there is no causeway. A NW-SE field bank skirts the outer edge of the fosse NE-E. 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: 19 June 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garrybane.
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 Garrybane, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Garrybane.
- 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 Garrybane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Garrybane · An Garraí Bán
- Area
- 654,187 m² (65.42 ha, 161.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghnamullen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Creeve, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 705 people lived in 230 households in the Creeve electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghnaskew, Carrickaldragh, Cooltrim, Drumgor, Garryduff, Lisdrumcleve
- Placenames
- Garrybane 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.