Garryduff
Garryduff is a townland in the civil parish of Aghnamullen, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is An Garraí Dubh.
- Area
- 98.5 ha
- 243 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 20,186 m² (2.02 ha, 4.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garryduff, from 20 m² to 78,732 m² (7.87 ha, 19.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Garryduff 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
8 Apr 2026Conditional
permission to retain as built dormer bungalow, basement garage/store/playroom and car port, existing filter unit and percolation area, existing exit on to public road and all associated works. Previous Ref 98/617 and 01/165
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2629
3 Mar 2021N/a
permission for development consisting of to reposition poultry unit and associated site works granted permission planning ref 19/51
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2197
6 Feb 2019Conditional
Permission to erect a poultry unit, meal bin, holding tank and associated works and exit on to public road by way of existing laneway. Significant Further information relates to the installation of a larger holding tank, silt trap for soiled waters from concrete apron and a nutrient management assessment.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 1951
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 Garryduff.
Recorded monuments
- MO024-028 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated at the SE end of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40-45m) is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. This is a slightly raised grass-covered and circular area (diam. c. 28m) is defined by a slight scarp. A NW-SE field bank overlies the monument towards the perimeter at NE outside of which a bank (Wth c. 2m; H 0.75m) and a fosse (Wth 2m) survives. 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: 9 May 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garryduff.
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 Garryduff, about 1 in 20 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 Garryduff.
- 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 Garryduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Garryduff · An Garraí Dubh
- Area
- 984,921 m² (98.49 ha, 243.38 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, Cargaghbane, Carrickaldragh, Garrybane, Mullananalt
- Placenames
- Garryduff 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.