Gorraun

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorraun, from 738 m² to 348,958 m² (34.9 ha, 86.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Gorraun 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.

• 27 Sept 2024Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING SINGLE-STOREY REAR EXTENSION AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE-STOREY REAR EXTENSION TO THE COTTAGE, A (PROTECTED STRUCTURE -NIAH REF: 14944012), PLUS ALL ASSOCIATED INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND SITE DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING UPGRADE OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH A SECONDARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND NEW PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 24137

• 12 Sept 2024N/a

  THE DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING SINGLE -STOREY REAR EXTENSION AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE-STOREY REAR EXTENSION TO THE COTTAGE AT GORRAUN, CLOUGHJORDAN, CO. OFFALY, E53 DX20(PROTECTED STRUCTURE -- NIAH REF: 14944012), PLUS ASSOCIATED INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND SITE DEVELOPMENT.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 24125

• 14 Mar 2024Conditional

  demolition of a rear extension, renovations to an existing cottage, construction of a new single storey extension and installation of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460078

• 21 Jul 2021Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS THERETO

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21454

• 21 Jul 2020Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS THERETO

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20310

• 1 Jul 2020N/a

  RELOCATION OF PROPOSED SITE BOUNDARIES, RE-LOCATION OF AND CHANGE IN DESIGN OF PROPOSED TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARGAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND SITE ENTRANCE WHICH DIFFERS FROM PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING PERMISSION (FILE REF. 18/487)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20263

• 2 Nov 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS THERETO

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18487

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 Gorraun.

Recorded monuments

• OF044-014 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  The monument stands in a copse at the southern edge of a stretch of lowlying, marshy land and is overlooked from the S by higher ground. The surviving remains indicate the presence of a rectangular chamber deeply buried at the approximate centre of a substantial, subcircular, stony mound (diam. 11-12m; H 0.8m). The chamber (L 3.3m; Wth 1.5m), aligned roughly ESE-WNW, is represented by four set stones. An inward-leaning, somewhat gable-topped example marks the ESE end of the structure while a stone on the more northerly side of the chamber adjoins one end of the last, and another on the southern side which leans inwards, adjoins its opposite end. A second stone on the S side, just over 1m to the W, is taller than the other set stones. A large and now dislodged roofstone (L 3.2m; max. Wth 2.8m; T 0.3m) partly overlies the western end of the chamber. Another large stone lying prostrate and broken underneath the roofstone may have formed part of the structure as also may some of the sizable slabs lying on the mound. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 13 January 2010

Architectural heritage

• Springmount, miller's house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey miller's house, built c.1850, with lean-to single-storey porch to northern gable. Set within its own grounds with derelict mill to north. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and smooth rendered chimneystacks. Lean-to corrugated iron roof to rear porch. Roughcast rendered walls with tooled stone eaves course and replacement rainwater goods. Timber sash window with stone sills. Round-headed door opening with spoked timber fanlight and replacement timber panelled door with stone step. Square-headed door opening to porch with timber panelled door. Square-headed door opening to rear with new glazed timber doors. Ruinous two-storey outbuilding to rear with external stone steps to gable. Walled garden to south with random coursed walls, accessed from front site through timber battened door and from north through segmental-headed carriage arch opening. Derelict mill and yard to north. Circular-profile stone gate piers access garden to front site with wrought-iron gate. Circular-profile stone piers with wrought-iron gate access driveway to front site. Wrought-iron gate set between north gable of house and south gable of adjacent mill, accessing rear yard. Bridge straddling stream which cuts driveway, having roughly hewn voussoirs, no parapets and cobbles to surface. Square-profile rendered gate piers to road with wrought-iron gate and rendered caps.

• Springmount, mill (water), 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan six-bay three-storey mill, built c.1750, with outbuildings to east and mill wheel and mill race to north. Now derelict. Set within its own grounds with detached house to south. Roof is gone. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with some timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings with battened timber doors. Single- and two-storey outbuildings to north with pitched and lean-to corrugated iron roofs. Cobbled yards to front and rear site.

• Mill Farm, farm house, 1730–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular farmhouse, built c.1750, with single-storey extension to rear with single-storey outbuilding abutting west gable. Pitched replacement slate roof with replacement ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables and replacement rainwater goods. Pitched tiled roof to rear extension. Roughcast rendered wall. Timber sash window with vermiculated and fluted stucco surrounds to façade and painted sills. Timber casement window inserted to eastern gable. Square-headed door opening with vermiculated and fluted stucco surround and replacement glazed and panelled timber door. Stone and smooth rendered outbuildings abutting western gable with pitched and lean-to corrugated iron roofs. Roughcast rendered outbuilding to rear site with pitched slate roof. Two-bay corrugated-iron barrel-roofed barn to west. Wrought-iron pedestrian gates access orchard and yard to west of front garden. Rendered pedestrian gate piers to road with 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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Gorraun.

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 Gorraun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Gorraun · An Garrán

Area

1,033,240 m² (103.32 ha, 255.32 acres)

Civil parish

Templeharry, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Templeharry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Templeharry electoral division: 215 people in 86 households; 85% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brickanagh, Emmel East, Emmel West, Graffan, Knockbrack, Stonyacre (Co. Tipperary), Townfields (Co. Tipperary)

Placenames

Gorraun 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.