Guernal

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Guernal, from 337 m² to 382,142 m² (38.21 ha, 94.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Guernal 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Guernal in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Guernal.

Recorded monuments

• OF022-020001 Church
  Description

  Situated on the floodplains of the Little river in undulating countryside with graveyard (OF022-021----) to the E and holy well (OF022-022----) to the S. Only the grass covered wall footings of a small church survive (ext. dims. 15m E-W; 8.6m N-S; wall T 1.3m) with evidence of large limestone boulders used in the wall construction. No architectural features visible. Possible church of early medieval date. 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: 23 May 2011

• OF022-020002 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Situated on the floodplains of the Little river in undulating countryside with graveyard (OF022-021----) to the E and holy well (OF022-022----) to the S. Only the grass covered wall footings of a small church survive (OF022-020001-) with evidence of large limestone boulders used in the wall construction. Unable to locate any traces of a bullaun stone in the vicinity of the church that was shown to the SMR office fieldworkers by a local landowner in 1988. 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: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Guernal.

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Guernal.

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.

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

Name

Guernal · Grinneall

Area

1,144,113 m² (114.41 ha, 282.72 acres)

Civil parish

Gallen, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Shannonharbour, the unit of the census

Census 2022

363 people lived in 132 households in the Shannonharbour electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Attinkee, Balliver, Carrick, Kilcamin, Tonlemone

Placenames

Guernal 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.