Garravin

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garravin, from 243 m² to 668,382 m² (66.84 ha, 165.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Garravin 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.

• 19 Dec 2024Refused

  the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, recessed site entrance, wastewater treatment system with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2461280

• 26 Jan 2023Refused

  the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, recessed site entrance, wastewater treatment system with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2346

• 14 Dec 2017Conditional

  (I) garage conversion, (ii) conversion of attic for storage use including 3 no. rooflights and (iii) minor elevational changes to those granted under planning ref 02/1704

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 171175

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 Garravin.

Recorded monuments

• LI024-060 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In wet pasture, on slight N-facing slope. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as an oval-shaped area (24m N-S; 21m E-W) defined by an inner fosse, an outer bank, an outer fosse and the possible remains of a second outer bank with possible entrance (overall Wth 6m; base Wth 2m) at NNE. The inner fosse (Wth 10.25m; D 0.3m) is best defined from SW-W and from NNE-ENE. The remains of an outer bank (Wth 11.25m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.75m) are visible from SW-W-N-NE and appear to be truncated by a curvilinear drain and field boundary from ENE-E-S-SW. An outer fosse (Wth 8.25m; D 0.2m) is visible from SW-W-N-NE. The possible remains of a second outer bank are visible from NNW-N-NNE. The interior is grass covered and slightly uneven. A shallow drainage channel extends from the monument at NE in a northerly direction. The monument is respected by a field boundary from ENE-E-S-SW, which also forms a townland boundary from SE-S-SW. Monument is visible as a partially tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. See attached sketch plan and cross-sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 17 July 2020

• LI024-282 Moated site
  Description

  In low-lying, improved pasture cut by land drains and watercourses, in the valley of the Reask River 200m to S of a townland boundary with Reask. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as a subrectangular-shaped cropmark on oblique aerial photos (ASIAP, 118, 2 & 5) taken 23/08/2000. Monument is visible as a large subrectangular-shaped bivallate enclosure (70m N-S; 77m E-W) on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. Possible field system in field to N of moated site. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 and ASI oblique aerial images taken 23/08/2000. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 12 October 2020

• LI024-297 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In level, wet pasture, 135m NE of a townland boundary with Brackloon. A ring-barrow (LI024-060----) lies 170m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as an oval-shaped area (5.25m NNE-SSW; 7m WNW-ESE) defined by a scarp (Wth 1.5-1.8m; H 0.35-0.45m). The interior is grass covered. A dry land drain to N which runs WNW-ESE is channelled toward a pond 40m to WNW. Monument is visible as an oval-shaped earthwork on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 14 October 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Garravin, about 1 in 5 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Garravin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Garravin · An Gearrmhuine

Area

1,009,767 m² (100.98 ha, 249.52 acres)

Civil parish

Tuoghcluggin, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Oola, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,119 people lived in 427 households in the Oola electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvalode, Brackloon, Cluggin, Garryfrask, Gortnakistin, Reask

Placenames

Garravin 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.