Garrafine (Trench)

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrafine (Trench), from 2,325 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 146,536 m² (14.65 ha, 36.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Garrafine (Trench) 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.

• 13 Jan 2022Conditional

  for construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works 211.5 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260009

• 22 Jun 2021Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/fuel shed to include all associated site works at the above location. Gross floor space of proposed works: 151.64sqm (House) and 53.94 (Garage/ fuel shed)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211103

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 Garrafine (Trench).

Recorded monuments

• GA060-087 Quarry
  Description

  In pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be an overgrown hollow, probably a disused sand or gravel pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 July 2014

• GA060-088 Quarry
  Description

  In pastureland A hachured feature marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a densely overgrown disused gravel pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 July 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garrafine (Trench).

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 Garrafine (Trench), 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Garrafine (Trench).

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 Garrafine (Trench) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Garrafine (Trench) · Gairfrian (Trench)

Area

919,230 m² (91.92 ha, 227.15 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacward, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Annagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

383 people lived in 136 households in the Annagh electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintleva, Garrafine, Garrafine (Ussher), Kinclare, Pallas, Scarreth

Placenames

Garrafine (Trench) 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.