Garrans

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrans, from 175 m² to 249,633 m² (24.96 ha, 61.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Garrans 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.

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Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• LA014-056 Mass-house
  Description

  Unlocated seventeenth century Mass House with townland, described in the History of Queens County as a place where Fr. Roger Moore, popish priest of Moyann, Oghmalt, Tymogue , Corclone and Fossy who resided at Garrans and the site of his Mass-house in this townland is still pointed out at a place called Chapel Hill, where in all probability Mass had been offered up in the open air before the Mass-house came into being. He was ordained a priest at Liege in 1662, and became P.P. ten years later (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1914, vol. 2, 593). Pre-development testing by Dominic Delany under licence no. 93E0051, at a potential archaeological site took place over a three-day period in April. The site is located in a forested area which was being cleared in advance of replanting. The first edition of the OS 6-inch map for Co. Laois (1841, Sheet No. 14) has the name 'Chapel Hill' at the south end of the forest. There is also a large L-shaped building shown here. This was pinpointed as the possible location of the late 17th-century Mass-house at Garrans, which is mentioned in the historical record. A spread of redeposited soil and crushed building material was located during trial trenching at the site. This feature covered an area measuring approximately 18m north-south x 6m-10m east-west and it had an average depth of 0.15m. The finds from this disturbed context consisted mainly of sherds of 18th/19th-century pottery. This feature undoubtedly represents the site of the L-shaped building. The nature of the surviving evidence indicates that this structure was demolished and the building materials removed, probably prior to planting in the late 19th century. There was no evidence to suggest that this was the site of the chapel. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA014-088 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB90.BL.16) shows cropmark of an incomplete enclosure defined by a fosse. First recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1990. Enclosure cut by modern road. Rather faint image; could be a natural feature. Note gravel working in adjacent field on OSI 2005 orthophotos. The above report has been compiled by Dr. G.F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of this report: 03 December 2009 Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 August 2010

• LA014-089 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB90.BL.18) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure with an incomplete rectilinear annexe, both defined by a fosse. First recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1990. Although this coincides with a patch of trees on the OS 6-inch map (and also the First Edition), it does appear archaeological. However, it may represent demesne landscaping. The above report has been compiled by Dr. G.F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of this report: 03 December 2009 Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Garrans, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Garrans with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Garrans · Na Garráin

Area

1,902,764 m² (190.28 ha, 470.18 acres)

Civil parish

Curraclone, and its townlands

Barony

Stradbally

Electoral division

Curraclone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

269 people lived in 85 households in the Curraclone electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykilcavan, Ballyrider, Brockley Park, Inch, Kilrory, Knocknambraher, Knockphilip, Mill Land, Rathmore

Placenames

Garrans 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.