Garvagh

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garvagh, from 165 m² to 74,110 m² (7.41 ha, 18.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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 Garvagh 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.

• 5 Apr 2017Conditional

  for construction of an Indoor Horse Riding Arena and associated site development works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 1762

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 Garvagh.

Recorded monuments

• LE028-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying position at the W foot of Sheebeg Hill. Visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: H, 76-7). This is a grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 21m) defined by an earthen bank, which is best preserved (Wth 3m; H 0.25m) W-N, and slight traces of a fosse visible as a band of reeds. The original entrance is not identified. A rectangular enclosure (dims 21m N-S; 12m E-W), defined by an earth and stone bank (H 0.6m), is just to the NW and is probably a small field. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Garvagh, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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 Garvagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Garvagh · Garbhach

Area

276,458 m² (27.65 ha, 68.31 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltubbrid, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Gortnagullion, the unit of the census

Census 2022

308 people lived in 114 households in the Gortnagullion electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Letterfine, Mullaghboy, Seltan (McDonald), Shanraw, Sheebeg

Placenames

Garvagh 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.