Garrymore

228 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrymore, from 62 m² to 355,587 m² (35.56 ha, 87.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Garrymore 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.

• 25 Mar 2021Conditional

  move the main site entrance from the edge of the site to the centre of the site's road frontage and close off the old entrance. The development will be of no greater contravention to the planning permission that was already granted for the existing entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21182

• 9 Mar 2021N/a

  move the main site entrance from the edge of the site to the centre of the site's road frontage and close off the old entrance. The development will be of no greater contravention to the planning permission that was already granted for the existing entrance

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21140

• 3 Mar 2021Conditional

  retain the following 1). existing rear/side extension to existing dwelling, 2). existing domestic garage, 3). existing domestic fuel/storage shed, 4). existing rear splayed entrance

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21128

• 9 Jun 2020Conditional

  retain front porch and entrance gate

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20276

• 26 May 2020N/a

  retain a ront porch and entrance gate

  Retention · Laois County Council, 20250

• 14 Nov 2019Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, septic tank treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19625

• 23 Nov 2017Conditional

  (a) retain and complete garage workshop. (b) retain the following: dry goods store, entrance, driveway and hard standing , clay mound, domestic garage as constructed and (c) PLANNING PERMISSION to reinstate pipe in existing drain and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17624

• 26 Jun 2017N/a

  (a) permission to retain and complete garage workshop. (b) retain the following: dry goods store, entrance, driveway and hard standing , clay mound, domestic garage as constructed and (c) planning permission to reinstate pipe in existing drain and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17333

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 Garrymore.

Recorded monuments

• LA003-006 Enclosure
  Description

  Shown on 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 25m). No surface remains visible. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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 Garrymore, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Garrymore · An Garraí Mór

Area

4,885,512 m² (488.55 ha, 1,207.24 acres)

Civil parish

Castlebrack, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

Garrymore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

264 people lived in 72 households in the Garrymore electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barranaghs (Co. Offaly), Clonaghadoo, Coolavoran Coolagh and Derrymullen, Cooltycanon (Co. Offaly), Dernacart, Forest Lower, Forest Upper, Kilcavan

Placenames

Garrymore 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.