Garrynisk
Garrynisk is a townland in the civil parish of Castleellis, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Garraí an Uisce.
Parcel 387512
- Area
- 17,099 m² (1.71 ha, 4.23 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Garrynisk
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3127 (ZIP).
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 107.2 ha
- 265 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 3,940 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrynisk, from 18 m² to 238,231 m² (23.82 ha, 58.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Garrynisk 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 May 2026N/a
Permission for retention for a single-storey timber garden structure with
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260547
31 May 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house and a domestic garage/store
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220735
16 May 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a single storey dwelling, garage and all asso
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220639
4 Jan 2022Refused
Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house and a domestic garage/store and
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220003
7 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention is sought for a domestic garage/store as built on site
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210500
21 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house and a domestic garage/ store and a
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201222
12 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwellinghouse, garage and all
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20201170
7 May 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the rpoposed erection of a two-storey fully serviced dwelling hou
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200491
8 Apr 2020N/a
Permission for erection of an independent living unit and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200426
2 Mar 2020N/a
Permission for erection of an independent living unit and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200248
29 Oct 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN INDEPENDENT LIVING UNIT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WO
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191449
11 Jul 2016Granted (conditional)
ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER WITH AL
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160792
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Garrynisk.
Recorded monuments
- WX027-041 Moated site
Description
Marked faintly as a rectangular feature (dims. c. 60m NW-SE; c. 50m NE-SW) described as the site of a fort on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is located on a level landscape. This is a rectangular, grass-covered area (dims. 34m NE-SW; 33m NW-SE) defined by back-filled moats at NW and SE (Wth 13m; D 0.6m), a low scarp at SW and a wide field drain at NE. (Barry 1977, 220, WX 60) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2012
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. Renovated, ----. Reroofed, ----. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped oat thatch roof overhanging flat corrugated-iron roofs to window openings to dormer attic with exposed stretchers to ridge having exposed steel or wire scallops, red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Replacement cement rendered battered walls with cement rendered battered buttresses to front (south) elevation; limewashed lime rendered surface finish to rear (north) elevation. Hipped square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights. Square-headed flanking window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing replacement timber casement windows with six-over-six timber sash windows to rear (north) elevation having part exposed sash boxes. Set in own grounds.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Garrynisk, about 1 in 20 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3127 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Garrynisk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Garrynisk · Garraí an Uisce
- Area
- 1,072,097 m² (107.21 ha, 264.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleellis, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Castle Ellis, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,284 people lived in 454 households in the Castle Ellis electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Askasilla, Ballyhought, Ballyroe (Annesley), Ballyroe (Nunn), Garryniskbeg, Garryvaddenbeg, Killahard, Mahanagh, Toberbeg
- Placenames
- Garrynisk 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.