Garryvarren

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garryvarren, from 240 m² to 371,690 m² (37.17 ha, 91.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Garryvarren 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.

• 24 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of a garage and a hobby shed together with all associ

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251371

• 7 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250142

• 30 Jan 2025N/a

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250104

• 15 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage with

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240285

• 3 Feb 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention for (A) domestic garage (B) an attic conversion carried

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230099

• 9 May 2022N/a

  Permission for retention for A) a domestic garage and B) an attic conversion

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220608

• 22 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the change of house type from that granted under Planning applica

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220536

• 30 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced new dwelling house.

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210657

• 18 Jun 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage with associat

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200655

• 4 May 2018Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION PERMISSION OF EXTENSIONS/ ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING FULLY SERVICED DETAC

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180593

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 Garryvarren.

Recorded monuments

• WX032-011 Moated site
  Description

  Marked as a rectangular embanked or moated enclosure (ext. dims. c. 55m E-W; c. 45m N-S) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and located on a slight S-facing slope with the NE-SW River Sow c. 300m to the NW. This is a rectangular area in mixed woodland (dims. 35m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a flat bottomed moat at W (Wth 7.5m; D 1.4m) and E (Wth 13m; D 1m), a laneway and farm building at N and a scarp (H 1.2m) at S. (Barry 1977, 221, WX65) 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: 31 August, 2012

• WX032-012 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked faintly as a large circular feature (diam. c. 70-75m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6 inch map and situated on a slight rise in an undulating landscape. It is not visible at ground level in a harvested cereal crop and the rise may be the feature mapped. 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: 31 August, 2012

• WX032-062 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a slight SW-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 20m) defined by a wide fosse (Wth c. 3-4m) is visible only on Apple Maps (c. 2018). It is not recorded on any other aerial images, and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 October 2021

Architectural heritage

• Wilmount House, farm house, 1720–1725 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey double-pile farmhouse, built 1724, on a T-shaped centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor. "Improved", pre-1903, producing present composition. Vacated, 2009. Now disused. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, slightly sproketed or swept eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast slate hung battered wall to front (east) elevation; rendered, ruled and lined surface finish to side elevations with limewashed fine roughcast surface finish to rear (west) elevation. Elliptical-headed central door opening into farmhouse, doorcase with "Acanthus"-detailed engaged columns supporting shallow cornice on "Anthemion"-detailed fluted frieze, and concealed dressings having concave reveals framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed flanking window openings in tripartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing nine-over-six timber sash windows without horns having three-over-two sidelights. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing four-over-eight timber sash windows without horns. Square-headed window openings to rear (west) elevation with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing three-over-six (ground floor) or six-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in unkempt grounds with roughcast piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting arrow head-detailed wrought iron double gates.

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 Garryvarren, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Garryvarren, Ballymurn6 sales

Name

Garryvarren · Garraí Bharún

Area

1,493,763 m² (149.38 ha, 369.12 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmallock, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen South

Electoral division

Kilmallock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,550 people lived in 511 households in the Kilmallock electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballysilla, Clonnasheeoge, Coolakip, Coole, Killelan, Lacken, Mill Lands, Mullanagower

Placenames

Garryvarren 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.