Granafallow

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Granafallow, from 123 m² to 221,217 m² (22.12 ha, 54.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Granafallow 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.

• 29 Jan 2026Conditional

  retain an office and staff facilities, and the permission for the installation of a new wastewater treatment system with a packaged tertiary treatment system and attenuation layer and the decommissioning of existing septic tank. The area to be retained is circa 0.42 hectares and includes all ancillary site works and services.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660038

• 22 Jan 2026N/a

  retain structures at Granafallow, Abbeyleix, Co. Laois. The development consists of the retention of an office and staff facilities, the installation of a new wastewater treatment system with a packaged tertiary treatment system and attenuation layer and the decommissioning of existing septic tank. The area to be retained is circa 0.42 hectares and includes all ancillary site works and services.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660026

• 28 Sept 2024Conditional

  erect a 24m lattice telecommunications support structure on a 1.2 metre high raised foundation (providing an overall height of 25.2 metres) together with associated antennas and dishes and to remove the existing 15 metre lattice telecommunications structure. The proposed development is all enclosed within an existing compound

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460567

• 13 May 2022Conditional

  demolish existing derelict dwelling house and shed, to construct new single storey dwelling house, upgrade existing entrance, new septic tank and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22295

• 17 Nov 2021Conditional

  retain an existing domestic workshop/store/carport and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21778

• 5 Mar 2018Conditional

  develop a 5ha extension to an existing quarry for the open cut extraction of 100,000m3/year of sand and gravel over a 10 year period. An Environment Impact Statement and a Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority in connection with the application

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18124

• 26 Feb 2018N/a

  a 5ha extension to an existing quarry for the open cut extraction of 100,000m3/year of sand and gravel over a 10 year period. An Environment Impact Statement and a Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority in connection with the application

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18109

• 1 Aug 2017N/a

  extend a 5ha extension to an existing quarry for the open cut extraction of 100,000m3/year of sand and gravl over a 10 year peroid. An NIS will be submitted to the planning authority in connection with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17409

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
• Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Nore/Abbeyleix Woods Complex 002076

Recorded monuments

• LA029-074 Bridge
  Description

  Bridge of 'Castle Coote' now Watercastle (LA029-024----) Bridge clearly marked on the 1563 map of Leix and Offaly. Bridge was widened after 1841 and shown on 1841 map as a bridge located on the Durrow-Abbeyleix section of the Old Mail Coach Road. When the bridge was widened in the nineteenth century the original pre 1563 bridge survived (Simington and O'Keeffe 1991, 175-6). Originally spanning the River Nore, now on dry land on W bank as a result of diverting the course of the river. The 1841 edition OS 6 inch map depicts three cutwaters on each side of the bridge, indicating four arch-spans. Four overgrown arches survive, a central pair with two others, one on each side, some distance away. The arch rings on the upriver side appear to be original , those downriver indicate the bridge was widened. One arch with evidence of punching on some stones indicate a pre-1563 date (Simington and O'Keeffe 1991, 175-6). Most of the present bridge dates from the nineteenth century, it is possible that one or two of the arches of the earlier bridge were retained in the design of the upstanding nineteenth century bridge. 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 Granafallow.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Granafallow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Granafallow · Garrán na Faille

Area

869,662 m² (86.97 ha, 214.9 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeyleix, and its townlands

Barony

Cullenagh

Electoral division

Abbeyleix, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Abbeyleix electoral division: 2,979 people in 1,145 households; 74% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeyleix Demesne, Baggottspark, Brandra, Clonkeen, Curraghacronacon, Killamuck, Watercastle

Placenames

Granafallow 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.