Garryncurry
Garryncurry is a townland in the civil parish of Kilbarron, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Garrán an Churraigh.
Parcel 524083
- Area
- 341,612 m² (34.16 ha, 84.41 acres)
- Buildings
- 5 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 749 m².
- 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
- Garryncurry
Planning applications on this parcel
22 Dec 2025Conditional
the construction of 2 no. poultry houses, service rooms, feed bins, collection tank, roof mounted solar panels, access roadway to the facility from existing farm roadway, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561355
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- TN009-025 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Situated on flat poorly drained land with a marsh immediately to the S. A natural spring well enclosed by a drystone wall (H 0.7m) enclosing a rectangular area (dims. 1.3m x 2.4m) at N, S and E with a stream flowing out from the well at W. No votive offerings were visible. According to local tradition local customs associated with the well died out approx. 30 years ago (FitzPatrick 1985b, 71). The site was described in the OS Name Books as St John's Well where local ceremonies were held to cure diseases especially those of the eye. Pattern day was held on the 24th of June which is St John's Day. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 72 ha
- 178 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 40,126 m² (4.01 ha, 9.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garryncurry, from 5,642 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres) to 341,612 m² (34.16 ha, 84.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Garryncurry 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
22 Dec 2025Conditional
the construction of 2 no. poultry houses, service rooms, feed bins, collection tank, roof mounted solar panels, access roadway to the facility from existing farm roadway, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561355
26 Jul 2021Conditional
to construct 1 no. free range poultry house, services rooms, feed bins, roof mounted solar panels, free range shelters, storage tank, soakaway, access road to the facility, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211087
27 Nov 2020Conditional
an agricultural shed for livestock with underground effluent storage tank, including associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201416
29 Oct 2020Conditional
to construct 2 no. poultry houses, services rooms, feed bins, collection tank, roof mounted solar panels, access roadway to the facility from the existing farm roadway, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201266
11 Apr 2017Conditional
retention of alterations and additions to previously approved permission reg. ref. no. 51/16696 consisting of (a) Conservatory, (b) Family room, (c) Modifications to fenestration, (d) Veranda together with landscaping and associated ancillary site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 17600368
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 Garryncurry.
Recorded monuments
- TN009-023 Enclosure
Description
Situated on high ground in an upland area with extensive views. A partially destroyed enclosure with an earth and stone bank surviving from NE through E to S where it survives as a field fence; elsewhere it is destroyed. Once an area of scrub and woodland but cleared in recent times with field clearance debris dumped on top of the surviving bank making it impossible to get dimensions. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN009-025 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Situated on flat poorly drained land with a marsh immediately to the S. A natural spring well enclosed by a drystone wall (H 0.7m) enclosing a rectangular area (dims. 1.3m x 2.4m) at N, S and E with a stream flowing out from the well at W. No votive offerings were visible. According to local tradition local customs associated with the well died out approx. 30 years ago (FitzPatrick 1985b, 71). The site was described in the OS Name Books as St John's Well where local ceremonies were held to cure diseases especially those of the eye. Pattern day was held on the 24th of June which is St John's Day. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN009-027 Enclosure
Description
Low rise of ground with no archaeological features visible at end of N-S ridge in undulating countryside. Natural rise of ground as described by Wheeler (1960) as a placed used for dumping field clearance and subsequently removed during land improvement scheme. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garryncurry.
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 Garryncurry, 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 Garryncurry.
- 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 Garryncurry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Garryncurry · Garrán an Churraigh
- Area
- 720,197 m² (72.02 ha, 177.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbarron, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Kilbarron, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 646 people lived in 248 households in the Kilbarron electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycolliton, Carrigagown South, Commons of Carney, Glenaviegh, Springmount
- Placenames
- Garryncurry 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.