Garrangrena Lower

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrangrena Lower, from 69 m² to 134,446 m² (13.44 ha, 33.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Garrangrena Lower 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.

• 31 Jul 2026N/a

  as constructed shed/garage and all associated siteworks

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660755

• 3 Feb 2023Conditional

  (a) a single storey detached dwelling, (b)1 no detached storage shed, (c) 1 no detached structure (Kennel), with all associated site works including septic tank/percolation area, borewell and site entrance

  Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2322

• 20 Jul 2021N/a

  a bungalow dwelling and outbuildings as constructed and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 211045

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 Garrangrena Lower.

Recorded monuments

• TN028-069 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope of rising ground in a mountainous region. Depicted as a small circular enclosure on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. 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

• TN028-070001 Hillfort
  Description

  Situated on a hilltop in a mountainous area with a nearby ringfort (TN028-071----) to the E. A heather-covered hillfort (diam. 145m N-S) enclosed by a fosse (Wth 1m; D 0.2m), an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1m) and an outer fosse (Wth 1-3m; ext. D 0.3m) with a possible entrance gap (Wth 3m) at W. A field fence bisects the site on a N-S axis. There is no apparent attempt to flatten the interior - the natural slope of the hilltop is maintained. The hillfort was recently described in the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland as following; 'In commanding position surrounding domed summit of hilltop following natural contours of hill. Overlooking Moanamaddra Lough to E and Fishmoyne River to E and SE. Univallate for the entire circuit, the hillfort comprises two ditches with an intervening bank. The site has a total foot print of about 2.1ha. There is a possible entrance at the W comprising a simple 3m break in the enclosing elements. There are no other recorded entrance features. The ramparts survive well throughout its circuit. The interior is under blanket bog and heather. First map identification in second edition Ordnance Survey mapping.'(http://hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk/records/IR0710.html) 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. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 6 February 2020

• TN028-070002 Enclosure
  Description

  No surface remains visible of possible enclosure identified on aerial photograph (GSI S.88/9) to the E of the Hillfort. Doubtful antiquity. 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

• TN034-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a SW-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area. A circular area (diam. 60m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) reduced to a scarp in places with some traces of an external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.25m) and a possible entrance gap (Wth 2.5m) at SW. A laneway intersects the bank and fosse at W, with a forestry drain bisecting the site interior on a N-S axis. The area around the ringfort has been recently ploughed for forestry plantation. 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

• TN034-014 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a SSW-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area. Originally an oval-shaped enclosure (diam. 90m N-S; 40m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3-4.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1-1.5m) and outer fosse (Wth 2m; ext. D 0.5m) both of which survive from SSW through W to N only. The bank is depicted as surviving from SSW through W through N to E on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. 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 in the townland of Garrangrena Lower.

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 Garrangrena Lower, 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 high, 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 Garrangrena Lower.

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 Garrangrena Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Garrangrena Lower · Garrán Gréine Íochtarach

Area

1,676,998 m² (167.7 ha, 414.4 acres)

Civil parish

Glenkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Kilnamanagh Upper

Electoral division

Glenkeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

479 people lived in 165 households in the Glenkeen electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curraghfurnisha, Curraghglass, Glenkeen, Glennariesk, Gortnaboley, Knockanora, Springfield

Placenames

Garrangrena Lower 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.