Garrettstown

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrettstown, from 42 m² to 288,418 m² (28.84 ha, 71.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Garrettstown 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.

• 1 Dec 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse with services, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 23193

• 1 Oct 2019Conditional

  construction of a machinery shed and all other associated site works.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 19391

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 Garrettstown.

Recorded monuments

• CW001-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 D-shaped area (diam. c. 23m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2m), now very eroded. Entrance in straight side at NE. No visible surface traces of fosse shown on 1908 'OS 6-inch' map from S to W. Interior used as dump for granite boulders.

• CW003-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Circular, slightly raised area (diam. 25m; H 0.7m) enclosed by slightly defaced bank. No visible surface traces of fosse or entrance. Garden cuts into ringfort from NE-E-S.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garrettstown.

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 Garrettstown, about 1 in 5 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

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

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 Garrettstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Garrettstown · Baile Ghearailt

Area

1,997,157 m² (199.72 ha, 493.51 acres)

Civil parish

Rahill, and its townlands

Barony

Rathvilly

Electoral division

Rahill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

792 people lived in 272 households in the Rahill electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bough, Broughillstown, Maplestown, Rahill, Ricketstown, Ricketstown North, Ricketstown or Bettyfield

Placenames

Garrettstown 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.