Garryhiggin
Garryhiggin is a townland in the civil parish of Tubbridbritain, barony of Crannagh, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is Garraí Huigín.
Parcel 848135
- Area
- 185,665 m² (18.57 ha, 45.88 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 6 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
- Garryhiggin
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 2 recorded monuments.
- KK012-055001 Castle - tower house
Description
On a low rise at the junction of a valley and wide open plain to the W. There are very good views in all directions. The Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of 'Tubride' records John Grace Irish Papist as the proprietor of Garryhiggin in 1640 and states that there is, 'a castle and some cabbins at Garryhiggin'. According to O'Kelly 1969, 26), Graces's lands were forfeited in 1653 and granted to a Cromwellian captain, Charles Gore, who named his portion Goresgrove. A much modified four-storey tower house (dims. 6.5m N-S; 6m E-W) with base-batter and dressed quoins. A house, possibly 17th-century in date, though modified in the 18th/early 19th-century, now ruinous, was built onto the E side, at which time the floor levels of the tower house appear to have been modified, with doorways, windows and fireplaces inserted. There were outbuildings, also now ruinous, built up against the W side. The ground floor was filled with collapse when visited in 1987. Only the N and W walls appear to be original, the S wall being substantially rebuilt and the E wall heavily modified. The original spiral stair survives in the NW angle, as do the original doors leading from the stairs to the upper floors. Three surviving original windows in the N wall are single lights, flat and round-headed. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 June 2019
- KK012-055003 House - 17th century
Description
According to O'Kelly (1969, 26), the lands at Garryhiggin, 'were forfeited by John Grace in 1653 and granted to a Cromwellian captain named Charles Gore who named his portion Goresgrove'. A two-storey five-bay stone house with projecting chimney on the E gable was built onto the E wall of the tower house (KK012-055001-). The projecting chimney with massive stack with diagonal shafts suggests this is a 17th house (Craig 1976, 71). It appears to have been modified in the 18th/early 19th century to provide large regular fenestration with brick surrounds in the front N facade, with a central flat-headed doorway at ground level with round-headed broken-out fanlight above. There is a parapet above the cornice of the front facade. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 June 2019
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 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.
- 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
- 53.5 ha
- 132 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 185,665 m² (18.57 ha, 45.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garryhiggin, from 91,774 m² (9.18 ha, 22.68 acres) to 256,826 m² (25.68 ha, 63.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Garryhiggin 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
19 Nov 2019Conditional
for a development on our land. This development will consist of a new milking parlour, dairy, assembly area with slatted tank, cattle crush area, meal bin and all associated site works. And also retention for a slatted shed and loose house
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19861
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 Garryhiggin.
Recorded monuments
- KK012-055001 Castle - tower house
Description
On a low rise at the junction of a valley and wide open plain to the W. There are very good views in all directions. The Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of 'Tubride' records John Grace Irish Papist as the proprietor of Garryhiggin in 1640 and states that there is, 'a castle and some cabbins at Garryhiggin'. According to O'Kelly 1969, 26), Graces's lands were forfeited in 1653 and granted to a Cromwellian captain, Charles Gore, who named his portion Goresgrove. A much modified four-storey tower house (dims. 6.5m N-S; 6m E-W) with base-batter and dressed quoins. A house, possibly 17th-century in date, though modified in the 18th/early 19th-century, now ruinous, was built onto the E side, at which time the floor levels of the tower house appear to have been modified, with doorways, windows and fireplaces inserted. There were outbuildings, also now ruinous, built up against the W side. The ground floor was filled with collapse when visited in 1987. Only the N and W walls appear to be original, the S wall being substantially rebuilt and the E wall heavily modified. The original spiral stair survives in the NW angle, as do the original doors leading from the stairs to the upper floors. Three surviving original windows in the N wall are single lights, flat and round-headed. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 June 2019
- KK012-055003 House - 17th century
Description
According to O'Kelly (1969, 26), the lands at Garryhiggin, 'were forfeited by John Grace in 1653 and granted to a Cromwellian captain named Charles Gore who named his portion Goresgrove'. A two-storey five-bay stone house with projecting chimney on the E gable was built onto the E wall of the tower house (KK012-055001-). The projecting chimney with massive stack with diagonal shafts suggests this is a 17th house (Craig 1976, 71). It appears to have been modified in the 18th/early 19th century to provide large regular fenestration with brick surrounds in the front N facade, with a central flat-headed doorway at ground level with round-headed broken-out fanlight above. There is a parapet above the cornice of the front facade. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 June 2019
- KK012-056 Enclosure
Description
On a low NE-SW ridge on a valley floor, in reclaimed grassland. There are fair views along and across the valley. Shown as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map. Only the W half is indicated on the 1900 revision, with a small area of quarrying (dims. c. 20m NE-SW; c. 15m NW-SE) immediately to the SE. This quarrying may have been filled in as it is not visible on satellite imagery, but another area of quarrying (dims. c. 22m NE-SW; c. 10m NW-SE) is visible at the E edge of the enclosure (Digitalglobe imagery, viewed 14 June 2019). The monument had been levelled by 1987 and is not visible at ground level, however, the outline of the N portion is visible on satellite imagery (OS Ortho and Digitalglobe imagery, viewed 14 June 2019). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 June 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garryhiggin.
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 Garryhiggin, 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 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 Garryhiggin.
- 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 Garryhiggin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Garryhiggin · Garraí Huigín
- Area
- 534,971 m² (53.5 ha, 132.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tubbridbritain, and its townlands
- Barony
- Crannagh
- Electoral division
- Tubbridbrittain, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 307 people lived in 101 households in the Tubbridbrittain electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Garnagale, Newtown, Parks, Skeaghcroum, Sragh
- Placenames
- Garryhiggin 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.