Garraun

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garraun, from 1,835 m² to 259,020 m² (25.9 ha, 64.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Garraun 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Garraun 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 the townland of Garraun.

Recorded monuments

• MA103-016 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on a low, gently undulating rise. An oval embanked enclosure (c. 30m N−S; c. 20-25m E−W) is shown on 1838 OS 6-inch map, but not on later map editions. It has been levelled; indistinct surface undulations are visible but the outline of the enclosure cannot be traced. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 October 2022

• MA103-017 Souterrain
  Description

  In pasture, on a low narrow ridge flanked at N and S by lowlying, wettish pasture and bog. There are good views in all directions. Not indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; marked as ‘Souterrain’ on the 1916 edition. Irregular-shaped pit (c. 4m N−S; 3m E−W; D 1m) bordered on the N side by a low mound (2m N−S; 3m E−W; H 0.6m) of earth, partly obscured by clumps of brambles. A lintelled opening is exposed in the SW side of the pit, with a large slab, probably a displaced lintel, lying adjacent. The opening reveals a small, semicircular drystone chamber (1.4m E−W; c. 1m N−S; H c. 0.6m) which is partly filled with soil. According to local tradition, the souterrain has two chambers. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 October 2022

• MA103-055 Bullaun stone
  Description

  In pasture, at the base of the SE slope of a low natural hillock. A subrectangular-shaped boulder (0.7m by 0.57m; H 0.3m) with a circular bowl-shaped depression (diam. 0.3m; D 0.1m) in its upper surface. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 November 2022

• MA103-069001 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, located on top of a low natural hillock with a flattish top and broadly sloping sides, surrounded by undulating, rocky limestone terrain, with lowlying boggy ground to N. Small scale quarrying is evident at several locations around the circuit of the hillock. Many of the surrounding fields, which are enclosed by drystone walls, have been reclaimed. According to local information, there may have been an enclosure here (SMR file). The evidence is tenuous. A scarp, incorporating occasional stones and boulders, defines the E−S arc of the hill at the break of slope between the flattish top and the sloping sides, possibly the remnants of an enclosure. But the scarp peters out and does not continue around the full circuit of the hill. There is a hint of a scarp on the N side of the hill, but this is difficult to trace as parts of the hill at N and NW have been disturbed by small quarry pits. A straight NNW-SSW field wall crosses the W side of the hill. Several boulders or large stones (max. dim 1.4m; max. H 0.7m) protrude from the flattish top of the hill, in an apparently random manner, possibly related to the quarrying activity. They are irregular in shape and size, spaced between 3-6m apart. Some appear to form an irregular and widely spaced curve, but this seems to be just chance and not a purposeful, built arrangement. Overall they do not appear to form any definite pattern. These stones are probably the features which were interpreted as a possible ‘stone circle’ (MA103-069002-) and a megalithic structure (MA103-099003-). Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 23 November 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Garraun, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_896 (ZIP).

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 Garraun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Garraun · An Garrán

Area

963,694 m² (96.37 ha, 238.13 acres)

Civil parish

Annagh, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Course, the unit of the census

Census 2022

455 people lived in 166 households in the Course electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bargarriff, Corrasluastia (Co. Roscommon), Derrintogher, Leo, Scregg, Tullaghaun

Placenames

Garraun 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.