Garraun North

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garraun North, from 145 m² to 146,087 m² (14.61 ha, 36.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Garraun North 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.

• 14 Jun 2025Conditional

  to demolish single storey extension to original Cottage and rear Sun Room, construct all new two and single storey extension and modifications to existing Cottage and new roof light to main front roof, along with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 106.70 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560768

• 17 Dec 2020Conditional

  to (i) demolish existing rear extension, (ii) to extend and renovate existing dwelling house and (iii) to erect a domestic garage and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20552

• 30 Jun 2020Conditional

  to erect an extension onto existing dwelling house and construct a domestic garage/store on site and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20238

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 North.

Recorded monuments

• RO038-037 Moated site
  Description

  On a slight rise in a low-lying landscape. Rectangular grass-covered platform (dims 41m NE-SW; 33.7m NW-SE) defined by slight banks (Wth 3.3-4.2m; int. H 0.35-0.55m; ext. H 0.9-1.3m) on the NW and SE sides and overgrown, flat-bottomed moats (at NE: Wth of top 11.6m; Wth of base 7m; D 0.55m) on all sides except the SE. There is an overgrown outer bank (at NE: Wth 7m; H 0.65m), or the remnants of one, on all sides except the SE. There is no identifiable original entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29th September, 2010

• RO038-040 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  At the crest of the S-facing slope of a N-S ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 77.3m N-S; 74m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3-4.2m; int. H 0.1-0.7m; ext. H 0.35-0.65m) SSE-W-NE, but the perimeter has been quarried elsewhere. There is no visible fosse, but there is an entrance (Wth 2m) at W, and another entrance (Wth 4m) at SSE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Garraun North · An Garrán Thuaidh

Area

917,877 m² (91.79 ha, 226.81 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbegnet, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Rosmoylan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rosmoylan electoral division: 215 people in 68 households; 92% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curraghrevagh (Co. Galway), Garraun South, Kilbegnet, Lisduff, Oughtagh, Tonamaddy

Placenames

Garraun North 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.