Garrynagran
Garrynagran is a townland in the civil parish of Taghboy, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 142 ha
- 351 acres
- Land parcels
- 62
- registered freehold, median 18,366 m² (1.84 ha, 4.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrynagran, from 102 m² to 155,685 m² (15.57 ha, 38.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Garrynagran 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
16 Sept 2025Refused
Retention of existing general purpose shed (139.54m²) and associated concrete/paved aprons & as constructed location of septic tank and percolation area to that granted in planning permission PD/04/110 and Permission for an extension (93.03m²) to existing general purpose shed and all necessary site services/ancillary siteworks at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2564
7 Oct 2024Conditional
Permission to construct domestic dwelling house along with new treatment system and percolation area, and all ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460471
21 Sept 2023Conditional
Permission for erection of dwelling house and domestic garage with sewerage treatment plant and percolation area and ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2360120
17 Jul 2017Conditional
To erect twelve Solar Photo Voltaic panels on the roof of house at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17316
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
- Special Protection Area: River Suck Callows SPA 004097
- Natural Heritage Area: Suck River Callows NHA 000222
Recorded monuments
- RO047-039 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and described as 'Garrynagran Fort' in gothic lettering on both. It is situated on a slight rise in an undulating landscape. A length of grass-covered wall footing (C 22.5m; Wth 2.5m; max. H 0.45m) survives W-N, but the interior is now a grass-covered quarry. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO047-073 Barrow - mound barrow
Description
On a slight rise overlooking a basin S-NW. Subcircular, gently rounded and grass-covered earthen mound (dims 20.2m N-S; 17.2m E-W; H 1.6-1.9m) curtailed slightly by a N-S field wall at E and with slight remains of field banks on the other sides. There are some field stones on the mound. 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 Garrynagran.
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 Garrynagran, 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 Garrynagran.
- 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 Garrynagran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Garrynagran
- Area
- 1,420,434 m² (142.04 ha, 351 acres)
- Civil parish
- Taghboy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Electoral division
- Turrock, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 322 people lived in 113 households in the Turrock electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballina, Carrownadurly, Carrowntarriff, Cloonagh, Lisseenamanragh, Srahgarve (Co. Galway)
- Placenames
- Garrynagran 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.