Carragaun

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carragaun, from 1,201 m² to 186,440 m² (18.64 ha, 46.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Carragaun 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 Carragaun 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 Carragaun.

Recorded monuments

• TS082-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NW-facing slope, just off crest of hill in undulating terrain. Surrounded by meadow to NE and pasture to SE. Bivallate ringfort (diam. c. 42m N-S and E-W) within a small area of woodland. The interior is heavily overgrown with scrub in the E half and brambles in the W half. It is enclosed by a broad internal bank (Wth 2.6m crest, 6.6m base; int. H 0.64m; ext. H 2.75m), flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 2.57m) and external bank (Wth 1.6m crest, 3.8m base; ext. H 0.92m). There is a gap in the inner bank in the SE quadrant (Wth 1.4m) but no corresponding gap in the outer bank. Large mature beech trees growing around top of outer bank. Younger beech and conifers in interior. In the SW quadrant the outer face of the inner bank has been badly eroded. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 20 January 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Carragaun, 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 Carragaun.

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 Carragaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Carragaun · An Carragán

Area

463,756 m² (46.38 ha, 114.6 acres)

Civil parish

Derrygrath, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa West

Electoral division

Derrygrath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

709 people lived in 244 households in the Derrygrath electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Commons-Entire East, Commons-Entire West, Cuckoohill, Derrygrath Upper, Lisnamuck

Placenames

Carragaun 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.