Garranbeg
Garranbeg is a townland in the civil parish of Garrangibbon, barony of Slievardagh, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is An Garrán Beag.
- Area
- 70.6 ha
- 175 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 4,926 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garranbeg, from 624 m² to 311,708 m² (31.17 ha, 77.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Garranbeg 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
24 May 2017Conditional
as constructed extension to rear of our dwelling with all associated siteworks and ancillary works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 17600590
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 Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137
Recorded monuments
- TS078-017 Enclosure
Description
On a very gentle SE-facing slope, under pasture, in undulating terrain. Monument marked as a circular area within a more irregular enclosure on 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map but not marked on 1901-05 ed. It is likely to have been ploughed out between these two editions, however, it is still visible as a circular area (diam. 43.6m NE-SW) defined by a low, broad bank (Wth c. 10m; int. H 0.28m; ext. H 0.36m) from SW-W-N-NE and possible fosse only visible in N quadrant (Wth 3m; D 0.3) and outer bank visible from E-ESE (Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.11m; ext. H 0.23m). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garranbeg.
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 Garranbeg, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Garranbeg.
- 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 Garranbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Garranbeg · An Garrán Beag
- Area
- 706,352 m² (70.64 ha, 174.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Garrangibbon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Slievardagh
- Electoral division
- Garrangibbon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 663 people lived in 249 households in the Garrangibbon electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvir, Bleenaleen Upper, Brenormore, Cheesemount, Garrangibbon, Glenacunna, Templemichael
- Placenames
- Garranbeg 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.