Garrane
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbarron, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Garrán
- Area
- 63.8 ha
- 158 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 2,767 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning
- G1
- Amenity
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrane, from 1,512 m² to 4,676 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G1Amenity (Open space, park)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 Nov 2025Conditional
1) Construction of a concrete hurling ball wall, associated catch netting, all weather astroturf surface, and installation of 2no. 10m lighting columns complete with 2no. LED floodlights on each column to illuminate the ball wall to the north western corner of existing playing pitch; 2) Installation of 6no. 15m lighting columns complete with 2no. LED floodlights on each column to illuminate existing training pitch to the northern end of existing sportsfield; 3) Installation of 6no. 6m lighting columns complete with LED lights to illuminate existing perimeter walkway, including all ancillary civil and site works thereto
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561126
16 May 2025Conditional
1) as-built fuel storage shed; 2) Permission for the construction of single-storey extensions to the north-western corner and eastern side of our existing dwelling house, including alterations of the existing external elevations, roof profile, and all ancillary site works thereto
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560430
15 Nov 2018Conditional
existing domestic storage shed
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 18601354
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Garrane.
Recorded monuments
- TN006-015 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Situated on a low natural rise of ground in undulating countryside. A circular area (diam. 22.5m N-S) enclosed by a stone wall (Wth 1.7m) of loosely piled rubble with upright boulders in places. The site utilises natural rock outcrop to form the boundary of the enclosure. Internal stone-facing is best preserved at SE and some rock outcrop protrudes from the interior. Possible entrance gap (Wth 3.5m) at SE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
- Ballinderry Bridge, bridge, 1770–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Five-arch limestone road bridge over Ballyfinboy River, built c.1790. Rubble walls with dressed voussoirs to round arches and with V-cut-waters to west side of bridge. Southernmost arch is flood arch. Concrete casing to piers. Bridge recently repaired and re-pointed.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Garrane.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Garrane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Garrane · An Garrán
- Area
- 638,020 m² (63.8 ha, 157.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbarron, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Kilbarron, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilbarron electoral division: 646 people in 248 households; 88% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinderry, Clooninihy, Killea, Newlawn, Stonepark
- Placenames
- Garrane 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.