Garraunbeg

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garraunbeg, from 86 m² to 554,002 m² (55.4 ha, 136.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Garraunbeg 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.

• 17 Apr 2026Conditional

  new agricultural entrance and all ancillary works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660330

• 22 Jul 2025N/a

  a new agricultural entrance and all ancillary works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560711

• 2 Oct 2024Conditional

  an extension to farmyard consisting of a cattle shed with an underground slurry storage tank

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 24222

• 12 Aug 2021Conditional

  domestic garage and fuel store

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 211193

• 26 Jul 2021N/a

  a domestic garage and fuel store

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 211092

• 16 Apr 2021Conditional

  extension to the side and rear of my house

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21511

• 1 Jun 2018Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling, garage, septic tank, percolation area, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600697

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA 004165

Recorded monuments

• TN031-042 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Situated on high ground in an upland area. Poorly preserved traces of a barely discernible metalled roadway (Wth 3.5m) running N-S. According to the OS Namebooks this was an old road used by Cromwell along which he conducted his armies and military stores. SMR TN026-055 is part of the same road. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN031-043001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a NE-SW ridge in an upland area with a possible ringfort (TN031-043002) immediately to the SW. The poorly preserved remains of a possible ringfort consisting of an oval-shaped area (diam. 41m NW-SE; 21m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m) with a field fence bisecting the interior on a NE-SW axis. No visible trace of a fosse or entrance feature. 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

• TN031-043002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a NE-SW ridge in an upland area with a possible ringfort (TN031-043001) immediately to the NE. The poorly preserved remains of an oval-shaped area (diam. 41m NW-SE; 24m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m) and bisected by a field fence on a NE-SW axis. No visible trace of a fosse or entrance feature. A large quarry intersects the external face of the scarp at N with smaller quarry depressions in the interior at S. 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

• TN031-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area with a ringfort (TN031-045) to the SSE. A circular area (diam. 26m NW-SE) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1m) with external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.3m). No entrance feature visible. The enclosing bank is destroyed at S by an intersecting field fence. 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

• TN031-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area with a nearby ringfort (TN031-044) to NNW. A circular area (diam. 21m NE-SW) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.3-3.5m; max. int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1m) with traces of a shallow external fosse visible at N only. A modern road intersects the bank at N on an E-W axis. No entrance feature visible. 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

• TN031-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a SE-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area. A raised circular area (diam. 30m NW-SE) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.5m) mainly reduced to a scarp with traces of a shallow external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.2m) best visible at W. There is an entrance gap (Wth 3.5m) at E. A field fence intersects the external face of the bank at N on an E-W axis. 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

• Ciamaltha House, gate lodge, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted L-plan single-storey gate lodge with dormer floor, built c.1880. Now disused. Canted bay windows to north and east with flagstone roofs. Pitched fish-scale slate main roof roof with dressed stone chimneystack and decorative terracotta chimney pots. Roughly-dressed coursed snecked sandstone walls with dressed sandstone quoins. Chamfered cut sandstone block-and-start surrounds to windows, and to doorway in south gable. Mainly two-light windows with canted four-light cut-stone bay window to south and rectangular three-light to north. Set behind dressed snecked sandstone quadrant walls with square-plan gate piers having plinths and pyramidal capstones and steel gates.

• The Almshouses, almshouse, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of semi-detached two-bay single-storey almshouses with dormer attics, built 1874, with shared central gable and having recessed porches to end gables. Now in use as private houses. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughly coursed rubble sandstone walls with dressed limestone quoins and having carved limestone crest set under central gable. Brick surrounds to window openings. Rendered walls to porches. Single and tripartite timber sliding ash windows to northern house, and replacement uPVC to southern. Replacement timber doors. Rubble stone outbuilding with pitched slate roof to rear.

• Ciamaltha House, hunting/fishing lodge, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan two-storey Gothic Revival hunting lodge over basement, dated 1834, comprising two-pile four-bay main east-west block and slightly-lower three-bay block to south. Advanced central bays to east side of south block and north side of main block, with canted bay window in north elevation to ground and basement, polygonal porch to northwest, and glazed timber lean-to conservatories to south and east elevations. Currently being renovated. Pitched slate roofs with carved timber bargeboards and dressed and cut limestone chimneystacks. Exposed roughly-dressed sandstone walls, rendered to north elevation, having dressed sandstone quoins. Date stone to west elevation. Camber-arch openings with timber two and three-light mullioned windows, having cut sandstone voussoirs, block-and-start surrounds and label-mouldings. Porch has chanelled ashlar quoins, Tudor-arch doorway with carved trefoil motif above, pointed windows, glazed timber panelled door and remains of second doorway. East conservatory has lead roof, gabled over doorway with carved timber bargeboards and finial, glazed sides on concrete plinth and accessed by flight of steps. Older north conservatory has double round-headed windows separated by mullions on rubble sandstone plinths, with glazing over and having timber double-leaf panelled door with gablet above with spoked overlight and carved bargeboards with timber finial. Ashlar sandstone steps to west leading to basement which has sandstone flag floor to barrel-vaulted store rooms.

• Ciamaltha House, stables, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three ranges of stable buildings, built c.1830, comprising two-storey blocks, five-bay to south now in use as private house, multiple-bay with carriage arches to west and multiple-bay single-storey stable block to north, set around courtyard, with stone boundary wall to east with vehicular and segmental-arch pedestrian entrances. Pitched slate roofs with sandstone eaves course, carved bargeboards and dressed sandstone chimneystacks. Exposed roughly-dressed sandstone walls. South block has pointed-arch opening in east gable and square-headed elsewhere, with voussoirs, replacement and some timber casement windows, and replacement timber door set in square-headed opening. Timber battened doors to segmental carriage arches. Square-headed openings to stable block with timber battened half-doors. Projecting polygonal porch to northeast corner of yard having recessed Tudor-arch openings with brick dressings and replacement timber windows.

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 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 Garraunbeg.

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

Name

Garraunbeg · An Garrán Beag

Area

1,447,505 m² (144.75 ha, 357.69 acres)

Civil parish

Killoscully, and its townlands

Barony

Owney and Arra

Electoral division

Killoscully, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killoscully electoral division: 510 people in 170 households; 91% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughavehir, Ballyhourigan, Barnabaun, Clonalough, Clonygaheen, Drumbaun, Maryglen, Munnia, Rossaguile

Placenames

Garraunbeg 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.