Garrymorris
Garrymorris is a townland in the civil parish of Garrangibbon, barony of Slievardagh, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Garraí Mhuiris.
- Area
- 85.4 ha
- 211 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 14,889 m² (1.49 ha, 3.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrymorris, from 205 m² to 88,843 m² (8.88 ha, 21.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Garrymorris 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
19 Jun 2023Conditional
the construction of a two storey dwelling and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and raised bed soil polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 23168
27 Aug 2021N/a
demolish existing derelict dwelling and construct a replacement dwelling, garage, entrance onto laneway, wastewater treatment system, borehole, soakpits and all other associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 211277
4 Aug 2020Conditional
as-built bungalow, changes consist of (1) gable roof construction (2) addition of window to rear of dwelling (3) addition of door to side of dwelling (4) private water supply and (5) septic tank location
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 20862
23 Jul 2020N/a
as-built bungalow, changes consist of (1) gable roof construction (2) addition of window to rear of dwelling (3) addition of door to side of dwelling (4) private water supply and (5) septic tank location
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 20805
11 Jun 2020N/a
as-built bungalow, associated septic tank and private water supply, including gable roof construction and existing windows/door to the side/rear of the property
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 20587
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
- TS079-020 Enclosure
Description
On quite a steep E-facing slope in undulating terrain, under pasture. Identifed as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 36m) on an aerial photograph taken in 1973 (GSI S.501/500). It is not visible at ground level, however, it is possible that a modern farm road running NE-SW truncates the E quadrant. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
- House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820, with windbreak to front door and single-storey extension to north gable. Thatched roof, pitched to south, hipped to north, with red brick chimneystack. Pitched slate roof to extension. Painted rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and timber battened door. Rubble limestone walls and piers to garden boundary. Yard comprises single-storey outbuildings with pitched slate roofs, rendered walls, square-headed and triangular openings. Rubble stone walls to site boundary.
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 Garrymorris, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Garrymorris.
- 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 Garrymorris with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Garrymorris · Garraí Mhuiris
- Area
- 854,360 m² (85.44 ha, 211.12 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
- Attyjames, Ballinvir, Ballybronoge, Garryduff, Rathclarish
- Placenames
- Garrymorris 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.