Garryduff

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garryduff, from 196 m² to 372,479 m² (37.25 ha, 92.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Garryduff 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.

• 10 May 2024Conditional

  construction of concrete yard with effluent tank and all associated site works. Permission for retention of agricultural storage shed for farmyard manure & imported organic based fertilizer /soil improvers and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460158

• 6 Dec 2022Refused

  to construct a dwelling house & detached garage with septic tank & percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2260024

• 1 Apr 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct milking parlour and dairy, cubicle shed, underground slurry storage tanks, erect roof to existing cattle enclosure and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21166

• 9 Mar 2021N/a

  Permission to construct milking parlour & dairy, cubicle shed, underground slurry storage tanks, erect roof to existing cattle enclosure and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21114

• 20 Dec 2017Conditional

  Construction of a slatted shed, dunstead and associated site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 176362

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 Garryduff.

Recorded monuments

• WM038-034 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Surveyed in 2013 and described by McGuinness (2014, 46) as following: 'Monument is shaped from the top of a glacial knoll (see below), and comprises a circular mound (Diam. 12.7m N-S x 12m E-W) surrounded by a ditch and outer bank, giving an overall diameter of 28.2m N-S x 30.3m E-W. Mound is domed in appearance with flattish apex (Diam. 3.6m N-S x 3m E-W), in which is a slight but clear depression indicating either a collapsed central chamber or ransacking by treasure-hunters. Mound rises above the surrounding bank and well above external ground. On SW side, mound rises up to 1.5m above the ditch, which is flat-bottomed and up to 2.8m in width where best defined. Where best preserved on N and NW sides, outer bank ranges in width from 3.10 to 3.60m and rises up to 0.64m above the ditch; bank rises up to 0.54m above external ground level on W side. Numerous small stones lie in the ditch in SE quadrant and others protrude or can be felt by probing on upper surface of mound, but where the outer bank has been poached (see below) it appears to be composed primarily of earth with relatively few stones. Monument is prominently sited on and shaped from a low, flat-topped glacial ridge running WNW-ESE, probably a kame, in pasture; a marshy area to NW may be the remains of a kettle-hole lake. Thorn trees, found around parts of edge of monument and on central mound, were probably planted to create shelter for animals: certainly much of the bank on the S side has been poached by cattle, although the roots of the trees that draw the animals here are extensive, and to an extent hold the bank and mound together'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 23 February 2015

• WM038-065 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 30m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 07 May 2019

• WM039-010 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Surveyed in 2013 and described by McGuinness (2014, 48) as following: 'Well-preserved ring-barrow with central subcircular mound (Diam. 7.5m N-S x 8.8m E-W) surrounded by a ditch and external bank, giving an overall diameter of 24.7m N-S x 23.2m E-W. Monument slopes down gently from NW to SE, apparently the topography of the kame on which it has been sited (see below). On S side flattish, dome-shaped central mound rises up to 0.6m above broad ditch, which is flat-bottomed and ranges in width from 2.1m at NW to 3.9m at NE. Broad bank reaches up to 4.7m in width at S and E, and up to 6.7m at NW, and its massive NW stretch rises up to 0.67m above ditch and up to 0.60m above external ground level; central mound and surrounding bank are of a similar height. Projecting 4m from the outer bank on SE side is a cairn of stones up to 5m in width, with larger boulders at its base and smaller stones on top; this has the appearance of a field-clearance cairn, and numerous stones in E half of ditch may relate to similar clearance. Thorn trees growing around E half of outer bank and on parts of central mound provide shelter for animals and there has been some slight poaching of central mound on E side but, given that sheep are pastured here, the damage is far less than is evident on sites where cattle roam free. Monument lies in undulating pasture at NE end of a low kame ridge running NE-SW; a tiny kettle-hole lies close by in adjacent field to W of barrow. Although on a local eminence, higher ground rises to NE. Croghan Hill in Offaly with its burial mound (OF010-004001-) on the summit is prominent on horizon to E; also visible is the second ring-barrow in this townland (WM038-034----) c. 400m to W'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of revised upload: 23 February 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Garryduff.

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 Garryduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Garryduff

Area

1,364,444 m² (136.44 ha, 337.16 acres)

Civil parish

Rahugh, and its townlands

Barony

Moycashel

Electoral division

Newtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newtown electoral division: 262 people in 82 households; 94% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappanrush, Cornaher, Montrath, Pallasboy

Placenames

Garryduff 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.