Garr

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garr, from 484 m² to 404,973 m² (40.5 ha, 100.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Garr 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.

• 12 Mar 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission to 1) construct an extension to rear of existing dwelling house,

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260311

• 20 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for renovations and alterations of existing cottage

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231556

• 14 Jul 2023Refused

  Permission for Renovations and Alterations of existing cottage, demolition of

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230814

• 13 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associa

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211952

• 21 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to carry out works to a protected structure (Garr House - Protected S

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210971

• 12 May 2021Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR A SOLAR PV FARM WITH AN EXPORT CAPACITY OF 5MW COMPRISING APPROXI

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20160487

• 31 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development - the proposed development consiste of minor amendmen

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210464

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: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Garr.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1777 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1777, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1938. Hipped slate roof with clay or terracotta ridge tiles, paired red brick Running bond central chimney stacks on red brick cushion courses on slate hung bases having stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and no rainwater goods surviving on slate flagged eaves. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns having part exposed sash boxes centred on four-over-four timber sash windows without horns having part exposed sash boxes. Set in landscaped grounds.

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

At the centre of the townland of Garr, about 1 in 5 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2884 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Garr with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Garr · An Gearradh

Area

548,890 m² (54.89 ha, 135.63 acres)

Civil parish

Clonmore, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

The Leap, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,029 people lived in 355 households in the The Leap electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygillistown, Ballynapierce, Clough, Davidstown, Wilton

Placenames

Garr 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.