# Garr, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonmore, barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Gearradh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 548,890 m² (54.89 ha, 135.63 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,683 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonmore, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/clonmore.md - Barony: Bantry - Electoral division: The Leap, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/52689 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241140 - Centre: latitude 52.468289, longitude -6.617078 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garr, from 484 m² to 404,973 m² (40.5 ha, 100.07 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5575609: 404,973 m² (40.5 ha, 100.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5575609.md - Parcel 404031: 61,416 m² (6.14 ha, 15.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/404031.md - Parcel 363033: 48,951 m² (4.9 ha, 12.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/363033.md - Parcel 392345: 4,225 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/392345.md - Parcel 430753: 3,733 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/430753.md - Parcel 387505: 3,633 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/387505.md - Parcel 386391: 2,888 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/386391.md - Parcel 421804: 2,250 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/421804.md - Parcel 418198: 1,156 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/418198.md - Parcel 408242: 484 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/408242.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 12 Mar 2026, Wexford County Council 20260311: Granted (conditional). Retention. Permission to 1) construct an extension to rear of existing dwelling house,. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/130779 - 20 Dec 2023, Wexford County Council 20231556: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for renovations and alterations of existing cottage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/126479 - 14 Jul 2023, Wexford County Council 20230814: Refused. Permission. Permission for Renovations and Alterations of existing cottage, demolition of. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/125666 - 13 Dec 2021, Wexford County Council 20211952: Granted (conditional). Permission, 2 homes. Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associa. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/122726 - 21 Jun 2021, Wexford County Council 20210971: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. Permission to carry out works to a protected structure (Garr House - Protected S. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/121594 - 12 May 2021, Wexford County Council 20160487: Granted (conditional). Extension of duration. PERMISSION FOR A SOLAR PV FARM WITH AN EXPORT CAPACITY OF 5MW COMPRISING APPROXI. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/120713 - 31 Mar 2021, Wexford County Council 20210464: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for development - the proposed development consiste of minor amendmen. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/120193 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC, site code 000781, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000781 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Garr. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Farm house, 1700–1777, Regional interest, registry number 15702555, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15702555. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2884.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wexford/garr.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/garr.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/garr.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Garr with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballygillistown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballygillistown.md - Ballynapierce: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballynapierce.md - Clough: https://everytownland.com/wexford/clough.md - Davidstown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/davidstown-241041.md - Wilton: https://everytownland.com/wexford/wilton.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wexford/garr - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/garr