# Garra, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Meelnagh, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Garraí Dubh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 435,467 m² (43.55 ha, 107.61 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,722 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Meelnagh, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/meelnagh.md - Barony: Ballaghkeen North - Electoral division: Bolaboy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Bolaboy electoral division: 1,252 people in 440 households; 79% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/52247 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241141 - Centre: latitude 52.496544, longitude -6.388141 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garra, from 73 m² to 162,135 m² (16.21 ha, 40.06 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4996494: 162,135 m² (16.21 ha, 40.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4996494.md - Parcel 415904: 73,504 m² (7.35 ha, 18.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/415904.md - Parcel 383271: 47,242 m² (4.72 ha, 11.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/383271.md - Parcel 383838: 40,376 m² (4.04 ha, 9.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/383838.md - Parcel 417821: 30,177 m² (3.02 ha, 7.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/417821.md - Parcel 409896: 23,078 m² (2.31 ha, 5.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/409896.md - Parcel 429287: 20,901 m² (2.09 ha, 5.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/429287.md - Parcel 425943: 11,183 m² (1.12 ha, 2.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/425943.md - Parcel 423251: 5,108 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/423251.md - Parcel 361204: 2,950 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/361204.md - Parcel 421364: 2,793 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/421364.md - Parcel 422509: 2,554 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/422509.md - Parcel 408243: 2,335 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/408243.md - Parcel 3294606: 1,722 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3294606.md - Parcel 418219: 1,361 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/418219.md - Parcel 387900: 1,177 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/387900.md - Parcel 394672: 1,114 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/394672.md - Parcel 376189: 996 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/376189.md - Parcel 431148: 933 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/431148.md - Parcel 3294661: 922 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3294661.md - Parcel 3294682: 882 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3294682.md - Parcel 388348: 567 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/388348.md - Parcel 382736: 481 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/382736.md - Parcel 423916: 331 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/423916.md - Parcel 388517: 293 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/388517.md - Parcel 425202: 276 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/425202.md - Parcel 386200: 73 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/386200.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Garra 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 17 Apr 2025, Wexford County Council 20250454: Granted (conditional). Retention. Permission for retention for 1) existing domestic shed 2) existing domestic. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/128880 - 14 Apr 2025, Wexford County Council 20250432: Granted (conditional). Permission. 1. Permission for change of use of existing two-storey dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/128849 - 1 Jul 2020, Wexford County Council 20200206: Granted (conditional). Permission. PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION (165M2) TO ACCOMMODATE 1 NO.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/114033 - 26 Jun 2020, Wexford County Council 20200690: Granted (conditional). Retention, 1 home. (A) Permission for Retention of (1) Existing site boundaries; (2) Alterations to. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/115596 - 1 Oct 2018, Wexford County Council 20181338: Granted (conditional). Retention. PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF AN EXISTING FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION TO OUR DWELLING. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/107144 - 2 Nov 2017, Wexford County Council 20171416: Granted (conditional). Retention, 1 home. PERMISSION FOR RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE, PERMISSION FOR. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/104916 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Garra. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Garra. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garra. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Garra. - 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/garra.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/garra.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/garra.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Garra, Oulart: 5 sales, https://everytownland.com/wexford/garra-oulart.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bolaboy More: https://everytownland.com/wexford/bolaboy-more.md - Garrymore: https://everytownland.com/wexford/garrymore.md - Kyle: https://everytownland.com/wexford/kyle-241555.md - Kyle Little: https://everytownland.com/wexford/kyle-little.md - Oulart: https://everytownland.com/wexford/oulart-241838.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/garra - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/garra