Garranstackle
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyhoge, barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford; in Irish Garraí an Stacalaigh
- Area
- 259.3 ha
- 641 acres
- Land parcels
- 79
- registered freehold, median 4,299 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garranstackle, from 10 m² to 225,760 m² (22.58 ha, 55.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Garranstackle 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
1 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an extension to an existing dwelling house,
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250807
13 Jun 2025N/a
Permission for the erection of an extension to the back of home
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250723
20 May 2025N/a
Permission for the erection of an extension to the back of home and all the
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250582
31 Mar 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house & garage with associated
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230326
14 Feb 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of temporary siting of existing mobile home
Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230137
23 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)
Erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage/store and associated works (altera
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200360
17 May 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190660
25 Apr 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, AND ASSOCIATED WORKS.
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190552
20 Nov 2018Refused
PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING, GARAGE, VEHICULAR ENTRANCE A
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181592
18 Aug 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FOLLOWING A) EXTENSION TO NORTHERN ELEVAT
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171103
16 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION OF AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING DW
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170322
1 Mar 2017N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING DWELL
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170238
8 Feb 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170127
30 May 2016Granted (conditional)
CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING SLURRY TANK TO SLATTED SHED UNIT AND ASSOCIATED SITE W
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160573
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Garranstackle.
Recorded monuments
- WX031-017 Moated site
Description
Marked as a rectangular embanked or moated enclosure (ext. dims. c. 50m N-S; c. 30m E-W) missing its perimeter at W on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is located on a plateau at the bottom of a N-facing slope but overlooking the SW-NE Clonmore River that is c. 120m to the W and c. 150m to the N. This is a square grass-covered area (dims. c. 30m N-S x 30m E-W) defined by the slight dip of back filled moats that are only visible on the N (Wth 10m; D 0.3m) and E (Wth 3m; D 0.1m) sides. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 28 August, 2012
- WX031-065 Ring-ditch
Description
First noted on the website http://breeheritage.ie. Situated in a col on a NE-SW ridge between a hill in Ballymorris c. 1km to the SW and ground that is slightly higher than the location c. 300m to the NE, but with lower ground to the NW and SE. A ring-ditch (diam. c. 15m) is visible on Google Earth (2011), but is not recorded on other series of aerial photographs. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 31 August, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garranstackle.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Garranstackle.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Garranstackle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Garranstackle · Garraí an Stacalaigh
- Area
- 2,592,523 m² (259.25 ha, 640.63 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyhoge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Ballyhoge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyhoge electoral division: 1,332 people in 471 households; 81% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhoge, Ballymorris, Clonmore, Kereight, Mackmine, Sparrowsland
- Placenames
- Garranstackle 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.