Garraun Lower

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garraun Lower, from 767 m² to 376,799 m² (37.68 ha, 93.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Garraun Lower 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.

• 27 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully service single storey dwelling & detached

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220851

• 16 Nov 2021Refused

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced single storey dwelling & detache

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211776

• 5 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced two storey residential dwell

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211054

• 3 Sept 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SITE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191230

• 4 Aug 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED CATTLE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WOR

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171041

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

• WX024-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located a the SW edge of a NW-SE ridge with a NW-SE stream c. 230m to the SW. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 31m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.8-1m; ext. H 1.2-1.6m) with some bushes. There is no visible fosse, but the entrance (Wth 1.7m) is at SE. Archaeological testing (22E0251) by Y. Whitty and a geophysical survey (22R0034) immediately to the SW produced no related material (excavations.ie 2022:089). 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 revision: 25 June, 2012 Amended: 23 December 2022

• WX024-011 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Marked as a D shaped embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 90m NE-SW; c. 60m NW-SE) that appears to have been truncated by a NE-SW field bank at NW on the1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on a S-facing slope at the SE end of a NW-SE ridge. This is a subrectangular dished area (dim. c. 60m NW-SE; c. 60m NE-SW) planted in a root crop with a curve in the field bank (C c. 60m) at NW. 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: 25 June, 2012

• WX025-001001 Church
  Description

  Marked faintly as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) and described as 'Site of Chapel' on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is located at the S end of the plateau of a NW-SE spur with the N-S Killeen stream c. 700m to the E and the W-E River Boro c. 650m to the S. This Roman Catholic chapel was extant in 1753 when Bishop Sweetman conducted confirmation there and the sermon was given in Irish by the parish priest Fr. Martin Redmond. During the 1798 rebellion the congregation protected a local Protestant man from the insurgents (Cullen 2018, 40). There are no visible remains of a structure, enclosure or burial at ground level. Local information places the site c. 200m to the E (WX025-001003-), but this is unlikely. A granite bullaun stone (dims of top 0.62m x 0.57m; H 0.34m) with a single basin (dims 0.39m x 0.33m; D 0.2m) which had present at the location in the 1940s (SMR file), but was missing for a time is now at a house in Caim (WX019-042----). 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: 3 July, 2012 Revised: 30 September, 2019

• WX025-001002 Bullaun stone
  Description

  A granite bullaun stone (dims of top 0.62m x 0.57m; H 0.34m) with a single basin (dims 0.39m x 0.33m; D 0.2m) which had been present at the site of the church (WX025-001001-) in the 1940s (SMR file) but had been missing for a time is now at a house in Caim (WX019-042----). (Cullen 2018, 40) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 July, 2012 Amended: 30 September, 2019

• WX025-001003 Church
  Description

  Located at the S end of the plateau of a NW-SE spur with the N-S Killeen stream c. 500m to the E and the W-E River Boro c. 670m to the S. This is thought locally to be the correct location of the church (WX024-001001-) and it is described locally as being a stony area at the time it was cleared. The bullaun stone (WX024-001002-) that was associated with the church is now at a house in Caim (WX019-042----). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 July, 2012 Amended: 30 September, 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Garraun Lower.

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 Garraun Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Garraun Lower · An Garrán Íochtarach

Area

1,848,267 m² (184.83 ha, 456.72 acres)

Civil parish

Killann, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Castleboro, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castleboro electoral division: 964 people in 337 households; 91% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhighland, Castleboro Demesne, Garraun Upper, Glenglass, Knockmore, Rathfylane, Rathnure Lower

Placenames

Garraun Lower 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.