Garraun Upper

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garraun Upper, from 50 m² to 284,539 m² (28.45 ha, 70.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Upper 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.

• 6 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, garage and

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250139

• 22 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for erection of a dwelling house domestic garage/store and associated

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220828

• 2 Dec 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A ROAD UNDERPASS FOR AGRICULTURAL USE AND

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191587

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Garraun Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WX018-025 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle S-facing slope. No feature is visible at ground level in pasture. 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: 22 May, 2012

• WX018-026 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Marked as an irregularly shaped or D-shaped embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 85m WNW-ESE; c. 80m NNE-SSW) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a field (dims. c. 75m NNE-SSW; c. 60m WNW-ESE) on the 1921 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a slight W-E spur. It is not visible at ground level in a cereal crop. 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: 22 May, 2012

• WX018-027 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a broad NW-SE ridge. It is not visible at ground level apart from a curve in a field bank SW-NW (C 23m). 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. Compied by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 22 May, 2012

• WX018-031 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) with a lime-kiln on the perimeter at S on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated at the crest of the SW-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. 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: 22 May, 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Upper.

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

Name

Garraun Upper · An Garrán Uachtarach

Area

2,011,057 m² (201.11 ha, 496.94 acres)

Civil parish

Killann, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Killann, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killann electoral division: 1,041 people in 385 households; 87% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhighland, Garraun Lower, Glenglass, Grange Lower, Milltown, Rathduff, Rathnure Lower, Rathnure Upper

Placenames

Garraun Upper 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.