Granisk
Granisk is a townland in the civil parish of Mayglass, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Gráig an Uisce.
- Area
- 48.6 ha
- 120 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 241,444 m² (24.14 ha, 59.66 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Granisk, from 7,458 m² (0.75 ha, 1.84 acres) to 475,431 m² (47.54 ha, 117.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Granisk 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
19 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)
Retention planning permission for demolition of a dwelling and retention for
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201208
17 Aug 2020N/a
Permission for retention for alteration during construction to an existing detat
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200947
18 Apr 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION OF ERECTION OF EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING DETACHED FULL
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180490
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 Granisk.
Recorded monuments
- WX047-034001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a gently rolling landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photograph (CUCASP: AIC 46). A second cropmark enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse feature is attached to the NE as an annexe. Neither enclosure is visible at ground level in a root 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: 15 October, 2013
- WX047-034002 Enclosure
Description
Located on a gently rolling landscape. The cropmark of an enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse feature is attached to the NE of rath (WX047-034001-) as an annexe and is visible on aerial photograph (CUCASP: AIC 46). Neither enclosure is visible at ground level in a root crop. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 October, 2013
- WX047-165 Enclosure
Description
Aerial photograph (GB90.CG.21) shows a cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of Upload: 24 February, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Granisk.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Granisk, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Granisk.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Granisk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Granisk · Gráig an Uisce
- Area
- 485,501 m² (48.55 ha, 119.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mayglass, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Mayglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 600 people lived in 195 households in the Mayglass electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coalspit, Cousinstown, Damptown, Moortown Little, Randalstown, Tenacre
- Placenames
- Granisk 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.