Garryknock

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garryknock, from 549 m² to 1,306,326 m² (130.63 ha, 322.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Garryknock 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Garryknock in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Wicklow Mountains SAC 002122
• Special Protection Area: Wicklow Mountains SPA 004040
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballinagee Wood 001750

Recorded monuments

• WI016-024001 Hut site
  Description

  In rough commonage, on a gentle S-facing slope. One of five hut sites forming a cluster (see WI016-024002-, WI016-024003-,WI016-024004-, WI016-024005-). A sub-rectangular area (3.1m N-S; 2m E-W) enclosed by a grassy bank (max H 0.6m; Wth 1.3m). There is a possible entrance at N (Wth 0.4m) and the remains of an annex (3m N-S ; 1.3m E-W) along the W side. The interior of the hut site is slightly sunken. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 15 January 2013

• WI016-024002 Hut site
  Description

  In rough commonage, on a gentle S-facing slope. One of five hut sites forming a cluster (see WI016-024001-, WI016-024003-,WI016-024004-, WI016-024005-). Located 2m to S of another hut site (WI016-024001-). A sub-rectangular area (3m N-S; 2m E-W) enclosed by a grassy bank (max H 0.5m; Wth 1m). There is a possible entrance at S (Wth 0.5m) and the remains of a possible annex (2m NE-SW; 1.5m NW-SE) along the SW side. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 15 January 2013

• WI016-024003 Hut site
  Description

  In rough commonage, on a gentle S-facing slope. One of five hut sites forming a cluster (see WI016-024001-, WI016-024002-,WI016-024004-, WI016-024005-). Located c. 5m to S of another hut site (WI016-024002-). An oval area (2.2m N-S; 2.4m E-W) enclosed by a grassy bank (H 0.4m; Wth 1m). There is a possible entrance at ESE (Wth 0.8m). Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 15 January 2013

• WI016-024004 Hut site
  Description

  In rough commonage, on a gentle S-facing slope. One of five hut sites forming a cluster (see WI016-024001-, WI016-024002-,WI016-024003-, WI016-024005-). Located c. 6.8m to SE of another hut site (WI016-024002-). A sub-rectangular area (3.8m WNW-ESE; 2.1m NNE-SSW)enclosed by a grassy bank (max. H 0.6m; Wth 1.1m). There is a possible entrance at E (Wth 0.8m). The interior of the hut site is slightly sunken. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 15 January 2013

• WI016-024005 Hut site
  Description

  In rough commonage, on a gentle S-facing slope. One of five hut sites forming a cluster (see WI016-024001-, WI016-024002-,WI016-024003-, WI016-024004-). Located 3m to NNW of another hut site (WI016-024004-). A rectangular area (4m N-S; 3.1m E-W) enclosed by a grassy bank faced with boulders in places (H 0.5m; Wth 1m). There is a possible entrance at SSE (Wth 0.55m) and a possible annex (1m N-S; 2m E-W) at S. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 15 January 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Garryknock, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Garryknock.

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.

No address of the register names Garryknock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Garryknock · Garraí an Chnoic

Area

5,108,705 m² (510.87 ha, 1,262.39 acres)

Civil parish

Boystown, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Lackan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

861 people lived in 293 households in the Lackan electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinagee, Ballyknockan, Bawnoge, Carrigacurra, Glenbride, Knockalt Lower, Knockalt Upper, Oakwood, Togher

Placenames

Garryknock 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.