Granamore
Granamore is a townland in the civil parish of Hollywood, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is An Ghreanach Mhór.
- Area
- 702 ha
- 1,735 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 6,198 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Granamore, from 27 m² to 4,526,314 m² (452.63 ha, 1,118.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 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 Granamore 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
29 Apr 2026N/a
renovation and alterations to existing dwelling including an increase in the ridge height along with a two storey extension to the rear and upgrading of existing septic tank to a treatment plant with soil polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660354
30 Jan 2026Conditional
single storey dwelling, serviced with an on-site effluent disposal system to current EPA guidelines, recessed entrance, and for all associated site works including the relocation of the existing field access gate
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660066
10 Jul 2025Conditional
Re-sagging (“re-tensioning”) of the existing conductor along an approximate distance of 16km of the Maynooth - Turlough Hill 220 kV overhead line (OHL) circuit within County Wicklow; and re-sagging of approximately 1.5km of the existing conductor along the Dunstown - Turlough Hill 220 kV OHL circuit within County Wicklow; A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared to accompany this planning application
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560525
26 Jun 2025N/a
Re-sagging (“re-tensioning”) of the existing conductor along an approximate distance of 16km of the Maynooth - Turlough Hill 220 kV overhead line (OHL) circuit within County Wicklow; and re-sagging of approximately 1.5km of the existing conductor along the Dunstown - Turlough Hill 220 kV OHL circuit within County Wicklow; A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared to accompany this planning application
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560469
16 Nov 2023Conditional
a single storey dwelling with a Treatment Plant and polishing filter along with a new entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360418
19 May 2023N/a
single storey dwelling with a Treatment Plant and polishing filter along with a new entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360053
2 Aug 2022Conditional
garden pod for commercial short term lettings and connection to existing treatment plant and all associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 22840
2 Aug 2022Conditional
conversion and of part of existing house to an apartment for commercial short term lettings and all associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 22841
26 Jul 2022N/a
construction of new single storey dwelling and garage with a treatment plant and polishing filter along with a shared entrance laneway and all associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22818
22 Mar 2022N/a
a new bungalow dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22277
18 Feb 2022N/a
construction of new single storey dwelling and garage with a treatment plant and polishing filter along with a shared entrance laneway and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22161
24 Aug 2021Conditional
(1) an extension to the side of the existing dwelling and modifications to a window and door on the existing rear elevation. (2) An upgraded on-site effluent treatment system
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211054
11 Feb 2020Conditional
sheep shed and ancillary works for the shed (i.e. concrete yard area) all for agricultural purposes only, all in a new farm yard area, and new farm road entrance
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20127
17 May 2018Conditional
move location of dwelling on site
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18531
4 May 2018N/a
move location of dwelling on site. Permission for dwelling was granted under Planning Ref 17/827 and all other associated site works including entrance, and on site treatment unit will remain as granted
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18478
18 Sept 2017Conditional
change of use, removal of condition 2(a) of Planning Register Reference 98/8671 from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171132
10 Jul 2017Conditional
bungalow, on site treatment unit, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17827
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Wicklow Mountains SAC 002122
- Special Protection Area: Wicklow Mountains SPA 004040
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Poulaphouca Reservoir 000731
Recorded monuments
- WI016-007 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on the edge of the very steep bank (H c. 10m) of the Douglas river. Circular platform with a flat summit (diam. 11m; H 1.5m) defined by a U-sectioned fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.5m) from NW-E-SW and a berm (Wth 3m) at the W. No indication of an entrance or internal features. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Granamore.
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 Granamore, 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 Granamore.
- 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 Granamore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Granamore · An Ghreanach Mhór
- Area
- 7,020,068 m² (702.01 ha, 1,734.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Hollywood, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Electoral division
- Lugglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 188 people lived in 57 households in the Lugglass electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coonmore, Corragh, Granabeg Lower, Granabeg Upper, Knocknaboley, Knocknadroose, Lockstown Upper, Lugglass Lower, Pollaghadoo
- Placenames
- Granamore 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.