Garraun (Tipperary)

Garraun is a townland, containing a little over 567 acres, in Twomileborris civil parish in County Tipperary.

[1] In its south-eastern corner it encloses two very small exclaves of the neighbouring townland of Borris.

[2] In recent years, the village of Two-Mile Borris, whose core is in Borris townland, has expanded westwards across the townland boundary, with the result that south-eastern Garraun now contains part of the village, in the shape of a new housing area called Dún na Rí.

[citation needed] It is not possible to give a figure for the population of Garraun townland at the time of the 2011 census, because the website of the Irish Central Statistics Office merges the townland into "small Area number 217145002",[6] which also includes the townlands of Coldfields and Rathmanna (also from Borrisleigh civil parish), as well as those of Loughbeg and Lisduff (from Rahelty civil parish) and Ballygammane (from Thurles civil parish).

[7] In 2011, the total population for the "small area" had risen, to 241, of which males numbered 123 and females 118.