Graig Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Templeroan, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork; in Irish An Ghráig Uachtarach
- Area
- 243.3 ha
- 601 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 8,180 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graig Upper, from 454 m² to 204,976 m² (20.5 ha, 50.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Graig 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Apr 2024Conditional
Permission for a domestic shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4650
5 Mar 2024Incompleted application
Permission for a Domestic shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4380
17 Oct 2023Refused
Permission to construct a domestic garage.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6096
25 Feb 2021Conditional
To construct a new agricultural entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4473
7 Dec 2005Conditional
Retention of canopy and extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9045
6 Apr 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2283
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 Graig Upper.
Recorded monuments
- CO018-031 Kiln - lime
Description
On E side of disused trackway/stream bed. Random-rubble sandstone walls encase core. Built in depression; earthen scarps on either side form forecourt area in front of kiln. Front elevation (H 3.5m; Wth 5.4m) faces N; tall lintelled recess (H 2.75m; Wth 1.76m; D 3.75m), sloping slabs at rear. Rear of kiln overgrown, partially infilled stone-lined funnel evident. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Graig 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Graig 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Graig Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Graig Upper · An Ghráig Uachtarach
- Area
- 2,433,351 m² (243.34 ha, 601.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templeroan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Shanballymore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Shanballymore electoral division: 662 people in 238 households; 81% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintlea South, Ballyguyroe North, Ballyguyroe South, Cloustoge, Graig
- Placenames
- Graig 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.