Littlegrace
Littlegrace is a townland in the civil parish of Knockmourne, barony of Kinatalloon, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Littlegrace.
- Area
- 20.6 ha
- 51 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 194,213 m² (19.42 ha, 47.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Littlegrace, from 194,213 m² (19.42 ha, 47.99 acres) to 194,213 m² (19.42 ha, 47.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 4 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 Littlegrace 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
5 Aug 2026Conditional
The development will consist of the construction of an underpass, approach ramps, retaining walls, drainage and associated site works. The Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. The Natura Impact Statement will be available for inspection or purchase at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy during office hours at the offices of the Planning Authority.
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2660582
31 Jul 2026N/a
construction of an underpass, approach ramps, retaining walls, drainage and associated site works. The Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. The Natura Impact Statement will be available for inspection or purchase at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy during office hours at the offices of the Planning Authority.
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2660571
13 Nov 2025Awaiting f.i. response
Permission for construction of an underpass, approach ramps, retaining walls, relocated cattle crush, drainage and associated site works. The Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6460
7 Oct 2025Invalid - prepare letters
Permission for the construction of an underpass, approach ramps, retaining walls, drainage and associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the proposed development and accompanies this application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6121
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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Littlegrace.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Littlegrace.
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 Littlegrace, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1501 (ZIP).
- 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 Littlegrace with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Littlegrace · Littlegrace
- Area
- 206,488 m² (20.65 ha, 51.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Knockmourne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinatalloon
- Electoral division
- Curraglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 429 people lived in 144 households in the Curraglass electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Belvidere, Coolydoody South (Co. Waterford), Glenatore Lower, Limekilnclose (Co. Waterford), Limekilnclose, Littlegrace (Co. Waterford), Rosybower, Sion (Co. Waterford)
- Placenames
- Littlegrace 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.