Graigue

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graigue, from 1,667 m² to 256,718 m² (25.67 ha, 63.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Graigue 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.

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  for ground-mounted photovoltaic solar panels with a maximum actual square metreage of 1,340 m2 distributed over three grass areas and an embankment in combination with associated ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461798

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Graigue.

Recorded monuments

• GA105-107 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On the grounds of a golf course to the N of Loughrea town. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a rectangular children's burial ground (c. 20m ENE-WSW; c. 10m N-S). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 30 August 2019

• GA105-215 Souterrain
  Description

  On a low rise. This well-preserved drystone-built souterrain (L >12m) was discovered in 1990 during the course of work to extend the golf course in Loughrea. It consists of two chambers connected by a creep and is T-shaped in plan. Access was gained to the 1st chamber (L 8m, Wth 2.3m), running NE-SW, at a breach caused by a JBC. A short creep (L 0.8m; Wth 0.85m) at its NE end lead to the 2nd chamber (L 3.3m, Wth 1.5m) which runs NW-SE. This chamber was blocked by collapse at its SE end. During a partial excavation which took place following the discovery, the original entrance was located at SE end of the 2nd chamber. A corroded iron spearhead, possibly dating to 9th or 10th C, was recovered immediately outside it. Other finds of 20th-C glass indicated that the souterrain was open c. 60 years ago and this was confirmed by local information (Fitzpatrick 1990). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 31 May 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1013 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Graigue · An Ghráig

Area

1,108,877 m² (110.89 ha, 274.01 acres)

Civil parish

Loughrea, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Loughrea Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Loughrea Rural electoral division: 898 people in 307 households; 92% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygasty, Caheronaun, Coorbaun, Curraghroe, Curraghs, Kincullia, Lackalea

Placenames

Graigue 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.