Gragara

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gragara, from 37 m² to 301,713 m² (30.17 ha, 74.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Gragara 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.

• 27 Jul 2026Conditional

  for a new single storey three bedroom dwelling, detached domestic garage, new waste water treatment system, new site entrance plus all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2660472

• 1 Apr 2026N/a

  for a new two storey four bedroom dwelling, detached domestic garage, new waste water treatment system, new site entrance plus all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2660191

• 15 Feb 2026Conditional

  To construct a slatted cubicle shed with an underground effluent storage tank, machinery store, calf shed, silage pit and dungstead together with all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660087

• 2 Feb 2026N/a

  To construct a slatted cubicle shed with an underground effluent storage tank, machinery store, calf shed, silage pit and dungstead together with all associated site works.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660059

• 16 May 2025Conditional

  for development. The development will consist of the construction of a new dwelling and garage, site entrance, domestic wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560266

• 14 May 2025N/a

  for the construction of a new dwelling and garage, site entrance, domestic wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary and associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560259

• 14 Mar 2024Conditional

  PERMISSION of a dwelling house as constructed and laid out from previous planning application 99/66 and retention of a block built, single storey garage to the rear and side of the property

  Retention, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460131

• 31 Aug 2022Conditional

  for installation of 128m2 of roof mounted photovoltaic solar panels on an existing cow cubicle house together with all other associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22576

• 16 Aug 2022N/a

  to install 66 solar panels on an existing shed, that was constructed in 2007/8 Kilkenny County Council Planning Ref : 0762

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22531

• 8 Mar 2022N/a

  to build an extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling house, upgrade existing effluent treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22151

• 21 Dec 2021Conditional

  for construction of single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, foul effluent treatment system and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 211046

• 17 Sept 2021Conditional

  to construct a new two storey dwelling also incorporating a single storey section, on-site sewerage treatment, new entrance onto the public road and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21779

• 29 Mar 2021Conditional

  for the following: 2 storey extension to side and single storey extensions to front and rear of existing dwelling, alterations to front elevation to include removal of existing porch and single storey extension in its place, alterations to rear elevation to include 2 no. dormer windows, single storey extension at lower ground floor level plus all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21227

• 4 May 2018Conditional

  for construction of a two storey extension to the front and side of existing dwelling, comprising of extended living space at ground floor and bedroom at first floor, together with all associated site works which include demolition of existing sunroom at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18282

• 4 Sept 2017Conditional

  to construct a slatted cattle shed and walled dungstead together with all other associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17575

• 31 Mar 2017Conditional

  to erect a loose house including a covered slatted slurry storage tank, an uncovered manure pit and ancillary concrete works on my lands

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17207

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• KK010-077 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the flat floor of the Dinin river valley floor, in mixed grass and tillage. There are good views in all directions across the valley. A much disturbed roughly oval area (int. dims. on 25-inch OS map c. 43m N-S; c. 36m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Wth 1.5-2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.3m) and fosse (Wth 2-3m; D 0.3m) and outer bank (Wth 1.5-2m; ext. H 0.2-0.3m). There is an entrance (Wth 4m) in the SE quadrant. There has been some dumping in the interior. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 January 2019

• KK010-116 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On a slight S-facing slope at the edge of the Nore river valley, in rolling grassland. There are good views in all directions, except upslope to N. In a field called 'Castle Meadows'. On the Down Survey (1655-6) Parish map of Mayne, there is a castle called 'Gragicaw' drawn in the northern portion of Gragara which in the mid-17th century was called 'Jinkinstowne' and after the placename is written, 'Countess of Ormond Protestant'. The accompanying terrier records, ‘a Castle at Jenkinstowne’, with the proprietor listed as the ‘Earle of Ormond Ir[ish] Pa[pist]’. Identified during ASI fieldwork (4 August 1987) as a roughly square area (max. dims. 55m by 54m) bounded by a bank (Wth c. 3m; ext. H c. 0.6m) with rounded corners and an external fosse on the E and S sides. There is an entrance to S. The interior is divided into a series of rectangular platforms delimited by banks (Wth 1.5-2m; H c. 0.3m) at SE and SW with a flat area at N. There are other earthworks (KK010-116001-) 80m to the SE, which appear to be connected by a trackway. No masonry structure survives above ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 14 January 2019

• KK010-116001 Earthwork
  Description

  On a slight S-facing slope at the edge of the Nore river valley, in rolling grassland. There are good views in all directions, except upslope to N. In a field called 'Castle Meadows'. These earthworks (KK010-116001-) were identified (ASI fieldwork 4 August 1987) 80m to the SE of others earthworks associated with a castle (KK010-116----). They appear to be connected by a trackway. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 14 January 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Gragara, about 1 in 10 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gragara.

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.

• Gragara, Jenkinstown7 sales

Name

Gragara · Gráig an Rátha

Area

2,405,654 m² (240.57 ha, 594.45 acres)

Civil parish

Mayne, and its townlands

Barony

Fassadinin

Electoral division

Coolcraheen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

532 people lived in 193 households in the Coolcraheen electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyrafton, Esker, Inchakill Glebe, Jenkinstown, Kilcollan, Mohil, Shanganny, Swiftsheath, Tullowglass

Placenames

Gragara 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.