Graigue Upper

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graigue Upper, from 413 m² to 222,136 m² (22.21 ha, 54.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Graigue 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.

• 5 Aug 2026N/a

  to remove an existing detached shed in front of the cottage. To construct a single storey extension to the side of the cottage and a single storey extension to the rear of the cottage, a new packaged wastewater treatment system and a raised soil polishing filter, a new bored well and all associated sites work

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660492

• 22 Jun 2023Conditional

  of 1) extensions and alterations to existing dwelling, 2) revised location of septic tank and percolation area, 3) revised site boundaries and location of entrance, 4) storage shed and dog kennels to the rear of the dwelling and 5) garden shed and all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2360269

• 12 Aug 2021Conditional

  to build a dwelling, domestic garage, entrance, bore well, install septic tank system, including associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21694

• 18 Jun 2021Conditional

  for development at this site. The development will consist of permission for the construction of a single storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21535

• 7 Feb 2020Conditional

  for alteration and extension of existing house to include works to existing garage, associated treatment system works and all site and ancillary works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2069

• 5 Dec 2019Conditional

  for development at this site. The development will consist of a silage pit, concrete yards and ancillary works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19901

• 3 Sept 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear of the existing two storey detached dwelling which will form a link between it and the existing detached garage, the conversion of the garage into a family flat at ground floor level and an attic conversion to form a store room at first floor level and to construct a new separate detached single storey stable building to the rear of the existing two storey detached dwelling and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 19629

• 1 Nov 2018Refused

  The construction of a dormer style dwelling house, stables, new entrance, wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 18725

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 Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Graigue Upper.

Architectural heritage

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

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Graigue Upper, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Graigue Upper · An Ghráig Uachtarach

Area

978,601 m² (97.86 ha, 241.82 acres)

Civil parish

Burnchurch, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelogher

Electoral division

Burnchurch, the unit of the census

Census 2022

617 people lived in 190 households in the Burnchurch electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyda, Ballyroberts, Burnchurch Viper, Cotterellsrath, Dundaryark, Graigue Lower, Newlands, Oldtown

Placenames

Graigue 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.