Graigavern
Townland in the civil parish of Lea, barony of Portnahinch, Co. Laois; in Irish Gráig Ó bhFuaráin
- Area
- 75.6 ha
- 187 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 4,863 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Residential 1 - Existing Residential
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graigavern, from 126 m² to 237,392 m² (23.74 ha, 58.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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
- R2Residential 1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Sept 2025Conditional
change the design of the two storey dwelling house from that previously granted permission with 24/60518 and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560618
23 Sept 2025N/a
change the design of the two storey dwelling house from that previously granted permission with 24/60518 and associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560609
17 Sept 2025N/a
change the design of the two storey dwelling house from that previously granted permission with 24/60518 and associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560593
29 Oct 2024Conditional
RETAIN ENTRANCE AS CONSTRUCTED; CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF LANDS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING FILE REG 2360141 AS STORAGE YARD FOR LANDSCAPING MATERIALS; AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS,
Retention · Laois County Council, 2460655
6 Sept 2024Conditional
construct Two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and Coco filter , new entrance and all associated and necessary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460518
5 Sept 2024N/a
construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and Coco filter , new entrance and all associated and necessary site works.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2460516
17 Apr 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCT SINGLE STOREY DWELLINGHOUSE, GARAGE, ENTRANCE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360141
24 Oct 2019Conditional
construct a new two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19590
2 May 2019Refused
construct a new two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, waste water treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19241
5 Feb 2019Conditional
retain extensions to house
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1970
31 Jan 2019N/a
retain extensions to house
Retention · Laois County Council, 1949
13 Sept 2018Conditional
construct a new two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, septic tank system with percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18558
1 Aug 2018Refused
Construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system with polishing filter, man-made lake/pond for work purposes and a new site entrance
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18463
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 Graigavern.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Graigavern.
Architectural heritage
- Graigueaverne House, gate lodge, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, c. 1840, retaining original fenestration with pointed-arch opening to gable. Now partly derelict.
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 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Graigavern.
- 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 Graigavern with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Graigavern · Gráig Ó bhFuaráin
- Area
- 756,177 m² (75.62 ha, 186.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Portnahinch
- Electoral division
- Jamestown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Jamestown electoral division: 532 people in 174 households; 90% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyadding, Ballybrittas, Closeland or Cloneen, Jamestown or Ballyteigeduff, Tullaghan
- Placenames
- Graigavern 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.