Graigueafulla
Graigueafulla is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmanman, barony of Tinnahinch, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is Gráig an Phollaigh.
- Area
- 399 ha
- 986 acres
- Land parcels
- 120
- registered freehold, median 18,206 m² (1.82 ha, 4.5 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
120 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graigueafulla, from 40 m² to 482,566 m² (48.26 ha, 119.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 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 Graigueafulla 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
28 Sept 2026N/a
construct new slatted cubicle shed with associated soiled water tank, and all ancillary site works. This application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement
Permission · Laois County Council, 2660683
24 Sept 2026N/a
construct new slatted cubicle shed with associated soiled water tank, and all ancillary site works. This application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement
Permission · Laois County Council, 2660674
23 Sept 2026N/a
construct new slatted cubicle shed with associated soiled water tank, and all ancillary site works. This application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement
Permission · Laois County Council, 2660668
9 Apr 2026Conditional
retain a slatted shed extension to existing agricultural building, and all ancillary site works.
Retention · Laois County Council, 2660197
16 Nov 2020Conditional
construct a new slatted tank with associated holding yard, a new silage slab, a new cattle crush and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20593
6 Mar 2020Unconditional
extend time on planning ref. 14/384
Extension of duration · Laois County Council, 20118
17 Jul 2019Conditional
retain change of use from garage to living accommodation, permission to complete house with new layout from previously approved dwelling house under file ref: 15/477 and permission to build detached garage
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19409
26 Jul 2017Conditional
construct dwelling house, detached domestic garage/shed, septic tank, percolation area, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17399
28 Jun 2017Conditional
retain a domestic shed
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17336
21 Jun 2017Conditional
construct a dormer style dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17321
19 Jun 2017N/a
retain a domestic shed
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17314
15 May 2017N/a
construct a dormer style dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17232
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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Graigueafulla.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Graigueafulla.
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 Graigueafulla, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1970 (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 Graigueafulla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Graigueafulla · Gráig an Phollaigh
- Area
- 3,989,791 m² (398.98 ha, 985.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmanman, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tinnahinch
- Electoral division
- Clonaslee, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 954 people lived in 347 households in the Clonaslee electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ashbrook or Aghamore, Cappanagraigue, Clarahill, Cloonagh, Cloonagh More, Corbally, Cush Lower, Glebe, Rathcoffey, Reary More, Rearyvalley or Clonygark
- Placenames
- Graigueafulla 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.