Graigueagarran

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graigueagarran, from 210 m² to 352,776 m² (35.28 ha, 87.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Graigueagarran 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.

• 16 Jun 2023Conditional

  renovate existing dwelling ruin, construct extension to two bedroom dwelling house, a new treatment system and percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360229

• 13 Jun 2023N/a

  renovate existing dwelling ruin, construct extension to two bedroom dwelling house, a new treatment system and percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works The existing dwelling ruin has not been lived in since the 1920's, the original roof collapsed in the 1970's and some alterations to place to put a corrugated roof on it, it is proposed to restore the existing building to its original condition using conservation principles such as traditional slates, oak beam heads, lime mortar plaster and lime mortar bedding to existing stone walls, the new extension would be built with current building methods which will be hidden from the public road

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360220

• 10 Jun 2023N/a

  renovate existing dwelling ruin, construct extension to two bedroom dwelling house, a new treatment system and percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works The existing dwelling ruin has not been lived in since the 1920's, the original roof collapsed in the 1970's and some alterations to place to put a corrugated roof on it, it is proposed to restore the existing building to its original condition using conservation principles such as traditional slates, oak beam heads, lime mortar plaster and lime mortar bedding to existing stone walls, the new extension would be built with current building methods which will be hidden from the public road

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360212

• 8 Jun 2023N/a

  renovate existing dwelling ruin, construct extension to two bedroom dwelling house, a new treatment system and percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works. The existing dwelling ruin has not been lived in since the 1920's, the original roof collapsed in the 1970's and some alterations to place to put a corrugated roof on it, it is proposed to restore the existing building to its original condition using conservation principles such as traditional slates, oak beam heads, lime mortar plaster and lime mortar bedding to existing stone walls, the new extension would be built with current building methods which will be hidden from the public road

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360209

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 Graigueagarran.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Graigueagarran.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Graigueagarran, 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

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

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 Graigueagarran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Graigueagarran · Gráig an Ghearráin

Area

1,337,386 m² (133.74 ha, 330.48 acres)

Civil parish

Erke, and its townlands

Barony

Clarmallagh

Electoral division

Rathdowney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,317 people lived in 524 households in the Rathdowney electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinfrase, Ballydavin, Oldtown, Rapla, Srah, Srahbaun, Srahleagh

Placenames

Graigueagarran 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.