Gragane
Townland in the civil parish of Caherconlish, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Grágán
- Area
- 150.7 ha
- 372 acres
- Land parcels
- 80
- registered freehold, median 2,046 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gragane, from 170 m² to 148,283 m² (14.83 ha, 36.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Caherconlish Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Caherconlish Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
Caherconlish Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick · 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
3 Nov 2025Conditional
construction of a dormer bungalow, together with a new entrance, connections to main services and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 25357
10 May 2024Refused
to construct a new dormer bungalow, together with a new entrance, connections to main services and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24197
14 Feb 2024Conditional
the change of house type under previously permitted Planning Reference Number 21/12 together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460116
26 Feb 2021Conditional
erection of floodlights, a 2.4m high perimeter fence and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 21220
8 Jan 2021Conditional
the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, connections to mains services together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2112
8 Jan 2021Conditional
the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, connections to mains services together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2111
29 Oct 2020N/a
the construction of two entrances & dwelling houses, connections to main services together with all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 201107
15 Feb 2019Conditional
change of site boundary to include the installation of new vehicular entrance and associated development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19132
7 Feb 2019Conditional
raising the level of existing agricultural lands including all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 1999
1 Feb 2019Conditional
a two storey dormer style dwelling which will be accessed with sole use from the existing vehicular site entrance to adjoining dwelling house, connection to public sewer and associated development works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 1980
1 Mar 2018Refused
a two storey dormer style dwelling to include the shared use of existing vehicular site entrance to adjoining dwelling house, connection to public sewer and associated development works
Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18180
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 Gragane.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gragane.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gragane.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Gragane.
- 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 Gragane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Gragane · An Grágán
- Area
- 1,507,136 m² (150.71 ha, 372.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Caherconlish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Caherconlish West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Caherconlish West electoral division: 2,318 people in 774 households; 72% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyvorneen, Boskill, Caherconlish, Caherline, Knockroe, Knockroe (Wilson), Newtown
- Placenames
- Gragane 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.