Graig

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graig, from 102 m² to 274,302 m² (27.43 ha, 67.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Graig 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.

• 9 Dec 2024Conditional

  a dormer dwelling house, detached domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, entrance, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2461230

• 16 May 2023Conditional

  the fill of low lying land with topsoil, subsoil, rock and construction and demolition waste to raise the level of the land for agricultural purposes

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23254

• 25 Sept 2020Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling, garage, septic tank, percolation area, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20967

• 1 Apr 2020Conditional

  construction of a new single storey dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20273

• 18 Apr 2018Conditional

  filling low lying land with topsoil, subsoil, rock and construction and demolition waste to raise the level of land for agricultural purposes

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18374

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 Graig.

Recorded monuments

• LI038-109 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on E-facing slope immediately below brow of hill. Circular area (diam. 26m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.8m), best preserved W->N but slightly lowers at S for c. 8m. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to E. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI038-112 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing hill slope. Sub-circular area (33.4m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (D 0.55m; Wth 3m). Field boundaries skirt along outer edge of fosse at NW and E, forming field corner immediately outside enclosure at NNE. Bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.75m), best preserved NE->SE, is heavily masked by overgrowth SW->NW. Fosse, best preserved N->ESE, has recently been infilled at ESE to allow access to interior. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI038-114 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on steep SE-facing slope immediately below brow of hill. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (D 1.15m; Wth 1.6m), both heavily masked by overgrowth. Bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.8m), best preserved along SW arc, becomes scarp-like E->SE. Break in bank (Wth 3.4m) at E. Fosse, littered with loose stone, is best preserved NW->NE where it is clear from overgrowth. Interior, under rough pasture, slopes down to SE but levels-off in SE quadrant. Earth-and-stone field boundary (ext. H 0.7m) skirts along outer edge of fosse NE->NW; enclosing bank abutted by similar boundaries at NE, S and NW respectively. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI038-115 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle SE-facing slope. Circular area (29.9m N-S; 27.8m E-W) enclosed by eroded earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.2m) with external fosse (D 0.5m; Wth 1.1m). Level interior under pasture. Field boundary skirts enclosure N->S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI038-116 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular area (c. 35m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.9m; ext. H 4.7m) with external waterlogged fosse (D 2.7m; Wth 2.7m) S->E; enclosing element has been levelled E->S. Interior and enclosing element covered by dense overgrowth. Gaps in bank at NW, NNW, SE and SSE; NW gap has curving ramp dropping down into fosse; SSE gap approached from outside by two very-low parallel earthen banks c. 10m apart and c. 15m in length. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI038-117 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on crest of low rise. Circular area (100m NW-SE) defined by scarped edge (H c. 1m; Wth 2.1m) with external fosse (D 0.4m; Wth 1.4m) SW->NNE, by barely perceptible scarped edge NNE->SE, and by field boundary overlying scarp SE->SW. Gap in bank at N (Wth 2.2m). Interior rises gently towards centre. Low parallel undulations in NW quadrant may be remains of cultivation ridges. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 322/20A, 22A, 24A, 25A, 26A on 05/10/2002.

• LI038-118 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture. Roughly circular area (31.5m NE-SW) enclosed by eroded earthen bank (H c. 0.5m) with barely perceptible external fosse. A field boundary abuts bank at E. Level interior under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI038-146 Stone row
  Description

  Stone row discovered during fieldwork in Co. Limerick. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 27 April 2021

• LI038-147001 Burial ground
  Description

  No evident trace any archaeological feature in field known locally as "Killeen" and which is said to have contained a burial ground. According to the landowner a 'water font' (LI038-147002-) was found some time past when this field was ploughed. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 27 August 2012

• LI038-147002 Font
  Description

  No evident trace any archaeological feature in field known locally as "Killeen" and which is said to have contained a burial ground (LI038-147001-). According to the landowner a 'water font' (LI038-147002-) was found some time past when this field was ploughed. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 27 August 2012

• LI038-159 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on steep S-facing slope immediately below brow of hill. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), has been levelled. However, slight trace of an earthen bank (H c. 0.1m) can be traced WNW->N. Interior, under pasture, slopes down sharply to S following gradient of surrounding terrain. A field boundary clips bank at NE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI038-166 Earthwork
  Description

  In rough pasture on N-facing slope, 95m E of townland boundary with Ballyguileataggle. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a sunken rectangular-shaped area or hollow depression (dims. c. 18m N-S x 18m E-W) in the NE corner of field transected at N and E post-1700 field boundaries running NW-SE and N-S. Monument visible as a scrub-covered roughly circular shaped area transected at N and E by levelled field boundaries on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018. Doubtful antiquity could be the remains of a small quarry or gravel pit. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 17 April 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 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 Graig.

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.

No address of the register names Graig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Graig · An Ghráig

Area

1,971,876 m² (197.19 ha, 487.26 acres)

Civil parish

Corcomohide, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castletown electoral division: 396 people in 138 households; 85% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyguileataggle, Ballyguilebeg, Cappananty, Cappanihane, Castletown, Dreenaan, Graigbeg

Placenames

Graig 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.