Graigeen

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graigeen, from 627 m² to 296,650 m² (29.67 ha, 73.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Graigeen 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.

• 27 Oct 2023Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 23516

• 28 Jul 2023Conditional

  the (a) demolition of chimney stack, (b) construction of single storey extension to side (south), (c) construction of single storey extension to side (north) and rear to create independent living unit attached to existing dwelling, (d) alterations to opes to all elevations, (e) new on-site waste water treatment system (as granted under reg. ref. 19/930) and (f) all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 23393

• 18 Sept 2019Conditional

  alterations of layout, fenestration to existing dwelling, change of use of existing garage to bedroom, the construction of an extension to the existing dwelling and garage to accommodate an independent living unit attached to existing dwelling with a new increase of 103.29 sq.m and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19930

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 Graigeen.

Recorded monuments

• LI020-057 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle SW-facing slope, in area of outcropping limestone. Circular area (diam. 35m) enclosed by broad flat-topped stone bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 0.9m; Wth top 7.15m). Bank best preserved E->S, narrows along NW arc (Wth 4.7m). Ground immediately outside enclosure W->NNW has been cleared by mechanical digger and boulders dumped atop and at external base of bank at NNE and also at SE. No evident break or entrance in enclosing bank. Farm passage passes c. 10m away on W side of enclosure on line of removed field boundary. Interior, covered with nettles, with mature sycamore tree at centre. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Graigeen, about 1 in 5 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_551 (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.

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

Name

Graigeen · Gráigín

Area

491,812 m² (49.18 ha, 121.53 acres)

Civil parish

Nantinan, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Riddlestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

601 people lived in 200 households in the Riddlestown electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardgoul South, Ballingarrane, Stoneville

Placenames

Graigeen 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.