Graffoge

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graffoge, from 2,132 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 141,557 m² (14.16 ha, 34.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Graffoge 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 Jun 2025Conditional

  demolition works to the North West (front) and South East (rear) elevations of the existing dwelling, the demolition of existing sheds to the North West (front) and North East (side) of the existing dwelling. Proposed new works include a single storey extension to the North East (side) and South East (rear) elevations providing new living areas and bedrooms and new proposed storey and a half extension to the North West (front) elevation to provide 1 no. new first floor bedroom, ensuite and wardrobe area, upgrade of existing roof and fenestration, along with all new internal modifications, the decommissioning of existing septic tank and percolation area and the installation of proprietary wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter, upgrade of existing site entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560116

• 20 Jun 2017Conditional

  construction of a three bay slatted shed to house cattle and ancillary works (i.e. concrete yards, gates and boundaries) all for agricultural purposes only in existing farmyard

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17170

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 Graffoge.

Recorded monuments

• LF010-099 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low rise in undulating pasture. A raised subcircular area ( 35m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.3-5m; H 0.3-0.6m), an intervening fosse (Wth 5.7-5.8m; D 1.5m) and an outer bank (Wth 5.1-6m; H 0.9-1.6m). A break (Wth 4.5m) in the inner bank at ESE marks the original entrance. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a wide, shallow depression of unknown significance inside the bank at N. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 12 January 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Graffoge.

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 Graffoge with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Graffoge · An Ghrafóg

Area

503,969 m² (50.4 ha, 124.53 acres)

Civil parish

Granard, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Milltown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Milltown electoral division: 367 people in 130 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonfin, Coolagherty, Laughil (Edgeworth), Prucklishtown, Willsbrook

Placenames

Graffoge 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.