Graffoge

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graffoge, from 460 m² to 227,989 m² (22.8 ha, 56.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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.

• 13 Aug 2021Conditional

  construction of a storey and half type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with percolation area and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21239

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

• LF019-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low rise in undulating pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Low, almost circular, dome-shaped mound of earth and stone (c. 28m E-W; c. 27m N-S) defined by a steep scarp (H 1-1.5m). The mound rises 0.3-0.4m above the scarp. It is divided into unequal portions by an E-W field boundary. The scarp has been faced with drystone-walling in relatively modern times. A report in 1986 (SMR file) recorded a fosse; it is no longer identifiable. At S the ground level falls away steeply from the base of the scarp. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 17 November 2011

• LF019-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a very gentle S-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 26m) enclosed by a partially denuded low bank of earth and stone. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded an external fosse, which has since been infilled. A disused laneway from SW-WSW-W may mirror its outline. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 12 January 2012

• LF019-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in reclaimed pasture. Not indicated on the OS 6-inch maps but a curving field boundary on the 1913 ed. may mirror the outline of its S sector. A report in 1986 (SMR file) recorded a raised roughly circular area (c. 28m N-S; c. 26m E-W) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with fragmentary remains of an external fosse. The original entrance was not recognisable. The rath is no longer visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF019-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low ridge in pasture. A slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 26m) enclosed by a narrow low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2m; H 0.2m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded an external fosse, which has since been infilled. From NE-S-W the bank has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. There are modern breaks in the bank at NE and SE but the original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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 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

620,153 m² (62.02 ha, 153.24 acres)

Civil parish

Ardagh, and its townlands

Barony

Moydow

Electoral division

Ardagh West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardagh West electoral division: 509 people in 173 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawn, Derrymore, Drumlougher, Grillagh, Lisduff (montgomery), Nappagh

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.