Graffa Beg
Townland in the civil parish of Islandeady, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Grafadh Beag
- Area
- 54 ha
- 134 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 16,383 m² (1.64 ha, 4.05 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graffa Beg, from 1,804 m² to 124,795 m² (12.48 ha, 30.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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
No zone of a development plan covers Graffa Beg 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
8 Jun 2023Conditional
construct a domestic dwelling house, detached garage, proprietary treatment system and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23321
19 Feb 2021Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE TO THAT GRANTED IN PREVIOUS PLANNING (REF P16/137) TOGETHER WITH CHANGES TO SITE LAYOUT, BOUNDARIES AND ACCESS ROAD. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT TO CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND SERVICES ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21127
12 Feb 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, PROPRIETARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 21108
21 Apr 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17289
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 Graffa Beg.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Graffa Beg.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Graffa Beg.
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 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_312 (ZIP).
- 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 Graffa Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Graffa Beg · An Grafadh Beag
- Area
- 540,299 m² (54.03 ha, 133.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Islandeady, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Burren, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Burren electoral division: 366 people in 130 households; 94% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cornanool, Derryharriff South, Graffa More, Tully, Tully Commons
- Placenames
- Graffa Beg 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.