Graffagh

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graffagh, from 690 m² to 83,861 m² (8.39 ha, 20.72 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 Graffagh 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.

• 23 Sept 2024Conditional

  permission to, demolish 2 no. poultry houses, and, to construct 3 no. poultry houses, 2 No. general purpose storage sheds, and 1 No. office together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bins and soiled water tanks) and site works associated with the above development (in lieu of similar developments previously approved under planning ref: 19/55 & 20/178 which have not yet been completed) on an existing poultry farm

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460354

• 21 Dec 2022Conditional

  permission for development consisting of erection of a two storey dwelling house and domestic garage, insert a filter unit and percolation area, exit on to public road with new entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22525

• 6 Aug 2021Conditional

  permission to construct a new two storey dwelling with attached garage, new entrance and new waste water treatment system together with all associated works and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21448

• 2 Apr 2019Conditional

  Permission to construct a two storey dwelling house & detached domestic garage, Install new mechanical effluent treatment system, mounded soil polishing filter, construct new domestic entrance together with all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19147

• 8 Feb 2019Conditional

  permission to demolish 2 no. poultry houses and to construct 3 no. poultry houses, 1 No. general purpose storage shed, and 1 No. office together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bins and soiled water tanks) and site works (to include upgraded site entrance) associated with the development on an existing poultry farm. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted with this planning application. The planning application and Environmental Impact Assessment Report may be inspected/purchased.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 1955

• 17 Jul 2018Conditional

  erect two-storey dwellinghouse, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, entrance walls and piers together with all ancillary site development works

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 189013

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 Graffagh.

Recorded monuments

• MO008-023 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on a broad N-S ridge. It is depicted as a subcircular wooded feature on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a raised grass-covered area (diam. c. 18m; H c. 1.5-2m) with slight traces of an external fosse or drain and an outer field bank and hedge (diam. 36.3m NW-SE), which is reduced to a scarp and hedge NE-SE and absent W-N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 30 August 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Graffagh.

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 Graffagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Graffagh · Grafach

Area

460,454 m² (46.05 ha, 113.78 acres)

Civil parish

Tedavnet, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Scotstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Scotstown electoral division: 1,208 people in 402 households; 82% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annyeeb, Corrinshigo, Killytur, Mullatigorry, Tirnaskea South

Placenames

Graffagh 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.