Graffan

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graffan, from 166,064 m² (16.61 ha, 41.04 acres) to 373,308 m² (37.33 ha, 92.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 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 Graffan 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Graffan in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Graffan.

Recorded monuments

• OF044-009 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on rising ground in undulating countryside. Present remains consist of a sub-circular shaped area (diam. 27m N-S) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank (Wth 3m) reduced in places to a scarp and elsewhere enhanced by dumping of field clearance debris. No evidence of an outer fosse or entrance feature. Field fence intersects site at NW. The presence of beech trees along the perimeter of the enclosure, its location on demsene land and its depiction on the OS 6-inch map suggest that this may be the site of a tree-ring. May have been a ringfort that was reused as a tree-ring. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF044-010 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Described in 1984-5 as a ringfort that was levelled in the 1950s and consisted of a circular area (diam. approx. 30m) enclosed by a bank and situated inside a forested area (Stout 1984-5). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF044-011001 House - 17th century
  Description

  Situated on top of a natural rise in undulating countryside with late medieval parish church (OF044-011002-) immediately to the E. Mid to late 17th-century gabled house two storeys high with attic and a protruding gable ended chimney stack at E gable. T-plan house (E-W dims. 17.6m; N- S 8.6m; wall T 0.9m) with the stairs being carried in a small square shaped tower (E-W 4.4m; N-S 3.75m ; wall T 0.9m) which has a two centred pointed door in its E wall, located along the centre of the N wall. The ground floor can be accessed from this tower although the ground floor main entrance is via a two centred pointed doorway with horizontal grooved dressing on the chamfered jambs at the S end of the W gable. The ground floor was divided by a wooden partition now destroyed, the W room at ground floor was heated by a large fireplace at the W end of the N wall and the E room was heated by a fireplace in the E gable. Both fireplaces have protruding chimney stacks. There are three windows on the S wall at each level with the attic having two small windows on either side of the chimney stack on the E and W gable. There are several other blocked up windows at ground floor level on the E gable and N wall. The first floor was also divided into two rooms with a fireplace in the E gable and W end of the N wall. The stone dressing and door type along with the protruding chimney stacks and external stairs all indicate a mid to late 17th-century date. This was probably the house of the priest who used the nearby church (OF044-011002-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF044-011002 Church
  Description

  Situated on top of a natural rise in undulating countryside with 17th-century house (OF044-011001-) to the W. Only the S wall survives of this nave and chancel church with the wall footings of the N wall barely visible. The Nave (6.5m N-S; 12m E-W; wall T 0.8m) has a single light window at the E end of the S wall. Only a small portion of the S wall of the chancel (4m N-S; 5m E-W) survives. No other features visible. The church is located in the centre of a graveyard (OF044-011003-) which contains 18th/19th-century headstones enclosed by a modern stone wall. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF044-011003 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on top of a natural rise in undulating countryside with 17th-century house (OF044-011001-) to the W. Only the S wall survives of this nave and chancel church (OF044-011002-) with the wall footings of the N wall barely visible. The church is located in the centre of a graveyard which contains 18th/19th-century headstones enclosed by a modern stone wall. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Graffan.

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 Graffan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Graffan · Grafainn

Area

540,684 m² (54.07 ha, 133.61 acres)

Civil parish

Templeharry, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Templeharry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Templeharry electoral division: 215 people in 86 households; 85% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintemple, Emmel East, Gorraun, Knockbrack

Placenames

Graffan 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.