Graigues

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graigues, from 349 m² to 250,112 m² (25.01 ha, 61.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Graigues 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 Graigues 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Askeaton Fen Complex SAC 002279
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballymorrisheen Marsh 001425

Recorded monuments

• LI020-021 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In area covered by scrub vegetation, atop low limestone hillock. Circular area (diam. 26m) enclosed by collapsed dry-stone bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.75m). Bank best preserved S->WSW, becomes scarp-like (H 0.9m) WSW->WNW. Dry-stone field wall abuts bank at WNW, running along top to NE where it runs away to E from enclosure. Vegetation overgrowth obscures enclosing bank E->S. Field walls run close to base of external bank face along E and S sides, forming corner of field at SE. Interior uneven with loose stone and wood strewn about, slopes down to SE. Interior divided by low stone bank (H 0.45m), just E-of-centre, on NE-SW axis; area to W of dividing bank is slightly higher than remainder of interior. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI020-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In area covered by dense scrub overgrowth, on W-facing hill-slope. Monument, depicted as circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is now completely covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI020-023 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In area covered by dense scrub. Site depicted as roughly circular hachured area (diam. c. 30m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is now masked by dense vegetation overgrowth, with only a short stretch of enclosing stone bank visible where it borders trackway NNW->NE. Bank (int. H 1.15m; ext. H 1.35m), worn down by cattle accessing interior at NNW, has sheer external face along trackway. Interior inaccessible due to dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI020-025 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, atop hill, in area of outcropping limestone. Monument, depicted as circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been partially levelled. Site survives as semi-circular slightly raised area (30m NE-SW; 14.5m NW-SE) enclosed by stone bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.75m) SW->ENE and defined by field boundary on SE side. No visible surface trace of bank to S of field boundary. Level interior, covered with trees, has limestone outcrop near centre. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI020-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on break in N-facing slope. Circular area (26.7m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.35m). Bank, best preserved NW->ENE, is incorporated into field boundary system ENE->SSE where dry-stone field wall runs along top. Bank is clipped by linear field wall WSW->NW. Level interior under rough pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Graigues, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Graigues with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Graigues · Na Grága

Area

938,372 m² (93.84 ha, 231.88 acres)

Civil parish

Nantinan, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Nantinan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

714 people lived in 254 households in the Nantinan electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybaun, Ballyhibbin, Ballymorrisheen, Gorteennamrock, Kilbehy, Loughaun

Placenames

Graigues 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.