Graigabbey South

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graigabbey South, from 68 m² to 271,398 m² (27.14 ha, 67.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Graigabbey South 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 Graigabbey South 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 Graigabbey South.

Recorded monuments

• GA084-083001 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA084-083002 Architectural fragment
  Description

  This worked triangular piece of limestone is the spandrel of a cusped tracery window. It is grooved along both sides and the bottom for the insertion of glass. Its original location is unknown but it is possible that may be associated with either of two churches (GA084-127002- and GA071-082003-) in Templemoyle townland c. 2km to the N. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 18 November 2016

Architectural heritage

• Graigabbey House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, having recessed three-bay two-storey return to rear. Rear also has two-storey two-bay block with pitched roof to east side, single-bay two-storey flat-roofed extension to west side, and two-bay single-storey addition to centre. Hipped slate roof to main block, having clay ridge tiles with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roofs to return and rear blocks. Roughcast rendered walls throughout. Square-headed window openings with stone sills throughout. Timber sliding sash windows, main block having one-over-one pane to ground floor of front elevation and to gables, and two-over-two pane windows to to other openings. Fixed multiple-pane timber-framed windows to single-storey extension. Segmental-headed front door opening having cut limestone block-and-start surround with fluted triple keystone and timber panelled door and plain fanlight, and flanked by square-headed sidelights with stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to rear extension having replacement timber door. Property set within its own grounds. Ruined roofless outbuilding to site. Gatway to road comprises dressed limestone square-plan piers, higher to vehicular entrance and lower to flanking pedestrian entrances, with cast-iron pedestrian gates.

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 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_897 (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.

No address of the register names Graigabbey South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Graigabbey South · An Ghráig Theas

Area

1,407,835 m² (140.78 ha, 347.88 acres)

Civil parish

Monivea, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Graigabbey, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Graigabbey electoral division: 421 people in 135 households; 90% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboggan, Binn, Carrowntober East, Carrowntober West, Gloves Middle, Graigabbey, Kilcornan

Placenames

Graigabbey South 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.