Graigue Upper

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graigue Upper, from 85 m² to 220,220 m² (22.02 ha, 54.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Graigue Upper 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.

• 5 Feb 2023Conditional

  a two storey extension to existing single storey dwelling house, re-modelling of existing single storey cottage, revisions to existing elevations, connection to existing on site services, hard and soft landscaping, thermal upgrading, window and door replacement, new vehicular entrance from access roadway and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360076

• 29 Jul 2022N/a

  renovation of existing dwelling, construct new carport, extend existing domestic garage & upgrade waste water treatment system along with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2260400

• 11 Nov 2021Conditional

  construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, garage, septic tank & percolation area together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 211639

• 14 Nov 2019Conditional

  agricultural entrances and farm, roads as constructed, including all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19601274

• 29 Jan 2019Refused

  agricultural entrances and farm roads as constructed, including all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19600070

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 Graigue Upper.

Recorded monuments

• TN015-072 Barrow - bowl-barrow
  Description

  Located in a prominent position at the N end of a N-S esker ridge. A roughly circular mound (diam. 26.5m N-S; 25.3m E-W) which utilises the N end of the esker and on the W side is enclosed by a fosse (Wth 4m) and stony outer bank (Wth 4.3m; int. H 0.74m; ext. H 3.73m) while there is a steep natural drop on the E side where the mound is c. 11m high. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN015-073001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Located on a slight natural rise. In the mid-eighteenth century it became incorporated in 'Beechwood House', forming a T-projection at the rear. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as an 'old castle and bawne the walls onely standing a garden plott and one thatcht house' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 293). Daniell Hogan is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). A roughly coursed limestone rectangular tower house (dims. 13.1m N-S; c. 8.9m E-W; wall T 2m) with good quoins and base-batter (Wth at base 0.2m; H c. 2.8m). Three storeys survive; higher levels were knocked when the adjoining house was built in 1741 (Craig 1972, 37). The main entrance in the S face has been broken out and provides access from the main house to the tower house. There is a lobby directly in front of the entrance with a guardroom to the W, the main chamber to N and spiral stairs to the E in the SE angle. The door jambs into the guardroom are decorated with chequer-board and lozenge patterns in punch tooling. Between the ground and first-floor levels there is small, barrel-vaulted chamber along the W wall. The first floor is entered through a pointed doorway and is roofed by a pointed vault which has wicker centring. Long sash windows have been inserted in embrasures in the N and W walls. All stair lights, except one, have been replaced or blocked up. The second floor is subdivided, the main chamber occupies the N end and has a large fireplace in the W wall, the lintel of which is missing but the moulded jambs survive in situ. A doorway in an embrasure in the E wall leads to a garderobe chamber with chute in the NE angle; there is also a slop-stone in the E wall of this chamber. Within the S wall of the same embrasure there is a miniature chamber, 0.9m above the floor level. It is entered through a small opening (0.73m x 0.5m) which has an internal spudstone. This chamber is roofed by four stone lintels and has a small flat-headed window in the E wall. In the main chamber a later fireplace has been inserted in the wall. The subsidiary S chamber is lit by a round-headed window in the W wall, and there is a cupboard built into the dividing cross-wall. Corbels at second-floor level supported the wall-plate for the timber floor above - a modern roof now covers the second and part of the third floor. Approximately 20m N of the N face of the tower house are the remains of a bawn wall (TN015-073002-). The foundations of this wall (T c. 1m) appear to continue E. Stored in the ground-floor of the tower house are a number of architectural fragments which presumably belong to the tower house itself. These include two semi-elliptical window heads, one decorated with incised lines, the other bears a date of 1594, carved in false relief, with the initials OH, one letter on either side of the date. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN015-073002 Bawn
  Description

  Located on a slight natural rise. In the mid-eighteenth century it became incorporated in 'Beechwood House', forming a T-projection at the rear. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as an 'old castle and bawne the walls onely standing a garden plott and one thatcht house' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 293). Daniell Hogan is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). A roughly coursed limestone rectangular tower house (TN015-073001) with good quoins and base-batter. Three storeys survive; higher levels were knocked when the adjoining house was built in 1741 (Craig 1972, 37). The main entrance in the S face has been broken out and provides access from the main house to the tower house. Approximately 20m N of the N face of the tower house are the remains of a bawn wall (max. H 0.7m). The foundations of this wall (T c. 1m) appear to continue E. Stored in the ground-floor of the tower house are a number of architectural fragments which presumably belong to the tower house itself. These include two semi-elliptical window heads, one decorated with incised lines, the other bears a date of 1594, carved in false relief, with the initials OH, one letter on either side of the date. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN015-074 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a very gradual N-facing slope surrounded by tillage. A circular area (diam. 27m N-S; 29.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 1.8m) and a fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.9m) with a slight counterscarp bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.3m). The bank and fosse have been subjected to a lot of dumping of clay, stone and wood. Mature trees grow in the interior, including beech, oak and ash. A field bank abuts the site in the NE and SW quadrants. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN015-077001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a SE-facing slope in undulating terrain. The site is quite denuded. A circular area (diam. 33m N-S; 38.2m) enclosed by a bank (reduced to a scarp (H 0.94m)), a fosse (Wth 5.8m; D 0.44m) and a poorly preserved outer bank (Wth 7.2m; ext. H 0.72m), flattened traces of which survive at N and W. There is a possible causewayed entrance in the SE quadrant. Surviving banks of old field boundaries (TN015-077002) run into the outer bank of the ringfort at NE and E and form two roughly D-shaped fields. These are visible on aerial photographs taken in 1973/4 (GSIAP, R 94/3; R 193/4). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN015-077002 Field system
  Description

  Situated on a SE-facing slope in undulating terrain. The site is quite denuded. A circular area (TN015-077001) enclosed by a bank reduced to a scarp, a fosse and a poorly preserved outer bank, flattened traces of which survive at N and W. There is a possible causewayed entrance in the SE quadrant. Surviving banks of old field boundaries (TN015-077002) run into the outer bank of the ringfort at NE and E and form two roughly D-shaped fields. These are visible on aerial photographs taken in 1973/4 (GSIAP, R 94/3; R 193/4). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Beechwood House, country house, 1590–1745 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay three-storey country house, built 1741, with three-bay pedimented breakfront. Two-bay single-storey over basement flanking wings, added 1853. Tower house to rear, built 1594, giving overall T-plan and is multiple-bay three-storey block. Later greenhouse added to north. Hipped and pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with ashlar limestone quoins and with cut limestone panels over wing openings. Square-headed openings with carved limestone surrounds and cut-stone sills, having replacement uPVC windows to front and some six-over-six pane, nine-over-nine pane and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash to rear block. Timber panelled door set in square-headed opening with pedimented carved limestone surround having pulvinated frieze. Extensive outbuildings to west set around central courtyard, comprising multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings with hipped slate and pyramidal roofs and roughcast rendered walls and with ashlar limestone gateway.

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 Graigue Upper, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Graigue Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Graigue Upper · An Ghráig Uachtarach

Area

1,205,851 m² (120.59 ha, 297.97 acres)

Civil parish

Ardcrony, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Ballylusky, the unit of the census

Census 2022

365 people lived in 123 households in the Ballylusky electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyrickard South, Carrickaneagh, Clermont, Graigue, Graigue, Graigue Lower, Killea, Kilruane, Kyle

Placenames

Graigue Upper 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.