Derrygrath Upper

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrygrath Upper, from 2,384 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres) to 439,544 m² (43.95 ha, 108.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Derrygrath 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Derrygrath Upper 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 Derrygrath Upper.

Recorded monuments

• TS082-013001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a flat-topped E-W ridge in undulating terrain surrounded by pasture. Derrygarth church (TS082-014----) and graveyard (TS082-014001-) visible c. 100m to the S. According to Power (1908, 30) 'a tall and slender pillar stone', possibly a standing stone (TS076-050002-), now missing, stood 'Not many yards from the outer rampart of the lios', near the NE corner of the field. Trivallate ringfort (int. diam. c. 28m; overall diam. c. 70m based on 1904-05 ed. OS 6-inch map), enclosed by an flattened inner bank (Wth 4m crest, 0.2m base; int. H 2.25m; ext. H 3.25m); wide, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 1.8m); middle bank with rounded profile (Wth 2m crest, 4.4m base; ext. H 1.95m); wide, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3m; D 1.5m) and outer bank with rounded profile (Wth 1.8m crest, 4.1m base; ext. H 1.1m), though the outermost bank has been reduced to scarp in the W sector. Banks are earthen with some stone protruding from the inner bank. Fosse quite water-logged in the N-NE sector. The ground is very disturbed in the interior and the inner bank has been levelled from SE-NE-N. In the NNE sector there are small heaps of earth caused by badgers. The interior and most of the banks are heavily overgrown with nettles and brambles. There is no well-defined entrance though there is a slight causeway across the inner fosse at the SE sector. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 January 2014

• TS082-014 Church
  Description

  On a natural rise in undulating terrain, the surrounding fields under pasture, a ringfort (TS082-013----) is located c. 100m to the N. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) the glebeland of the Vicar of 'the Parish of Derragrath' was situated 'west of the Church of Deragrath' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 408). The graveyard (TS082-014001-) is adjacent to the road at the SE, the entrance is through an iron gate or stile. The church is located towards the W end of the graveyard. The church with nave (ext. dims. 13.75m x c. 8m) and chancel (ext. dims. 5.85m x c. 5.8m) is built of a mixture of limestone and sandstone rubble, well-coursed (nave wall 0.8-0.86m T; chancel wall 0.7m T), with a slight base-batter. There is a pronounced high batter on the S wall of the nave but this is the result of later rebuilding as it is keyed into the buttress (T 1.05m at base, tapering towards the top) supporting the S end of the W gable. This rebuild along the W end of the S wall terminates at the probable door embrasure, though there is evidence of an outward splay on the W side of this embrasure. Most of the exterior is ivy clad, though a section of wall was visible on the W gable. The E gable of the nave has a very steep-pitched roof (H c. 6m). There is a narrow single-light window in the W gable. The chamfered, sandstone chancel arch (Wth 2.6m; H 2.92m) survives in good condition. Slots on both inner faces of the arch supported a rood screen. The E gable is gone but most of the chancel is intact. On the S wall of the chancel there is a window embrasure. The return of the E gable survives at the SE angle. The N wall of the chancel is in a ruinous condition. There is evidence of two windows in the nave, on the N and S wall respectively, W of the chancel arch. The window embrasure survives on the S wall, though the single-light is broken out, while there is a breach in the opposite N wall which seems the likely location for another window. There is a break in the masonry on opposing N and S walls towards the W gable, suggesting opposing doorways, no evidence of which remains. The W gable is steep-pitched (c. 4.3m H without the apex). There are fragments of slate roof tiles in the interior of the nave, near the NE angle. The church has been assigned an early 13th-century date based on the 'Transitional chancel arch' (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 133). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS082-014001 Graveyard
  Description

  On a natural rise in undulating terrain, surround fields under pasture. Ringfort (TS082-013----) is located c. 100m to N. The graveyard is adjacent to the road in the SW, the entrance is through an iron gate or stile. The church (TS082-014----) is located towards the W end of this roughly rectangular graveyard (dims. 37m N-S; 77m E-W). In the graveyard there are 18th, 19th and 20th-century headstones. The earliest visible headstone dating to 1755 was in the nave. An earth and stone bank, surmounted by hedgerow, encloses the graveyard. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 January 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Derrygrath Upper, 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 low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derrygrath 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 Derrygrath Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Derrygrath Upper · Deargráth Uachtarach

Area

442,177 m² (44.22 ha, 109.26 acres)

Civil parish

Derrygrath, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa West

Electoral division

Derrygrath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

709 people lived in 244 households in the Derrygrath electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carragaun, Commons-Entire East, Cuckoohill, Derrygrath Lower, Kilmurry, Moorstown

Placenames

Derrygrath 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.