Graigue

768 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graigue, from 0 m² to 20,092 m² (2.01 ha, 4.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 55 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

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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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• CW007-018003 Bridge
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Down Survey (1655-6) map shows stone bridge over Barrow and timber bridge over Burren, both of which appear to have been built before sixteenth century. Present bridges are modern but may be located close to or on sites of original bridges. (Bradley 1989, 5)

Architectural heritage

• Killeshin Church, church/chapel, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-cell granite built Gothic Revival Church of Ireland church, c. 1827, with projecting entrance bays, clasping buttresses, lancet-arch window openings, tower having spire and chancel. Designed by John Semple. Interior remodelled, c. 1880.

• Killeshin Church, church/chapel, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay Georgian Gothic style Church of Ireland church, c. 1830, with spire and chancel.

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, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2459 (ZIP).

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

Name

Graigue · An Ghráig

Area

520,461 m² (52.05 ha, 128.61 acres)

Civil parish

Killeshin, and its townlands

Barony

Slievemargy

Electoral division

Graigue Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,655 people lived in 713 households in the Graigue Urban electoral division. 51% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carlow, Crossneen (Co. Laois), Graigue (Co. Laois), Strawhall

Placenames

Graigue 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.