Graffa More
Graffa More is a townland in the civil parish of Islandeady, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Grafadh Mór.
Parcel 994136
- Area
- 997 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 252 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Graffa More
Planning applications on this parcel
2 May 2026Conditional
Planning permission for development comprising; (1) Retention of single storey dwelling house on amended site boundaries from that granted under previous planning ref P79/2124. (2) Permission to install a new wastewater treatment system together with associated and ancillary site development works and services above and below ground at Graffamore, Castlebar, County Mayo.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660347
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_312 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 194.3 ha
- 480 acres
- Land parcels
- 82
- registered freehold, median 10,431 m² (1.04 ha, 2.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graffa More, from 322 m² to 104,607 m² (10.46 ha, 25.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 44 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Graffa More 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Jun 2026Conditional
Planning Permission to retain and complete slatted shed as build and planning permission to construct extension to hay shed all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660482
2 May 2026Conditional
Planning permission for development comprising; (1) Retention of single storey dwelling house on amended site boundaries from that granted under previous planning ref P79/2124. (2) Permission to install a new wastewater treatment system together with associated and ancillary site development works and services above and below ground at Graffamore, Castlebar, County Mayo.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660347
20 Dec 2024Refused
(1) Construction of a new detached dwelling house, (2) Construction of a domestic garage, and(3) proposed effluent treatment system and percolation area with all associated site works at, Graffa More, Castlebar, Co.Mayo.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560003
8 Jun 2023Conditional
construct a domestic dwelling house, detached garage, proprietary treatment system and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23321
3 Aug 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21829
14 May 2021Conditional
RETAIN 2 NO. EXTENSIONS CONSTRUCTED TO INDUSTRIAL WORKSHOP PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER P93/454 AS WELL AS SEPARATE BUILDING CONTAINING ELECTRICAL SWITCH ROOM AND TOOL SHED
Retention · Mayo County Council, 21485
19 Feb 2021Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE TO THAT GRANTED IN PREVIOUS PLANNING (REF P16/137) TOGETHER WITH CHANGES TO SITE LAYOUT, BOUNDARIES AND ACCESS ROAD. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT TO CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND SERVICES ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21127
12 Feb 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, PROPRIETARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 21108
17 Sept 2020Refused
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20666
9 Jul 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT NEW DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, SEPARATE GARAGE, NEW ENTRANCE, NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, CONNECTIONS TO SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND LANDSCAPING.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20448
23 Aug 2019Refused
CONSTRUCT DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, SEPARATE GARAGE, NEW ENTRANCE, NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, CONNECTIONS TO SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19656
22 May 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT EXTENSION TO AND REDEVELOPMENT OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18371
24 Oct 2017N/a
CONSTRUCT REVISED DWELLINGHOUSE TO THAT GRANTED UNDER P16/488
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17844
21 Apr 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17289
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Graffa More.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Graffa More.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Graffa More.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- 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, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_312 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Graffa More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Graffa More · An Grafadh Mór
- Area
- 1,942,597 m² (194.26 ha, 480.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Islandeady, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Burren, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 366 people lived in 130 households in the Burren electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carha, Cornanool, Cummer, Derrycoosh, Derryharriff South, Graffa Beg, Tawnyeeny
- Placenames
- Graffa More 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.