Curraghgraigue Upper

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Curraghgraigue Upper, from 22 m² to 22 m². The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Curraghgraigue 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 Curraghgraigue 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 Curraghgraigue Upper.

Recorded monuments

• TN027-090 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a break in a steep NW-facing slope, with a sharp rise immediately SE of the site, in pastureland. The site was transected by a townland boundary on a NE-SW axis. The present remains consist of a circular platform (diam. 21.8m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1m), a fosse (Wth 5.6m), and a low curving bank (Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.19m). Traces of an external fosse (Wth 3.6m; D 0.24m) are evident on the S side of the townland boundary. 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

• TN027-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated just off the crest of a hill, sloping to the NW, in pasture. A circular area (diam. 26.8m N-S; 26.5m E-W) defined by a bank of gravelly clay and stone (Wth 5m; int. H 0.54m; ext. H 2m) and a slight outer fosse (Wth 4.5m; D 0.17m). There is a small gap (Wth 1.4m) in the bank in the SW quadrant. The bank has been planted with larch trees as is part of interior which slopes to the NW. 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

• TN027-092 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a steep E-facing slope in pasture, off the brow of a hill. A circular area (diam. 24.7m N-S; 24.5m E-W) defined by a bank of clay and gravel (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.1m) and a fosse visible in the NW quadrant only (Wth 3.6m; D 0.42m). There is a possible entrance gap (Wth c. 3.5m) at NW. The interior slopes steeply to E following the line of the slope. A trackway skirts the monument along from NE to S to W. Larch trees grow on the inner and outer edges of the bank and according to the landowner these were planted c. 50 years ago. This site may have been reused as a tree-ring. 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

• TN027-093 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a NE-facing slope of a ridge, in pasture. A univallate ringfort defined by a earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 2.1m) and outer fosse (Wth 4.7m; D 1.14m) with an entrance gap (Wth 1.9m) in the NE quadrant. The interior is planted with trees, roughly in E-W rows. The fosse becomes shallow downslope and is not visible SE-E-NE. Elsewhere the fosse is broad, shallow, and U-shaped, deepest at S and N-NW. Upslope from W-SW the fosse has been filled with stones and is mostly grassed over. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curraghgraigue 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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Curraghgraigue Upper · An Chorrghráig Uachtarach

Area

750,653 m² (75.07 ha, 185.49 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnaneave, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Upper

Electoral division

Kilnaneave, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilnaneave electoral division: 474 people in 172 households; 90% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curraghgraigue Lower, Killavalla, Kilnaneave, Knockacraheen, Knockadigeen, Millbrook

Placenames

Curraghgraigue 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.