Graffin
Townland in the civil parish of Kilpatrick, barony of Kilnamanagh Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Ghrafainn
- Area
- 88.6 ha
- 219 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 4,624 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graffin, from 15 m² to 307,921 m² (30.79 ha, 76.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Graffin 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
17 Apr 2026N/a
the demolition of an existing single storey cottage and to erect a new single storey dwelling in its place, to replace the existing septic tank with a new effluent treatment unit and percolation system and all other ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2660327
16 Mar 2020Conditional
the demolition of existing dwelling, the construction of a 2 storey dwelling, new waste water treatment system, relocation of existing vehicular access, Retention Permission for existing garage building and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 20264
6 Mar 2020N/a
the demolition of existing dwelling, the construction of a 2 storey dwelling, new waste water treatment system, relocation of existing vehicular access, Retention Permission for existing garage building and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20201
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Annacarty Wetlands 000639
Recorded monuments
- TS051-035 Ringfort - rath
Description
Just off summit of hill on a SSW-facing slope with good extensive views in all directions with nearby moated site (TS051-034----) c. 400 to NW. Monument consists of a raised platform enclosed by a low bank (wth 2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m) only preserved at NE, elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 0.7-1m) with steep drop enclosing the ringfort from S through W to SW. This cliff face may be the result of modern quarrying which has cut away the W face of the hill on top of which the ringfort is located thus giving the monument a modern cliff edge location. The interior of the ringfort follows that natural slope of the hill from N to S with no clear evidence of an entrance feature or outer fosse. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Graffin.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Graffin.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Graffin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Graffin · An Ghrafainn
- Area
- 886,154 m² (88.62 ha, 218.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilpatrick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilnamanagh Lower
- Electoral division
- Kilpatrick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilpatrick electoral division: 1,018 people in 378 households; 75% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Kilpatrick, Knockgorman, Mealclye, Rossacrow
- Placenames
- Graffin 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.