Graigue
Townland in the civil parish of Drom, barony of Eliogarty, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Na Grága
- Area
- 90 ha
- 222 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 3,661 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graigue, from 509 m² to 680,521 m² (68.05 ha, 168.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Graigue 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
14 Aug 2025Conditional
Two storey dwelling, garage, entrance and septic tank
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 25167
5 Jun 2020Conditional
milking parlour, dairy, holding yard, cattle crush and two slatted tanks
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20559
4 Jun 2020N/a
milking parlour, dairy, holding yard, cattle crush and two slatted tanks
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20544
21 May 2020N/a
milking parlour, dairy, holding yard, cattle crush and two slatted tanks
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20484
1 Aug 2018Conditional
dwellinghouse, garage, entrance and septic tank and to carry out all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600961
1 Dec 2017Conditional
to change the house design granted under Planning Permission Ref. 11510044 and Planning Extension Ref. 16600194 from a bungalow to a dormer dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17601325
13 Mar 2017Conditional
to retain a rear domestic extension and 3 number domestic sheds and all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 17600244
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 Graigue.
Recorded monuments
- TN035-006 Enclosure
Description
Situated on the gentle NE-facing slope of a low rise in undulating countryside with a nearby ringfort (TN035-009) to the S. A barely discernible semicircular scarp of earth and stone. Only visible under suitable conditions. 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
- TN035-009 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on the S-facing slope of a natural hillock just below the brow of a hill in undulating countryside with a nearby enclosure site (TN036-006) to the N. A large circular area (diam. 73m NE-SW; 61m NW-SE) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.9m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1-2m) which has been mainly reduced to a scarp with an external fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 1.5m) from W to N only, elsewhere destroyed. No entrance feature visible. A small cairn (H 0.5m; diam. 4m) possibly the result of the construction of a trig. station is built into the SW face of the ringfort. 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 Graigue.
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 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 Graigue.
- 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 Graigue with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Graigue · Na Grága
- Area
- 900,025 m² (90 ha, 222.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drom, and its townlands
- Barony
- Eliogarty
- Electoral division
- Drom, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drom electoral division: 1,212 people in 403 households; 90% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrickloughmore, Knockagh, Larha North, Whitefield
- 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.