Graigue Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Killenaule, barony of Slievardagh, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Ghráig Íochtarach
- Area
- 252 ha
- 623 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 4,973 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graigue Lower, from 159 m² to 324,695 m² (32.47 ha, 80.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Lower 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
10 Sept 2026N/a
construction of a single storey dwelling, detached single storey garage, septic tank and percolation area, connection to public water, new site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2660886
3 Sept 2026N/a
construction of a single storey dwelling, treatment tank and percolation area, including all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660860
17 Apr 2025Conditional
the construction of a new slatted shed and underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works. There will be one building and all effluent will be collected and stored in the proposed slatted tank. The slatted shed will be 6.558m in height and is to be constructed on farmland the clients family have been farming for years
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560325
3 Oct 2024Conditional
to build single storey dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, site entrance and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 24224
26 Sept 2024N/a
to build a single storey dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, site entrance and associated site works.
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 24218
10 Nov 2022Conditional
milking parlour building incorporating holding yard with crush/drafting yard, meal bin, office, flow channel, storage rooms, plant rooms with underground effluent tanks (ii) cubicle shed with underground effluent tanks, loose area (iii) walled silage slab (iv) new agricultural entrance with access roadway and hardcore area and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260608
16 Nov 2020Conditional
construction of a 4 bay cattle house with ancillary effluent storage tank with slats over
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201347
2 Jul 2018Conditional
house extension, to provide additional accommodation to facilitate care for elderly occupant, septic tank and percolation are and associated site works. And Retention Permission for a previous extension
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600836
8 Jun 2018N/a
house extension, to provide additional accommodation to facilitate care for elderly occupant, septic tank and percolation area and associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600738
31 Oct 2017Conditional
construction of a new two-storey dwelling, with packaged waste water treatment system and polishing filter, vehicular entrance and associated site boundary and site development work
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17601193
4 Jul 2017Conditional
construction of a single storey dwelling, with detached domestic garage, septic tank and puraflo effluent treatment , new site entrance with boundary set back, new site boundaries and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17600745
10 Mar 2017Conditional
development of a dwelling consisting of a dormer bungalow, garage, connection to public water mains, waste water treatment tank and percolation area, new entrance for dwelling and new entrance for field for farming purposes and all associated ground work
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17600240
17 Jan 2017Conditional
on the grant of outline permission ref 16600042 to construct a dormer dwelling, garage, entrance, waste treatment system with percolation area, connection to mains water supply, soakpits and all other associated site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17600020
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 Lower.
Recorded monuments
- TS054-065 Ringfort - rath
Description
In woodland on an E-facing slope of rising ground in upland area with good views in all directions, now restricted by planted woodland. In recently planted ash tree plantation. The planting has been kept 15m away from the base of the monument on all sides. Roughly D-shaped area (diam. 24m N-S; 28m E-W) with straight side (L 28m) at E, enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 1.6m; base Wth 3m; ext. H 0.4-1m; int. H 0.4m) and outer fosse (base Wth 2.5m; top Wth 3.5m; ext. D 0.9m) visible from S to W, elsewhere filled in, with possible entrance gap (Wth 4m) at E. Gap (Wth 1.5m) in bank at W, possible modern gap, second gap in bank (Wth 2m) at S also appears to be a modern gap. Interior covered in thorn bushes and perimeter of ringfort planted with hazel beech and sycamore trees. 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 Graigue Lower.
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 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 Graigue Lower.
- 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 Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Graigue Lower · An Ghráig Íochtarach
- Area
- 2,520,381 m² (252.04 ha, 622.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killenaule, and its townlands
- Barony
- Slievardagh
- Electoral division
- Killenaule, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killenaule electoral division: 1,223 people in 486 households; 67% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyphilip, Crosscannon, Garrane, Graigue Upper, Kilkennybeg, Mortlestown, Rathroe, Roan
- Placenames
- Graigue Lower 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.