Graiguefrahane

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graiguefrahane, from 138 m² to 727,508 m² (72.75 ha, 179.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G1Amenity (Open space, park)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 15 Oct 2024Conditional

  an extension to rear of existing house to include increased kitchen living area, new septic tank and percolation area along with revised site boundaries

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460881

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ormond's Mill, Loughmoe, Templemore 002066

Recorded monuments

• TN035-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on natural rock outcrop in undulating countryside with a nearby fortified house (TN035-030) to the W. A raised circular area (diam. 41m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1.5m) which is intersected at E by a modern field fence. No fosse or entrance feature visible. 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

• TN035-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low rise of natural rock outcrop in flat pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 32m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.6m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 1.2m) mainly reduced to a scarp with a possible destroyed entrance at W. The S sector of the interior and the bank have been destroyed by uprooted trees. 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

• TN035-037 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on high ground in undulating countryside with a fortified house (TN035-030----) to the NW. Cited as a Purcell castle in the OS Letters where it is described as the 'old Castle of Cloghleigh' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 181). Depicted as a rectangular structure with its long axis aligned N-S on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. On the revised OS 6-inch map only the N wall and N section of the W wall and N return of the NE angle of the castle walls were depicted. No visible remains at ground level. 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. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 19 September 2016

• TN035-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low rise of ground in undulating pasture. A circular area (diam. 23m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m) and outer fosse (Wth 1.6m; D 0.2m) with no entrance feature visible. A laneway intersects the fosse at SE as indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. 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

• Mill (water), 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Five-bay five-storey former timber and corn mill, built c.1800, now disused. Half-hipped slate roof to mill. Snecked rubble limestone walls. Square-headed openings with cut stone sills to windows. Millrace runs through west end of building, with arches in north and south elevations. Two-bay two-storey former manager's house attached to east with six-bay two-storey late twentieth-century gable-fronted extension with attic storey. Pitched reslated roof, random coursed dressed limestone walls. Square-headed windows and door, with later dormer windows, having two-over-two pane timber sash windows to house. Two-bay lodge with one-bay outbuilding attached at entrance with pitched slate and tile roof, rubble limestone walls and square-headed openings.

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 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 Graiguefrahane.

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

Name

Graiguefrahane · Gráig Phracháin

Area

2,009,546 m² (200.95 ha, 496.57 acres)

Civil parish

Loughmoe East, and its townlands

Barony

Eliogarty

Electoral division

Loughmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Loughmore electoral division: 662 people in 231 households; 91% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clogharaily Beg, Clonamuckoge More, Clondoty, Curraghmore, Gortreagh, Kilbrickane, Kilnaseer, Rocker, Tinvoher

Placenames

Graiguefrahane 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.