Graigue
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltegan, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Ghráig
- Area
- 101.9 ha
- 252 acres
- Land parcels
- 49
- registered freehold, median 4,416 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graigue, from 72 m² to 317,330 m² (31.73 ha, 78.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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
9 Dec 2025Conditional
renovations and modifications carried out to the existing dwelling including a relocation of the front entrance door, a rear extension and conversion of part of the roof attic area to habitable space including the construction of dormer window to the rear
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2561002
22 May 2025Conditional
renovations and modifications that have been made to the existing dwelling and garden shed. The works to the dwelling include a new roof, modifications to the front porch, a rear extension and a new window constructed on the southern elevation. Works to the garage include a new roof, a new window and a new door
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560379
19 Dec 2024Conditional
change of use (removal of condition 2(a) of PRR 08/1430) from restricted use as a person engaged in agriculture to use by all classes of persons
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24497
4 Dec 2024N/a
change of use (removal of condition 2(a) of PRR 08/1430) from restricted use as a person engaged in agriculture to use by all classes of persons
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24477
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
- WI027-065 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a SE-facing slope. Circular, slightly dished area (max. diam. c. 40m). Shown as a circular enclosure on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 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 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.
- 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. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Graigue · An Ghráig
- Area
- 1,018,865 m² (101.89 ha, 251.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltegan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Electoral division
- Humewood, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Humewood electoral division: 351 people in 134 households; 82% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrig Lower, Carrig Upper, Fiddan, Kelsha, Kelshabeg, Knockavurrig, Newtown
- 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.