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Townland

Graigue

An Ghráig

This north Tipperary townland has its own census return and an early nineteenth-century church.

Recorded locationGraigue53.11170° N · 7.99743° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

gráighamlet; cattle-steading?

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.

Recorded forms

  • An Ghráig · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Graigue · English · main form

Place & story

Dorrha Church

The architectural inventory dates Dorrha Church to 1832. The single-cell Church of Ireland building has a three-stage western tower and a vestry on its north side. Its limestone walls, pointed windows and timber sliding sashes survive within a surrounding graveyard on an earlier ecclesiastical site. [2]

Twenty-seven inhabitants in 1911

Graigue had twenty-seven inhabitants in 1911, fourteen male and thirteen female, in eight occupied houses, with one additional house empty. Its population had been fifty-one in 1891 and thirty-six in 1901. The townland covered 242 acres and twenty-three perches, within Dorrha parish, Ormond Lower barony and Graigue electoral division, Riverstown dispensary district and the Tipperary portion of Birr Poor Law Union. [3]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tipperary
Civil parish
Dorrha
Within
Graigue
Coordinates
53.11170, -7.99743
Mapped area
0.98 km²
Logainm ID
45955 ↗

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Graigue. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Dorrha Church, Graigue, Dorrha parish, survey 22400503 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  3. Census of Ireland 1911: County Tipperary, Table VII, printed page 7 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by A. Thom & Company, Dublin, 1912
  4. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-02-10. How this page was prepared.