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Graigue

An Ghráig

This Eliogarty townland preserves a surveyed example of vernacular building.

Recorded locationGraigue52.62636° N · 7.81243° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Approximate recorded 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

A house with a sheltered entrance

The architectural inventory records a single-storey, three-bay house in Graigue, dated to about 1860. A windbreak shelters the entrance, and the plan follows the lobby-entry form. Its hipped thatched roof, limewashed walls and timber sash windows are accompanied by a slate-roofed outbuilding forming an L-shaped yard. [2]

Twenty-six occupied houses

Graigue’s 1911 return counted 151 inhabitants, eighty male and seventy-one female. Twenty-six of its twenty-seven houses were occupied and one empty. The recorded population had been 161 in 1891 and 153 in 1901. Its area was 974 acres and thirteen perches. It lay in Moycarky parish and electoral division, Eliogarty barony and Littleton dispensary district, within Thurles Poor Law Union. [3]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tipperary
Barony
Eliogarty
Civil parish
Moycarky
Coordinates
52.62636, -7.81243 (approximate)
Mapped area
3.94 km²
Logainm ID
47212 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1911 census

No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Graigue. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Vernacular house, Graigue, Moycarky parish, survey 22404710, recorded 31 August 2004 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  3. Census of Ireland 1911: County Tipperary, Table VII, printed page 70 · 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.