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Graigue

An Ghráig

The census places this Graigue in Ballyclerahan electoral division, south Tipperary.

Recorded locationGraigue52.39939° N · 7.80441° 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

Seventy-one inhabitants in 1911

Graigue’s 1911 return lists seventy-one inhabitants, thirty-eight male and thirty-three female, in fifteen occupied houses. Fifteen houses had also been recorded in 1891 and 1901, when the population was ninety-seven and seventy-nine respectively. Its area was 403 acres, two roods and nineteen perches. It belonged to Newchapel parish, Iffa and Offa East barony and Ballyclerahan electoral division, within Clonmel No. 2, or Marlfield, dispensary district and the Tipperary portion of Clonmel Poor Law Union. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tipperary
Civil parish
Newchapel
Coordinates
52.39939, -7.80441
Mapped area
1.63 km²
Logainm ID
48244 ↗

People & family history

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

1926 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. Census of Ireland 1911: County Tipperary, Table VII, printed page 41 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by A. Thom & Company, Dublin, 1912
  3. 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.