Curraghacruit

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghacruit, from 137 m² to 283,331 m² (28.33 ha, 70.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Curraghacruit 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.

• 14 Jul 2023Conditional

  permission to build a 1 and 1/2 story extension to existing dwelling, a porch to the front of existing dwelling, change of roof on existing utility room from a low pitch to A roof and construction of a single story domestic garage including carport and all auxiliary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2360135

• 6 Jul 2023N/a

  permission to build a 1 and a 1/2 storey extension to existing dwelling , a porch to front of existing dwelling, change of roof on existing utility room from low pitch to A roof and construction of a single storey domestic storage garage including carport and all other auxiliary site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 23115

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: Ballymoon Esker 000797

Recorded monuments

• CW016-026 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 In wall recess, drystone-lined well overgrown with scrub and covered.

• CW016-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Circular area (diam. 34m) surrounded by earthen bank, external fosse and traces of possible second external bank. No visible trace of entrance.

• CW016-047 Enclosure
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Aerial photographs (GSI S 268) show cropmark of possible circular enclosure (est max. diam. c. 30m). No visible surface traces.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curraghacruit.

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 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 Curraghacruit.

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 Curraghacruit with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Curraghacruit · Currach Cruite

Area

1,000,087 m² (100.01 ha, 247.13 acres)

Civil parish

Dunleckny, and its townlands

Barony

Idrone East

Electoral division

Muinebeag Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Muinebeag Rural electoral division: 719 people in 238 households; 92% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymoon, Bohermore, Dunleckny, Kilcarrig

Placenames

Curraghacruit 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.