Currane

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Currane, from 462 m² to 109,303 m² (10.93 ha, 27.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Currane 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.

• 28 Nov 2024Conditional

  to construct (I) Cubicle shed with slatted tanks and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460380

• 21 Nov 2024N/a

  to construct (1) cubicle shed with slatted tanks and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460371

• 24 Jul 2023Conditional

  Permission to construct (I) Milking parlour building incorporating dairy, plant, storage, Milk tank, Meal Bin, Rain Water storage tanks, holding yard with crush/ drafting yard, underground effluent tank with flow channel and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2360140

• 23 Jun 2023Conditional

  The construction of a new two story dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic well, onsite waste water treatment plant and percolation area along with all associated site and landscaping works including a new entrance

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2360120

• 20 Jun 2023N/a

  the construction of a new two story dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic well, onsite waste water treatment plant and percolation area along with all associated site and landscaping works including a new entrance

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2360112

• 12 Sept 2022Conditional

  change of house type from plans approved under PL REF 21164 and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 22297

• 4 May 2021Conditional

  Permission for the erection of a dwelling house, garage, treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 21164

• 21 Jul 2020Conditional

  domestic garage/store and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 20245

• 24 May 2017Conditional

  to construct an extension to existing dwelling, a porch to existing main entrance and retention of existing garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 17173

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Currane.

Recorded monuments

• CW019-060 Cairn - unclassified
  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 Marked on 1908 'OS 6-inch' map as low mound (max. diam. c. 20m). Bulge with stones visible below foundation of partly levelled old field boundary. Possibly cairn, most of which has been removed.

• CW019-067 Enclosure
  Description

  Depicted as a haggard on the 1839 OS 6-inch map. Rectangular enclosure aligned N-S represented by a stone lined fosse best preserved along the E side (L 24m) with N and S sides (L 16m) also preserved. No trace of W side. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Currane Tower, folly, 1805–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding two-storey folly tower, c. 1810, on a square plan.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Currane.

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

Name

Currane · An Corrán

Area

1,479,926 m² (147.99 ha, 365.7 acres)

Civil parish

Clonygoose, and its townlands

Barony

St. Mullin's Lower

Electoral division

Ballyellin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyellin electoral division: 451 people in 158 households; 94% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymartin, Ballynasilloge, Cashel, Dunroe, Kilcloney

Placenames

Currane 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.