Curraghkeel
Townland in the civil parish of Lurgan, barony of Castlerahan, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 27.1 ha
- 67 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 118,692 m² (11.87 ha, 29.33 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghkeel, from 29,538 m² (2.95 ha, 7.3 acres) to 122,973 m² (12.3 ha, 30.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Curraghkeel 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Jun 2021Conditional
erect 1 no. two-storey private dwelling with sewerage treatment system, percolation area and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21334
24 May 2021Conditional
for the erection of 1 no. 2 storey residence, sewerage treatment system, percolation area and ancillary site works at the above mentioned address. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21309
21 Aug 2018Conditional
for the demolition of the existing uninhabited and derelict two storey dwelling house and the construction of a new detached four bedroom bungalow, waste water treatment plant, percolation area, and ancillary site development works. The site is accessed via a lane from the pubic road and there are no alterations to be carried out to the existing vehicular entrance
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18347
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Curraghkeel.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curraghkeel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curraghkeel.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 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 Curraghkeel.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Curraghkeel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Curraghkeel
- Area
- 270,628 m² (27.06 ha, 66.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lurgan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Electoral division
- Lurgan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lurgan electoral division: 624 people in 211 households; 80% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghacashel, Aghaloughan, Cleggan, Curraghmore, Gallonnambraher, Lurgan
- Placenames
- Curraghkeel 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.