# Curragh, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Feakle, barony of Tulla Upper, Co. Clare; in Irish Currach na gCros.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 995,989 m² (99.6 ha, 246.11 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,708 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Feakle, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/feakle.md
- Barony: Tulla Upper
- Electoral division: Ayle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ayle electoral division: 373 people in 142 households; 67% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/7567
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30932
- Centre: latitude 52.921636, longitude -8.678892 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curragh, from 450 m² to 258,966 m² (25.9 ha, 63.99 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1429479: 258,966 m² (25.9 ha, 63.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1429479.md
- Parcel 1512594: 247,824 m² (24.78 ha, 61.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1512594.md
- Parcel 5794620: 148,561 m² (14.86 ha, 36.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5794620.md
- Parcel 1492049: 71,796 m² (7.18 ha, 17.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1492049.md
- Parcel 1495146: 24,118 m² (2.41 ha, 5.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1495146.md
- Parcel 1494960: 14,056 m² (1.41 ha, 3.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1494960.md
- Parcel 5525113: 7,152 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5525113.md
- Parcel 1518092: 6,972 m² (0.7 ha, 1.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1518092.md
- Parcel 1450277: 6,444 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1450277.md
- Parcel 1442245: 4,757 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1442245.md
- Parcel 1513942: 4,550 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1513942.md
- Parcel 1443425: 4,529 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1443425.md
- Parcel 1492503: 3,109 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1492503.md
- Parcel 3692831: 2,969 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3692831.md
- Parcel 2446677: 2,514 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2446677.md
- Parcel 1469648: 450 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1469648.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Curragh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 29 Apr 2019, Clare County Council 19344: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a single dwelling house, attached carport and garage, advanced wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/19344/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA, site code 004168, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004168

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CL027-007: Water mill - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL027-007----. On an elevated area, immediately above the Magherabaun River, in the angle of a meander, on the E-side of the watercourse. The ground slopes up steeply to ENE from this location and a waterfall is adjacent to W, which discharges into Poulawillin. This is depicted as a building named ‘Poulawillin Mill (in ruins)’ on the 1842 edition of the OS 6-inch map, indicating that it had gone out of use and was probably abandoned by this time. It is not visible at ground level. A meander of the river to W of the current course, appears to have been the main river channel, as shown on the 1842 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is shown as having shifted to the current channel from the OS 25-inch map (1888-1913) onwards. The old channel fed back into the current channel immediately below the waterfall, via a deeply incised outlet. The waterfall is formed by limestone rock formations which are naturally shaped by the fluvial action of the river. There is a large flat-faced limestone rock abutment on the W side of the current channel and a craggy abutment to the E side, having a distinct overhang. The river bank downstream of the waterfall is formed by a high limestone rock-face to W and by a more uniform, yet quite steep earthen slope, to E. There are various in-river limestone rock formations immediately downstream of the waterfall and these all appear to be naturally formed. A large tree has fallen across the river channel below these rock formations. On inspection in 2018, it was not possible to cross the river as water levels were too high due to fast-flowing flood waters. Nevertheless, there are no immediately apparent signs of any extant structures that may be associated with the mill. Due to the lack of surface expression, it is likely that this mill structure has been robbed of stone and any associated timber elements are likely to have perished. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 5 December 2018
- CL027-008: Children's burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL027-008----. On a steady SE-facing slope, in pasture, overlooking the valley of a stream in the foreground and surrounded by a gently undulating landscape. Depicted and named ‘Burial Gd. for Children’ on 1842 edition of the OS 6-inch map and ‘Children’s Burial Ground’ on the OS 25-inch map and 1920 edition of OS 6-inch map. A roughly subrectangular area (17.3m NW-SE; 23m NE-SW) with scattered steadfast stones and low upright markers interspersed between mature whitethorn trees. The edges are irregular and poorly defined. The upright markers appear to be E-facing and are randomly occurring across the burial ground. In some instances they appear close together or even side-by-side. A distinct concentration of low, upright markers are arranged in two parallel linear sequences at the western end of the burial ground. This monument is overgrown with mature thorn trees and dense vegetation in places. Local information confirms this as the resting place for unbaptized babies. It has been preserved in situ although the field was reclaimed in relatively recent times. The following images have been uploaded: CL027-008----_01.jpg From NE. General view of monument. CL027-008----_02.jpg From N. General view across interior. CL027-008----_03.jpg From W. Close up of low upright marker on E-side of Children’s Burial Ground. CL027-008----_04.jpg From W. Close up of linear arrangement of stones on W-side of Children’s Burial Ground. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 5 December 2018

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 Curragh.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/curragh.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/curragh.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/curragh.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Curragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Bauragegaun: https://everytownland.com/clare/bauragegaun.md
- Carheen: https://everytownland.com/clare/carheen.md
- Derrybehagh: https://everytownland.com/clare/derrybehagh.md
- Derryvinna: https://everytownland.com/clare/derryvinna.md
- Gorteenreagh: https://everytownland.com/clare/gorteenreagh.md
- Magherabaun: https://everytownland.com/clare/magherabaun-31830.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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