# Curragh, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Leck, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Currach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 494,506 m² (49.45 ha, 122.2 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,765 m² (1.18 ha, 2.91 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Leck, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/leck.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Corravaddy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,739 people lived in 603 households in the Corravaddy electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 62% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15496 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50866 - Centre: latitude 54.920468, longitude -7.72313 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curragh, from 2,253 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 90,730 m² (9.07 ha, 22.42 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1361861: 90,730 m² (9.07 ha, 22.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361861.md - Parcel 5369518: 81,961 m² (8.2 ha, 20.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5369518.md - Parcel 1346947: 76,377 m² (7.64 ha, 18.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346947.md - Parcel 1395084: 52,324 m² (5.23 ha, 12.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395084.md - Parcel 1393836: 49,501 m² (4.95 ha, 12.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393836.md - Parcel 5367774: 40,875 m² (4.09 ha, 10.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5367774.md - Parcel 1309869: 28,538 m² (2.85 ha, 7.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309869.md - Parcel 1321549: 20,237 m² (2.02 ha, 5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321549.md - Parcel 1345991: 13,217 m² (1.32 ha, 3.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1345991.md - Parcel 1395387: 10,312 m² (1.03 ha, 2.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395387.md - Parcel 5369517: 6,734 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5369517.md - Parcel 3659731: 6,052 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659731.md - Parcel 4869163: 3,539 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4869163.md - Parcel 5363026: 3,217 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5363026.md - Parcel 3659733: 2,941 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659733.md - Parcel 5384190: 2,938 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5384190.md - Parcel 5384224: 2,801 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5384224.md - Parcel 3659732: 2,253 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659732.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) 5 applications, newest first. - 4 May 2018, Donegal County Council 1850705: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF DWELLING AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850705/0 - 5 Mar 2018, Donegal County Council 1850325: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM & ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850325/0 - 28 Jul 2017, Donegal County Council 1751184: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING HOUSE, WITH ATTIC ROOMS INCORPORATED, SEPTIC TANK WASTE WATER SYSTEM, & ASSOCIATED PERCOLATION AREA, & ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751184/0 - 20 Jul 2017, Donegal County Council 1751148: N/a. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING HOUSE, WITH ATTIC ROOMS INCORPORATED, AND SEPTIC TANK WASTE WATER SYSTEM, & ASSOCIATED PERCOLATION AREA, & ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751148/0 - 4 Jul 2017, Donegal County Council 1751044: N/a. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING HOUSE, WITH ATTIC ROOMS INCORPORATED, AND SEPTIC TANK WASTE WATER SYSTEM & ASSOCIATED PERCOLATION AREA & ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751044/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Curragh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curragh. ## 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: at the centre of the townland of Curragh, about 1 in 10 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - 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/donegal/curragh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/curragh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/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. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ardaganny: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardaganny.md - Corranagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/corranagh.md - Fycorranagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/fycorranagh.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/curragh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/curragh