Currin
Currin is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrenan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is An Curraoin.
- Area
- 145.7 ha
- 360 acres
- Land parcels
- 82
- registered freehold, median 3,505 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 22
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Currin, from 6 m² to 129,577 m² (12.96 ha, 32.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Currin 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
30 Sept 2026N/a
CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE FROM LONG-TERM PERMANENT RESIDENTIAL USE TO SHORT-TERM LETTING
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661803
22 Oct 2025Conditional
(1) RELOCATION OF PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED MACHINERY SHED (PLANNING REF. NO. 24/60842 REFERS), (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PLAYING FIELD (145M X 90M), (3) PROVISION OF ALL FENCING, FLOODLIGHTING, BALLSTOPS, DUGOUTS AND SCOREBOARD AND (4) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561835
2 Oct 2025Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING (DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCK EFFECTED) DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE UTILISING EXISTING ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561716
2 Oct 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TOILET BLOCK FACILITY WITH PLANT ROOM (TO FACILITATE EXISTING DEVELOPMENT AT CLG AN TEARMAINN) WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING ONSITE SEWERAGE SYSTEM AND INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561717
17 Sept 2025Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN TO THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 23/50676 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561606
4 Jun 2025Conditional
UPPER FLOOR DEVELOPMENT, CONSISTING OF 2 NO. BEDROOMS AND BATHROOM WITHIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560923
28 Mar 2025Conditional
DOMESTIC GARAGE ANCILLARY TO DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560461
28 Mar 2025Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING TWO CLASSROOM BLOCK TO THE WEST SIDE OF THE SITE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE WEST SIDE OF THE EXISTING SCHOOL BUILDING TO CREATE A TWO CLASSROOM SEN UNIT AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND TWO REPLACEMENT MAINSTREAM CLASSROOMS AT FIRST FLOOR, (3) PROVISION OF AN ENCLOSED SOFT PLAY SPACE, CONTAINING A SENSORY GARDEN, TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING SCHOOL, (4) ALTERATIONS AND DELINEATION OF ROADSIDE PARKING AND BUS DROP OFF AREA ALONG LOCAL ROAD L5542 INCLUDING THE UPGRADE OF AN EXISTING CROSSING POINT TO A RAISED TABLE, (5) PROVISION OF A TEMPORARY PREFAB CONTAINING 2 NO. ENSUITE CLASSROOMS TO SERVE THE SCHOOL FOR THE DURATION OF THE BUILD WITH CONNECTION INTO EXISTING SERVICES ON SITE AND (6) CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES ON SITE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS CONNECTED WITH THE WORKS MENTIONED ABOVE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560459
6 Jun 2024Conditional
EXISTING SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR (1) RECONFIGURATION OF CARPARK LAYOUT PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER REF. 19/51191, (2) EXTENSION OF CARPARK PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER REF. 19/51191, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW OVERSPILL CARPARK, (4) MODIFICATION OF EXISTING ENTRANCE TO PROVIDE SAFER ACCESS/EXIT FOR VEHICLES & PEDESTRIANS, (5) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 4M HIGH RC BALL WALL, (6) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW MACHINERY STORAGE SHED, (7) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460842
17 May 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350676
2 May 2023N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW CHILDCARE FACILITY CONSISTING OF 3 NO. CLASSROOMS, STAFF FACILITIES, STORAGE AND TOILETS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350593
28 Sept 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251628
21 Dec 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152574
15 Dec 2021Conditional
(1) AGRICULTURAL SHEEP SHED, (2) AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY WORKSHOP, (3) AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2152512
13 Apr 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF LIGHT STANDARDS, WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, PROVIDE LIGHTING TO THE EXISTING WALKWAY AROUND THE PLAYING FIELD
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150651
22 Dec 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2052013
3 Jun 2020Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED, INSTALLATION OF WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, CONNECTION TO EXISTING ACCESS ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050698
2 Aug 2019Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING CLUBHOUSE / DRESSING ROOMS; (2) ERECTION OF A NEW CLUB HOUSE CONSISTING OF DRESSING ROOMS, MULTIFUNCTION ROOM, GYM AND AUXILIARY ROOMS; (3) INSTALLATION OF NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (4) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951191
24 May 2019Conditional
CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING CHANGING ROOMS TO A CHILD CARE FACILTIES, INCLUDING MINOR STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950789
10 Apr 2019Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION COMPRISING OF MAINSTREAM CLASSROOM AND SET ROOM, AND (2) PROVISION OF A NEW ENTRANCE FOYER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ALTERATIONS AND SITE WORKS TO ACCOMMODATE SAME
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950524
30 Apr 2018Conditional
PÁIRC IMEARTHA A THÓGÁIL, LE COSÁN SIÚLÓIDE/RITH THART TIMPEALL UIRTHI, CHOMH MAITH LE FÁLÚ IOMLÁN, STAID LIATHRÓIDÍ AGUS TUILSOILSIÚ, AGUS ACHAN UILE OIBRITHE SHUÍMH GAOLMHARA
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850666
22 Nov 2017Conditional
SÍNEADH A CHUIR LEIS AN BHFOIRGNEAMH ATÁ ANN CHEANA FÉIN CHUN ROTHAIR A CHOTHABHAIL CHOMH MAITH LE OBAIR EILE BAINTEACH LEIS AN SUÍOMH
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751767
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Leannan River SAC 002176
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Currin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Currin.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Currin, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Currin.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Currin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Currin · An Curraoin
- Area
- 1,456,683 m² (145.67 ha, 359.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacrenan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Termon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 568 people lived in 189 households in the Termon electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barnes Lower, Barnes Upper, Drumbrick, Drumdeevin, Drumlurgagh, Fawans, Gortnalaragh, Knocknabollan
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Currin 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.