Cur

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cur, from 1,041 m² to 362,997 m² (36.3 ha, 89.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Cur 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.

• 20 Jan 2025Conditional

  of changes to dwellinghouse and garage. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 252.00 sqm(house), 54.00 sqm(garage-minor)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560051

• 12 Nov 2024N/a

  of changes to dwellinghouse and garage. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 252 sqm (H), 54 sqm (G)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2461520

• 18 Oct 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, garage, sewage treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 252 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211927

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Maumturk Mountains SAC 002008
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Maumturk Mountains 002008

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cur.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Cur, about 1 in 5 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 high, 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 Cur.

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.

No address of the register names Cur with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cur · An Chorr

Area

4,312,915 m² (431.29 ha, 1,065.74 acres)

Civil parish

Ross, and its townlands

Barony

Ross

Electoral division

Cur, the unit of the census

Census 2022

154 people lived in 66 households in the Cur electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barrslievenaroy, Breenaun, Maumgawnagh, Raigh, Teernakill North, Teernakill South

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Cur 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.