Curheen

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curheen, from 278 m² to 266,657 m² (26.67 ha, 65.89 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Curheen 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.

• 14 Nov 2024Conditional

  to complete renovations and extension to existing dwelling, all within revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of works to be retained: 61.2 sqm(garage), 39.12 sqm(extension)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461536

• 20 Apr 2023Conditional

  for the development consisting of a new front porch to existing front elevation, two storey rear extension, associated roof alterations, internal alterations, new garage, wastewater treatment system & percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360399

• 21 Oct 2022Conditional

  The development shall consist of alterations to the front elevation, demolition of the existing single storey elements to the rear, construction of a new first floor, internal alterations, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works.Gross floor space of proposed works 88.75sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261067

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: Lough Rea SAC 000304
• Special Protection Area: Lough Rea SPA 004134
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Rea 000304

Recorded monuments

• GA105-070 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  Hachuring shown on the 1929 revision of the OS 6-inch map to the E and S of Coorheen House indicates a series of terraces which relate to 19th-century landscaping. Incorrectly classified as Enclosure in the RMP (1997). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 2019

• GA105-071 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating pastureland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 50m) defined by a low bank. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 December 2017

• GA105-072 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the N-facing slope of a low hill overlooking Lough Rea. Poorly preserved oval rath (29.5m N-S; 25.5m E-W) defined by a low bank. A field wall borders the monument from S to SW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 December 2017

• GA105-073 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating rough pastureland. Poorly preserved oval rath (c. 50m N-S; c. 45m E-W) defined by a bank and fosse with traces of a possible outer bank at NNW. There is a causewayed entrance gap at NNE. The fosse is visible from S through W to NNW. A field wall borders the monument from S to SW. See also GA105-073001-. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 December 2017

• GA105-073001 Field boundary
  Description

  When inspected in 1974 a slight earth and stone bank was noticed extending to the W of the causewayed entrance gap of the rath (GA105-073----). It extended roughly 11m to the WNW and was possibly associated with an earlier field system (SMR file). This feature was not noted when the rath was visited in 1982. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 December 2017

• GA105-074 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight rise in undulating pastureland. Circular rath (diam. c. 35m), in fair condition, defined by a grass-covered bank and external fosse; a field wall overlies the site of the latter from NNW to NNE. A gap (Wth 1.7m) at ENE may be original. When inspected in 1974 a slight bank of earth and stone (L 9m) was noted extending from the fosse at S and curving slightly to the W (SMR file). It was possibly the remains of an annexe. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 December 2017

• GA105-075 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Coorheen House, school, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan single-storey school and schoolmaster's house with attic, built c.1860, having four-bay elevation to road, two-bay north elevation, open-sided gabled porch set in slightly recessed return, having lean-to addition to rear re-entrant corner. Now in use as gate lodge. Pitched diminishing slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, ashlar limestone chimneystack, decoratively carved timber bargeboards and eaves, and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Slate roofs to porch and addition. Rubble limestone walls with dressed quoins. Square-headed window openings with tooled sills and replacement timber windows. Chamfered square-plan posts with tooled plinths to porch. Square-headed replacement timber door. Wrought-iron boundary fence road and entrance elevations.

• Glenville, country house, 1835–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1845, having two-bay side elevations and three-bay rear elevation with symmetrical single-bay single-storey lean-to projections to end bays of rear. Hipped slate roof with central paired limestone ashlar chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls, pebbledashed to rear. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with simple sash horns and partially exposed sash boxes. Round-headed stairs window opening to rear with three-over-six pane timber sliding sash window. Square-headed six-over-six pane windows to rear elevation of each rear projection. Square-headed door opening with carved panelled timber door flanked by Tuscan columns, with entablature, moulded lintel, and spoked fanlight, all set within round-headed opening having moulded limestone surround and fronted by cut-stone steps. Set in own grounds, with entrance gates to road.

• Coorheen House, country house, 1860–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey country house with basement, built c.1875, having full-height projecting end bays to each side of single-storey colonnaded veranda, four-bay four-storey side (north) elevation, latter with two-bay central projection. Now in use as bishop's palace. Hipped slate roofs with clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimneystacks with some decorative ceramic chimneypots and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble limestone walls with tooled sill course to first floor and tooled plinth course, and dressed eaves course. Smooth rendered walls inside veranda. Square-headed window openings with tooled surrounds, moulded and with moulded cornices to ground floor, with replacement uPVC windows throughout. Side elevations have yellow brick block-and-start surrounds. Veranda has cut limestone square-plan columns and flanking pilasters with moulded plinths and capitals supporting entablature, approached by flight of cut limestone steps with low parapets. Square-headed door opening with moulded limestone surround having timber panelled door with overlight flanked by square-headed sidelights. Yard of outbuildings to north of house. Seven-bay two-storey outbuilding to east side of yard, with hipped slate roof, coursed squared rubble limestone walls, square-headed window openings with tooled surrounds having timber louver windows, square-headed door openings with timber battened doors, and segmental carriage arches with tooled voussoirs, one archway now having doorway and window. Seven-bay single-storey outbuilding at north side of hard, with hipped slate roof having clay ridge tiles and exposed ends too timber rafters, square-headed window openings, some narrow, and square-headed door openings, with timber battened doors. Entrance to west side of yard having ashlar limestone piers with plinths and caps to rubble limestone walls. Decorative wrought-iron gate to north-west of house, with cast-iron pier.

• Coorheen House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gates to Coorheen House, erected c.1860, comprising decorative double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gate with cut limestone piers having caps and plinths, with flanking limestone ashlar plinth walls with similar cast-iron railings terminating in similar piers. Hinged cast-iron gate stop on dressed limestone mount. Flanked by rubble limestone boundary walls.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_992 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Curheen · Comhroinn

Area

1,058,200 m² (105.82 ha, 261.49 acres)

Civil parish

Killeenadeema, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Aille, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aille electoral division: 429 people in 146 households; 90% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cahercrea East, Cuscarrick, Glenaclara East, Glenaclara West, Grangepark

Placenames

Curheen 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.