Curhownagh

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curhownagh, from 682 m² to 81,242 m² (8.12 ha, 20.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 2 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 Curhownagh 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.

• 7 Jul 2023Conditional

  for a dormer type extension of 63.2 sqm to the side of an existing cottage along with a single storey rear extension to the cottage of 7 sqm. The proposed development will include the installation of a new effluent treatment system & polishing filter & all associated site works. This planning application is accompanied by a NIS

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360770

• 30 May 2019Conditional

  to (1) renovate existing cottage (2) construct a new rear elevation extension to the existing cottage (3) installation of new effluent treatment system and polishing filter (4) up-grade existing vehicle access road to cottage as well as all associated site works. This planning application is accompanied by a NIS, as required by Article 239 of the Planning and Development Regulations, 2001 (As Amended). Gross floor space of proposed works: 112.00 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 34 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19819

• 17 Dec 2018N/a

  to (1) renovate existing cottage (2) construct a new rear elevation extension to the existing cottage (3) installation of new effluent treatment system and polishing filter (4) up-grade existing vehicle access road to cottage as well as all associated site works. This planning application is accompanied by a NIS, as required by Article 239 of the Planning and Development Regulations, 2001 (as amended). Gross floor space of proposed works: 134 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 34 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181817

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: Slyne Head Peninsula SAC 002074
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slyne Head Peninsula 002074

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curhownagh.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Curhownagh.

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 Curhownagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Curhownagh · Corrthamhnach

Area

385,115 m² (38.51 ha, 95.16 acres)

Civil parish

Ballindoon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Errislannan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Errislannan electoral division: 234 people in 84 households; 83% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 51% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Keerhaun North

Placenames

Curhownagh 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.