# Curhownagh, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballindoon, barony of Ballynahinch, Co. Galway; in Irish Corrthamhnach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 385,115 m² (38.51 ha, 95.16 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 13,431 m² (1.34 ha, 3.32 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballindoon, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ballindoon.md - Barony: Ballynahinch - Electoral division: Errislannan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18213 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 61648 - Centre: latitude 53.468525, longitude -10.084172 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curhownagh, from 682 m² to 81,242 m² (8.12 ha, 20.08 acres); 2 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2054340: 81,242 m² (8.12 ha, 20.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054340.md - Parcel 2054345: 50,661 m² (5.07 ha, 12.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054345.md - Parcel 2103983: 41,639 m² (4.16 ha, 10.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2103983.md - Parcel 5188396: 30,607 m² (3.06 ha, 7.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5188396.md - Parcel 2103977: 29,531 m² (2.95 ha, 7.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2103977.md - Parcel 4903398: 28,514 m² (2.85 ha, 7.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4903398.md - Parcel 2103975: 23,300 m² (2.33 ha, 5.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2103975.md - Parcel 2054342: 23,172 m² (2.32 ha, 5.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054342.md - Parcel 2103976: 19,925 m² (1.99 ha, 4.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2103976.md - Parcel 2054343: 16,148 m² (1.61 ha, 3.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054343.md - Parcel 5539683: 13,431 m² (1.34 ha, 3.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5539683.md - Parcel 6063517: 9,624 m² (0.96 ha, 2.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6063517.md - Parcel 2103979: 3,576 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2103979.md - Parcel 2103978: 3,235 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2103978.md - Parcel 2054341: 2,246 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054341.md - Parcel 4689975: 2,000 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4689975.md - Parcel 2103981: 1,628 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2103981.md - Parcel 2103982: 1,417 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2103982.md - Parcel 2054344: 1,183 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054344.md - Parcel 2103980: 956 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2103980.md - Parcel 4566098: 682 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4566098.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 7 Jul 2023, Galway County Council 2360770: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360770/0 - 30 May 2019, Galway County Council 19819: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/19819/0 - 17 Dec 2018, Galway County Council 181817: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/181817/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Slyne Head Peninsula SAC, site code 002074, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002074 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slyne Head Peninsula, site code 002074 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curhownagh. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curhownagh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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: 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, 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/galway/curhownagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/curhownagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/curhownagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Curhownagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Keerhaun North: https://everytownland.com/galway/keerhaun-north.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/galway/curhownagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/curhownagh