Curraghaderry
Townland in the civil parish of Liskeevy, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway; in Irish Currach an Doire
- Area
- 110.2 ha
- 272 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 4,862 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghaderry, from 245 m² to 208,559 m² (20.86 ha, 51.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Curraghaderry 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
15 Sept 2025Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561327
15 Mar 2021Conditional
to a);demolish sub-standard vacant dwelling house, and b) construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area, and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 261 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 95.5 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21370
24 Oct 2019Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 236.7 sqm, Garage - 41.25 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191652
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Curraghaderry.
Recorded monuments
- GA004-024 Enclosure
Description
In undulating grassland overlooking bogland to SE. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1930) as a subrectangular enclosure (E-W c. 40m, N-S c. 35m) cut by a road at N. An earthen bank is visible from W to NW; elsewhere the enclosing element has been levelled and only a slight rise indicates its outline. Traces of a possible outer bank are visible at SE. There is a CBG (GA004-024001-) within the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
- GA004-024001 Children's burial ground
Description
Within W section of an enclosure (GA004-024----). A raised D-shaped area (N-S 24m, E-W 18m) enclosed along W side by the bank of the surrounding enclosure. Numerous small set stones indicate graves oriented E-W. Some rectangular graves are also visible. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curraghaderry.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Curraghaderry.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Curraghaderry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Curraghaderry · Currach an Doire
- Area
- 1,102,463 m² (110.25 ha, 272.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Liskeevy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunmore
- Electoral division
- Milltown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Milltown electoral division: 704 people in 266 households; 86% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Belmont, Carrownageeha, Carrownurlaur, Drum, Gortnagunned, Killerneen, Pollaturick
- Placenames
- Curraghaderry 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.