# Curries, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilcroan, barony of Ballymoe, Co. Galway; in Irish Na Curraigh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 753,228 m² (75.32 ha, 186.13 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 19,551 m² (1.96 ha, 4.83 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilcroan, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilcroan.md
- Barony: Ballymoe
- Electoral division: Ballymoe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 398 people lived in 151 households in the Ballymoe electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 26% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18917
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 61686
- Centre: latitude 53.682982, longitude -8.504079 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curries, from 413 m² to 129,595 m² (12.96 ha, 32.02 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2103924: 129,595 m² (12.96 ha, 32.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2103924.md
- Parcel 2103929: 127,574 m² (12.76 ha, 31.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2103929.md
- Parcel 2103930: 69,522 m² (6.95 ha, 17.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2103930.md
- Parcel 2103927: 67,758 m² (6.78 ha, 16.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2103927.md
- Parcel 2103928: 51,257 m² (5.13 ha, 12.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2103928.md
- Parcel 2103932: 35,455 m² (3.55 ha, 8.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2103932.md
- Parcel 2054297: 34,031 m² (3.4 ha, 8.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054297.md
- Parcel 2054294: 25,020 m² (2.5 ha, 6.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054294.md
- Parcel 2103933: 23,673 m² (2.37 ha, 5.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2103933.md
- Parcel 2103931: 19,551 m² (1.96 ha, 4.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2103931.md
- Parcel 2054291: 7,579 m² (0.76 ha, 1.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054291.md
- Parcel 2103925: 7,100 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2103925.md
- Parcel 2054292: 2,455 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054292.md
- Parcel 2054296: 2,220 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054296.md
- Parcel 4631228: 1,707 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4631228.md
- Parcel 2103926: 1,408 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2103926.md
- Parcel 2054295: 1,024 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054295.md
- Parcel 2054293: 453 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054293.md
- Parcel 5906634: 413 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5906634.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Curries 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.

- 12 Jun 2026, Galway County Council 2660965: N/a. Retention. of the existing loose shed for the housing of horses and feedstuff. Full planning permission sought to close up the existing farmyard entrance and one of the entrances to the dwelling house .The remaining dwelling house entrance shall be used to enter the dwelling house and the farmyard. Full planning permission also sought to construct an effluent storage tank, dungsted and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660965/0
- 22 Aug 2025, Galway County Council 2561168: N/a. Retention. of the existing loose shed for the housing of horses and feedstuff. Full planning permission also sought to construct an effluent storage tank, dungsted and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561168/0
- 31 Oct 2017, Galway County Council 171563: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct extension to existing dwelling consisting of extending existing bedroom and constructing bathroom and associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works 24.70sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/171563/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Curries.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA002-010: Bridge, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA002-010----. In low-lying marshy grassland spanning the Springfield River, immediately downstream of the modern bridge. This is a mortared limestone bridge (L 20m, Wth 5m, H 3.3m), aligned NW-SE, in good condition save for NW end. Six round-headed arches span the river which is now confined to the four arches to SE. Four corresponding cutwaters survive on SW or upstream side. The NE side is rendered and plank-centring is visible on the most southerly arch. An overgrown and disused roadway extends off to SE. This bridge may date to the late 17th C but appears to have been reconstructed in the late 18th/early 19th C (pers. comm. P. Duffy). 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
- GA002-018: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA002-018----. On roadside in a low-lying area flanked by two ridges to N and S. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a rectangular roofed building (c. 12m by c. 10m), aligned WNW-ESE. No visible surface trace survives. However, a slight rectangular depression (E-W; L 19m, Wth 10m) defined by earthen banks is locally believed to mark its site. 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
- GA002-019: House - 18th/19th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA002-019----. 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.

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Curries, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Curries.
- 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/curries.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/curries.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/curries.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Curries 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)

- Ballaghaugeag West: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballaghaugeag-west.md
- Ballyglass Middle: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballyglass-middle.md
- Ballyglass North: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballyglass-north.md
- Ballyglass South: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballyglass-south.md
- Ballyglass West: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballyglass-west-60341.md
- Bracklagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/bracklagh-60638.md
- Corlackan: https://everytownland.com/galway/corlackan-61478.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.

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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/curries
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/curries