Curry Eighter
Townland in the civil parish of Cummer, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish An Chora Íochtair
- Area
- 47.4 ha
- 117 acres
- Land parcels
- 122
- registered freehold, median 1,952 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
122 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curry Eighter, from 13 m² to 43,867 m² (4.39 ha, 10.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Curry Eighter 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
24 Apr 2025Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage with a wastewater treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 288 sqm(H), 40.00 sqm(G)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560488
19 Apr 2024Conditional
for the construction of an extension onto an existing storage warehouse. The floor area of the proposed extension is 417.9 m2. Permission for a revised parking layout, a revised entrance/exit location for the site and for all associated services and siteworks. The existing warehouses were constructed under planning register reference numbers 04/2711 and 08/1091. Gross floor space of proposed works: 417.90 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 2460428
1 Feb 2023Conditional
to construct an extension & associated modifications to existing dwellinghouse, the construction of a new garage area & all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 193.60sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360069
17 Nov 2021Conditional
for the construction of a two storey commercial office building for use by Western Hygiene Supplies Ltd. The development entails the demolition of the existing single storey office building used in association with the business and for the construction of a two storey office building in lieu of same and for the provision of parking spaces and all ancillary site works and services. The development was previously permitted under pl. ref. 14/572. Permission is also sought for the provision of Photovoltaic Solar Panels on the roofs of existing commercial warehouses constructed under pl. ref. nos. 04/2711 & 08/1091. Gross floor space of proposed works: 280.2 sqm.
Permission · Galway County Council, 212138
8 Nov 2021Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 226 sqm & 60 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212072
24 Jun 2021Conditional
for the replacement and relocation of an existing effluent treatment system and for the construction of a new domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 60sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211114
4 Mar 2021Conditional
to change the design granted under planning ref. number 18/124 for the refurbishment and extension to a dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 77.3 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21298
22 Jan 2021Conditional
to construct a domestic garage / storage shed and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 65 msq
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2147
3 Nov 2020Conditional
of existing dwelling house, rear extension and a storage shed on a site with revised boundaries to include all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 141.70 sqm (House), 12.70 sqm (Shed)
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201629
14 Oct 2020Refused
to construct a domestic garage/storage shed and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 99 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 201508
8 Feb 2018Conditional
to carry out works to a dwelling house to include the addition of a first floor, alterations to the front elevations, raising of the roof level, rear living space extensions, and the provision of a new foul water treatment plant to replace existing system. Gross floor space of proposed works 109 sqm , 45.3 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18124
20 Nov 2017Refused
to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 312sqm, Garage 60sqm.
Permission · Galway County Council, 171663
4 Aug 2017Conditional
to construct serviced dwelling house and domestic garage/store. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling House 240sqm, Garage 62sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171185
4 Apr 2017Conditional
of serviced dwelling house and domestic garage / store on revised site boundaries (previously granted under planning ref. 98/1337) and retention of attic conversion. (Gross floor space of works to be retained: House 154 sqm, Attic Conversion 79 sqm., Domestic Garage / Shed 23 sqm.)
Retention · Galway County Council, 17440
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 Curry Eighter.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curry Eighter.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curry Eighter.
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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_668 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Curry Eighter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Curry Eighter · An Chora Íochtair
- Area
- 473,619 m² (47.36 ha, 117.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cummer, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clare
- Electoral division
- Cummer, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cummer electoral division: 1,160 people in 353 households; 88% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corrofin, Cummer, Currylaur, Turloughour
- Placenames
- Curry Eighter 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.