Currylaur

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Currylaur, from 235 m² to 24,096 m² (2.41 ha, 5.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Currylaur 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.

• 3 May 2026N/a

  to construct a private dwelling house, domestic garage with on site sewerage treatment system and all other site services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660674

• 26 Jul 2023Conditional

  for the development that will consist of the continued use of the existing 90 sqm Steeltech building which was granted planning permission to be used as an after school care building as part of the services offered by The Orchard Creche, under file number 18/974

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2360853

• 14 Sept 2021Conditional

  for a dwelling house, garage, new septic tank/treatment plant with percolation area, removal of disused pump house and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 272 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211685

• 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

• 11 Jul 2018Conditional

  to 1) construct a pre-fabricated building to be used as a playroom and to be used in conjunction with existing crèche facility 2) all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 90 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18974

• 15 Mar 2017Conditional

  to construct a permanent crèche building in lieu of the temporary pre-fabricated building approved under Pl. Ref. No. 16/418 at "The Orchard Creche", Currylaur, Corofin, Tuam Co. Galway. The proposed replacement building will continue to be used in conjunction with existing crèche facility, will avail of the existing connection to existing treatment system with all associated site works & services, together with the removal of cocdition no. 4 attached to Planning Ref. No. 16/418. Gross floor area 142.8sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17347

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments

• GA057-105 Building
  Description

  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.

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, 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.

No address of the register names Currylaur with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Currylaur · An Chora Láir

Area

133,561 m² (13.36 ha, 33 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, Curry Eighter, Curry Oughter, Turloughour

Placenames

Currylaur 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.