Curraghan

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghan, from 135 m² to 208,086 m² (20.81 ha, 51.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Curraghan 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 Jun 2025Conditional

  1. To construct a single story type domestic dwelling. 2. To construct a domestic garage. 3. To construct a new site entrance. 4. To construct a wastewater treatment system to EPA code of practice and all ancillary works. The works are located at

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560135

• 18 Oct 2022N/a

  1. construct a single storey type domestic dwelling. 2. To construct a new site entrance. 3. To demolish existing agriculture outbuilding. 4. To construct a waste water treatment system to current EPA Code Of Practice and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 22219

• 8 May 2018Conditional

  construct a single storey type dwelling with living accommodation in the roof space, domestic garage, upgrade an existing site access, construct a waste water treatment system to current EPA code of Practice and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 1878

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 Curraghan.

Recorded monuments

• LE010-023 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Located on a gentle S-facing slope. Grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 26m N-S; 24.4m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread with facing-stones, best preserved at E and W (Wth 1.85m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.8m), which is built on an artificial scarp (H 1.9m) at S (downslope). There is no identifiable original entrance. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE011-024 Sheepfold
  Description

  Indicated only on the 1945 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is situated on a N-S spur of a SW-facing slope. A modern drystone-built enclosure (int. dims 18m N-S; 15m E-W) defined by a poorly built wall (Wth up to 1m, H up to 1m). There is a collapsed entrance (Wth 0.6m) at NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 April, 2016

• LE011-126 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a NE-SW mountain ridge with panoramic views in every direction. it is indicated as an OS Trigonometric Point on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is the remains of a flat-topped earth and stone grass-covered mound or cairn (diam. of base 5.5m; diam. of top 3m; H 0.7m ) with a slight depression on the summit of the cairn, which may have been caused by the placement of an OD stone or tile marking the height of 1137 ft. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 10 September, 2009

• LE011-130 Well
  Description

  Situated at the bottom of the S-facing slope of the NE-SW ridge of Leaan Mountain. A horseshoe-shaped earthen bank with evidence of stone facing is enclosing a wet marshy interior (int. dims 1.9m by 1.5m) in a manner similar to that of a well. It is located beside c. 10m N of a farm road, which may suggest that this was the site of a well of 19th century date. Date of upload; 5 July, 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Curraghan, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Curraghan.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Curraghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Curraghan · An Currachán

Area

1,110,606 m² (111.06 ha, 274.44 acres)

Civil parish

Drumlease, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Sramore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

406 people lived in 144 households in the Sramore electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Doonkelly, Fawnarry, Leckaun, Leean, Magurk

Placenames

Curraghan 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.