Curraghatawy
Townland in the civil parish of Drumreilly, barony of Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Currach an tSamhaidh
- Area
- 102.2 ha
- 252 acres
- Land parcels
- 77
- registered freehold, median 3,214 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghatawy, from 13 m² to 101,301 m² (10.13 ha, 25.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Curraghatawy 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
17 Aug 2026N/a
Planning permission is sought for part single storey/part storey and a half dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance & driveway, waste water treatment system and percolation area together with upgrades works of surfacing to existing laneway and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2660198
29 Oct 2024N/a
Planning permission is sought for part single storey/part storey and a half dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and associated site works at Curraghatawy, Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim.
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2460219
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 Curraghatawy.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curraghatawy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curraghatawy.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Curraghatawy.
- 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 Curraghatawy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Curraghatawy · Currach an tSamhaidh
- Area
- 1,021,630 m² (102.16 ha, 252.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumreilly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carrigallen
- Electoral division
- Drumreilly South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumreilly South electoral division: 153 people in 66 households; 86% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghoo, Aghoo East, Corralahan, Costrea, Drumany (Beirne), Gubs, Lissagarvan, Whiterock
- Placenames
- Curraghatawy 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.