Curragh

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curragh, from 143 m² to 238,958 m² (23.9 ha, 59.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Curragh 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.

• 27 Feb 2026Conditional

  a new garage/shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2651

• 28 Jan 2026Conditional

  construction of a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, Front boundary entrance walls, a new mechanical treatment unit and sand polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660079

• 24 Oct 2025Conditional

  the existing wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 25352

• 24 Oct 2025Conditional

  a new wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 25351

• 2 Jan 2025Conditional

  the construction of a slatted shed, roofed feed passages, cattle handling unit, cattle crush and concrte aprons

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 251

• 14 Nov 2023Conditional

  the (a) demolition of single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling house, (b) demolition of existing out building, (c) construction of a new single storey extension to eastern elevation, a new single storey extension to southern elevation, a new single storey porch to northern elevation, alterations to fenestration on northern elevation and install a new door and window to western elevation, all to existing dwelling house, (d) decommissioning of existing wastewater treatment system and install a new wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23548

• 5 Sept 2023Conditional

  an onsite shed for the purpose of processing and packaging meat to be sold on-line, no farm shop, deliveries only. It will be a small shed floor size 45.74m2 eave height 2.320m with a ridge height of 3.428m

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360650

• 7 Jan 2020N/a

  the construction of a slatted shed, cattle handling facility and concrete apron

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 209

• 30 Aug 2018Conditional

  an entrance for forestry purposes

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18863

• 3 Apr 2018Conditional

  a slatted cattle shed

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18311

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 Curragh.

Recorded monuments

• LI036-177 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on crest of slight E-W ridge. Oval area (34.2m N-S; 45m E-W) defined by scarped edge (ext. H 0.9m; Wth 1.5M) with an external fosse (D 0.5m; Wth 2.3M). Entrance (Wth 9.5m) with causeway across fosse at NW. Field boundary runs along outer edge of fosse NW->N and NE->ESE. East portion of interior used as garden in recent past, but this area now covered by vegetation overgrowth. Otherwise, interior level, dry and clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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, 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_518 (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 Curragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Curragh · An Currach

Area

2,296,534 m² (229.65 ha, 567.49 acres)

Civil parish

Mahoonagh, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Mahoonagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mahoonagh electoral division: 550 people in 188 households; 87% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balliniska, Ballydoorty, Ballynakill More, Ballyregan, Cooliska, Garryduff, Mahoonagh Beg, Mahoonagh More

Placenames

Curragh 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.