Curraheen

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraheen, from 809 m² to 51,483 m² (5.15 ha, 12.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Curraheen 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.

• 17 Sept 2026N/a

  the reconstruction of a portion of the curved entrance wall, the construction of 4 no. Stone piers, the cladding of the existing masonry wall with stone, the erection of new metal railing on top of wall and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2661088

• 10 Feb 2025Conditional

  construction of a two-storey dwelling house, garage, entrance, installation of a wastewater treatment system and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560107

• 8 Nov 2023Conditional

  the development of a detached garage to include ancillary gym at ground floor level and home office at first floor level and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360813

• 30 May 2019Conditional

  a single storey rear extension and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 19530

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dromore & Bleach Loughs 001030

Recorded monuments

• LI012-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In mixed woodland. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is now completely covered by dense undergrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI012-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In mixed woodland. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is now completely covered by dense undergrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Dromore Castle, gate lodge, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, dated 1883. Comprising gable-fronted end-bay to east and projecting gable-fronted end-bay to west having cat-slide roof over verandah. Pitched overhanging artificial slate roofs with timber bargeboards, finials, ornate brackets and limestone chimneystack. Snecked limestone walls with date stone to west gable, north elevation, plinth course, chamfered quoins, carved heraldic plaque to west gable front (south) elevation and carved plaque with quatrefoil motif to east gable. Square-headed opening to east gable, front elevation and west gable, north (rear) elevation having limestone transoms, block-and-start surrounds and timber casement windows. Square-headed bipartite openings to west gable, front elevation and east gable, north elevation with limestone transoms and mullions, block-and-start surrounds and timber casement windows. Square-headed openings to front and rear elevations having limestone block-and-start surrounds and timber panelled doors. Octagonal painted stone piers to west with replacement timber gates and rubble limestone boundary walls.

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 Curraheen, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Curraheen, St Nessans Rd7 sales
• Curraheen, Knocklong5 sales

Name

Curraheen · An Curraichín

Area

647,556 m² (64.76 ha, 160.01 acres)

Civil parish

Kildimo, and its townlands

Barony

Kenry

Electoral division

Kildimo, the unit of the census

Census 2022

688 people lived in 235 households in the Kildimo electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynolan, Bolane, Dromore, Glennameade, Kilmacat, Pallas, Shanpallas

Placenames

Curraheen 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.