# Curraheen, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kildimo, barony of Kenry, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Curraichín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 647,556 m² (64.76 ha, 160.01 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,924 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kildimo, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/kildimo.md - Barony: Kenry - Electoral division: Kildimo, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32148 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120842 - Centre: latitude 52.63759, longitude -8.841094 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraheen, from 809 m² to 51,483 m² (5.15 ha, 12.72 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1620759: 51,483 m² (5.15 ha, 12.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1620759.md - Parcel 1646712: 47,760 m² (4.78 ha, 11.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1646712.md - Parcel 1646704: 41,748 m² (4.17 ha, 10.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1646704.md - Parcel 1596657: 3,690 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596657.md - Parcel 1670782: 3,397 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1670782.md - Parcel 5386082: 3,070 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5386082.md - Parcel 1639286: 2,007 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1639286.md - Parcel 1590467: 1,990 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590467.md - Parcel 1592294: 1,963 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1592294.md - Parcel 1603080: 1,886 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603080.md - Parcel 1599813: 1,873 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599813.md - Parcel 1600974: 1,868 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1600974.md - Parcel 1600522: 1,819 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1600522.md - Parcel 1597636: 1,815 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597636.md - Parcel 1603656: 1,790 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603656.md - Parcel 1599245: 1,770 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599245.md - Parcel 1661410: 1,145 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1661410.md - Parcel 1669289: 809 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669289.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 17 Sept 2026, Limerick County Council 2661088: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661088/0 - 10 Feb 2025, Limerick County Council 2560107: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a two-storey dwelling house, garage, entrance, installation of a wastewater treatment system and associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560107/0 - 8 Nov 2023, Limerick County Council 2360813: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360813/0 - 30 May 2019, Limerick County Council 19530: Conditional. Retention. a single storey rear extension and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19530/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dromore & Bleach Loughs, site code 001030 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI012-002: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI012-002----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI012-003----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Dromore Castle, gate lodge, 1880–1885, Regional interest, registry number 21901201, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21901201. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/curraheen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/curraheen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/curraheen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Curraheen, St Nessans Rd: 7 sales, https://everytownland.com/limerick/curraheen-st-nessans-road.md - Curraheen, Knocklong: 5 sales, https://everytownland.com/limerick/curraheen-knocklong.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballynolan: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynolan.md - Bolane: https://everytownland.com/limerick/bolane.md - Dromore: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dromore.md - Glennameade: https://everytownland.com/limerick/glennameade.md - Kilmacat: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilmacat.md - Pallas: https://everytownland.com/limerick/pallas-121658.md - Shanpallas: https://everytownland.com/limerick/shanpallas.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/curraheen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/curraheen