Currygrane

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Currygrane, from 720 m² to 277,585 m² (27.76 ha, 68.59 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 Currygrane 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 2018Conditional

  proposed construction of an Agricultural Shed for the storage of grain and other agricultural foodstuffs and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1837

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 Currygrane.

Recorded monuments

• LF009-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, straddling the top and upper E slope of a NNW-SSE ridge. A raised oval area (c. 65m NW-SE; c. 52m NE-SW) enclosed from SW-N-ESE by a wide low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.6-7m; H 0.3-0.8m) and defined elsewhere by a scarp (H 1.5m). A shallow fosse (Wth 4.6-7m; D 0.2-0.5m) survives from SSE-S-NW. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 5 December 2011

• LF009-035 Crannog
  Description

  In the S part of Currygrane Lough. This oval, low-cairn crannog (17.2m N–S; 10.45m E–W) rises 1.5m above the sandy and muddy lake-bed. Most of it is submerged and is overgrown with trees and shrubs. The only part above the water is a half-moon-shaped mound (10m E–W; 4m N–S; H 0.45m) located off-centre to the S. It is composed of gravel and small stones. Around this mound the crannog seems to slope gradually underwater from a depth of 0.5–2m. Its edges were difficult to distinguish. Another crannog (LF009-034----) lies c. 175m to the NE. Compiled by: Christina Fredengren Date of upload: 13 January 2013

Architectural heritage

• Currygrane House, pet cemetery, 1895–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pet cemetery, c. 1900, having a collection of upstanding cut limestone grave markers. Located to the northwest of the site of Currygrane House (demolished) and to the south of Ballinalee. Complex of two-storey outbuildings (13400910) adjacent to the south.

• Currygrane House, outbuilding, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding on L-shaped plan, built c. 1820. Formally part of a range of outbuildings enclosing a yard to the northwest of Currygrane House (now demolished). Hipped natural slate roof with raised verges to gable ends, cast-iron rainwater goods and with cast-iron roof light. Whitewashed rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings to first floor with tooled limestone sills and louvred fittings to openings. Square-headed door openings to ground floor with timber battened doors. Two segmental-headed integral carriage arch openings to centre of building having timber lintels; segmental heads two infilled. Incorporated into modern farmyard to the northwest of site of main house. Located to the south of Ballinalee.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Currygrane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Currygrane · Currach Gránna

Area

2,443,284 m² (244.33 ha, 603.75 acres)

Civil parish

Clonbroney, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Currygrane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Currygrane electoral division: 145 people in 53 households; 90% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Acres, Corbeagh, Drummeel, France, Garvagh, Glenoghil, Gorteen, Lissameen

Placenames

Currygrane 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.