Doonacurry
Doonacurry is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommock, barony of Rathcline, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Tamhnach an Churraigh.
- Area
- 34.4 ha
- 85 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 21,899 m² (2.19 ha, 5.41 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonacurry, from 286 m² to 78,831 m² (7.88 ha, 19.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Doonacurry 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
20 Dec 2024Conditional
a 10 Year Planning Permission for a solar farm and energy storage compound with a total area of circa 130 hectares. The proposed development will consist of a solar farm comprising of c. 661,500 sq.m of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames, associated string inverters mounted to rear of panels and 42 no. single storey electrical transformer stations. The proposed development includes an energy storage compound consisting of 38 no. containerised energy storage modules and associated plant and equipment, 10 no. transformers, 2 no. auxiliary transformers, 1 no. medium voltage control / switching substation and 1 no. spare parts container. The proposed development will also include underground electrical ducting and cabling within the development site and within the L1139, L1137, L1135, R392 and L1132 public roads, and crossing of the Royal Canal (either by open trench or horizontal directional drill), temporary construction compounds, security fencing, CCTV, access tracks (including clear span bridge over Donacurry River), landscaping, drainage and all ancillary development works and apparatus necessary to facilitate the proposed development. Construction and operational access will be via 5 no. existing entrances from the L1139, L1137, L1135 and L1132 which will be upgraded and 2 no. new entrances from the L11351. The operational lifespan of the solar farm will be 40 years and planning permission is requested for this duration. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application
Permission · Longford County Council, 2460325
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 Doonacurry.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Doonacurry.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Doonacurry.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Doonacurry, about 1 in 10 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doonacurry.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Doonacurry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Doonacurry · Tamhnach an Churraigh
- Area
- 343,849 m² (34.38 ha, 84.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommock, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathcline
- Electoral division
- Ledwithstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 379 people lived in 142 households in the Ledwithstown electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardoghil, Cornacarta, Laragh, Ledwithstown, Mullawornia
- Placenames
- Doonacurry 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.