Kilcurry
Townland in the civil parish of Taghshinny, barony of Shrule, Co. Longford; in Irish Coill an Churraigh
- Area
- 234.2 ha
- 579 acres
- Land parcels
- 57
- registered freehold, median 4,306 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcurry, from 529 m² to 252,518 m² (25.25 ha, 62.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilcurry 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
2 Sept 2022Refused
for the proposed construction of a log cabin single storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 22209
28 Apr 2022Conditional
proposed changes to site layout, amendments to detached garage previously granted permission under planning reference number PL 15/173
Permission · Longford County Council, 2297
18 Feb 2022Conditional
the proposed construction of a single storey extension to the side of existing bungalow type dwelling house and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2231
23 Jun 2020N/a
1) mobile home type dwelling, 2) to upgrade existing septic tank and percolation area, which currently services the adjacent family home 3) connection for the proposed mobile home into upgraded septic tank 4) use the existing entrance as access to the proposed mobile home, and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20133
14 Nov 2019Conditional
log cabin dwelling which include retention of fence/boundaries, access gate and associated drainage
Retention · Longford County Council, 19302
10 May 2019Conditional
(a) Construction of an agricultural building to include a milking parlour, dairy & wash-room, livestock waiting yard and handling facilities, straw bedded area, underground soiled water tank, livestock cubicles and an underground slatted slurry tank. (b) Erection of a meal bin and water storage tank. (c) Construction of an agricultural building to include straw bedding, an underground slurry flow channel and unroofed dungstead. (d) Construction of a new agricultural entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 19124
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103
Recorded monuments
- LF023-112 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a natural ridge under pasture surrounded by rushes between the N bank of the Inny River and the S bank of the Royal Canal. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 January 2012
Architectural heritage
- Guy's Bridge, bridge, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch humpbacked canal accommodation bridge carrying small road over Royal Canal, built c. 1815. Round/elliptical-headed arch with dressed ashlar limestone voussoirs and dressed ashlar limestone masonry to barrel. Squared rubble limestone construction to spandrel walls, partially rendered, with cut limestone string course at road/deck level. Squared rubble stone construction to parapets (partially rendered) with curving ends terminated in dressed ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan). Dressed limestone coping over parapet walls. Towpath to east bank of canal with dressed limestone retaining walls to canal banks (east and west). Located to the northeast of Ballymahon.
- Molly Ward's Bridge, bridge, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch humpbacked canal accommodation bridge carrying small road over Royal Canal, built c. 1815. Round/elliptical-headed arch with dressed ashlar limestone voussoirs and dressed ashlar limestone masonry to barrel. Squared rubble limestone construction to spandrel walls, partially rendered, with cut limestone string course at road/deck level. Squared rubble stone construction to parapets (partially rendered) with curving ends terminated in dressed ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan). Dressed limestone coping over parapet walls. Towpath to south bank of canal with dressed limestone retaining walls to canal banks (north and south). Located to the northeast of Ballymahon.
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
- 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_1774 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilcurry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcurry · Coill an Churraigh
- Area
- 2,342,214 m² (234.22 ha, 578.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Taghshinny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shrule
- Electoral division
- Kilglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilglass electoral division: 730 people in 280 households; 81% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonard, Corrabola, Kilnacarrow, Listobit, Pallas Beg, Pallas More, Taghshinny
- Placenames
- Kilcurry 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.