Curraghbeg

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghbeg, from 13 m² to 424,266 m² (42.43 ha, 104.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Curraghbeg 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.

• 7 Feb 2024Conditional

  Retention of two single storey detached ancillary outbuildings to rear garden of existing dwelling as constructed, one comprises a Garden Store and the other a Garden/Games Room, Study & Toilet and all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460065

• 13 Dec 2023N/a

  Retention of 2 Single Storey Detached Ancillary Outbuildings to Rear Garden of Existing Dwelling as constructed, one comprises a Garden Store and the other a Garden/Games Room, Study & Toilet and all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360526

• 25 Oct 2023Conditional

  Permission to retain porch constructed to the front of dwelling incl all site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360420

• 13 Dec 2021Conditional

  permission for the construction of 2 no. horticultural buildings, extensions to 2 no. existing buildings previously granted permission under planning ref. no. 08/684 & 16/540, for solar panels on the roof of proposed unit no. 6, a plant room, a new rainwater soakage area and for associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 211479

• 10 Jan 2020Conditional

  Permission for the construction of 2 no. silage bases and associated site works on a site previously granted permission for same under planning ref. no. 08684

  Permission · Louth County Council, 207

• 26 Jul 2019Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a single storey dwelling, associated domestic garage, open new vehicular entrance to site, new waste water treatment system and polishing filter, together with all associated site development works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 19600

• 5 Jul 2019N/a

  Permission for the construction of a single storey dwelling, associated domestic garage, open new vehicular entrance to site, new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, together with all associated site development works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 19534

• 12 Dec 2018Conditional

  Permission for a development to consist of the construction of a horticultural building comprising a coldstore, a goods store, internal loading / unloading / packaging areas, roof mounted solar panels and for associated siteworks.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 181012

• 25 Oct 2018N/a

  The development will consist of the construction of a single storey dwelling, associated domestic garage, new private water well, open new vehicular entrance to site, new wasterwater treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site development works. *Significant Further Information Received on 28/03/2019*

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18857

• 28 Aug 2018N/a

  The devleopment will consist of the construction of a single storey dwelling, associated domestic garage, new private water well, open new vehicular entrance to site, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site development works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18685

• 4 May 2018Conditional

  Permission for a development to consist of the construction of a covered area located between existing agricultural buildings previously granted under permission 06/771, 08/684, 13/293 & 16/540, and associated siteworks.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 18343

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 Curraghbeg.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curraghbeg.

Architectural heritage

• Curraghbeg House, country house, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey house, built c.1750. Lean-to cat-slide roofed extension to west of north elevation, pitched two-storey return to east of north elevation, slight projecting entrance porch to south. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, red brick flat-capped chimneystacks, roughcast flat-capped chimneystack to rear extension, half-round metal gutters on corbelled eaves course, circular cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast rendered walling, painted smooth rendered plinth, painted smooth rendered walling to porch with chamfered corners. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered patent reveals, painted stone sills; painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows to south elevation, four-over four sliding sash to west, three-over-three sliding sash and painted timber casement windows to north. Entrance porch to south, segmental-headed door opening, painted timber door with four raised-and-fielded panels, decorative leaded fanlight, shallow curved stone; square-headed door opening to north, painted timber vertically-sheeted door. Outbuildings to north surrounding concrete yard dated 1858; pitched slate roofs, random rubble stone walling, block-and-start red brick surrounds to windows and door openings, segmental-headed carriage entrances, painted timber vertically-sheeted doors, date stone "1858" over door. House situated in own grounds, garden to south, bounded from fields by painted wrought-iron bar fence.

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2860 (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.

No address of the register names Curraghbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Curraghbeg · An Currach Beag

Area

943,919 m² (94.39 ha, 233.25 acres)

Civil parish

Ardee, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Ardee Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardee Rural electoral division: 3,009 people in 1,003 households; 94% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardee, Ballygowan, Blackstick, Boharnamoe, Hasley, Shanlis, Stonylane

Placenames

Curraghbeg 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.