Kilcurry

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcurry, from 295 m² to 447,201 m² (44.72 ha, 110.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 43 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 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.

• 30 Jul 2025Conditional

  Permission for an extension to existing cemetary to provide 252 number double plots. The proposed extension is within the curtilage of protected structure LHS-004-016.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 25117

• 17 Jul 2025N/a

  Permission for an extension to existing cemetery to existing to provide 252 number double plots.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 25109

• 29 Sept 2017Refused

  10 year permission for the development of a whiskey warehouse facility consisting of 13 no. maturation warehouses, ancillary buildings, structures and all ancillary site development works on a site within an area of 45 hectares (111 acres). The proposed development also provides for the creation of a site for community use with access via an upgraded existing entrance from Church Road. Each proposed warehouse has a gross floor area of approximately 4,000 m2, divided into 2 no. 2,000 m2 compartments, has a typical ridge height of approximately 10 metres and includes mounted external lighting and CCTV cameras. Ancillary buildings and structures include a single storey facilities building which will include a forklift garage; 2 no. water tanks with ancillary pumphouse; ESB substation; 1 no. public lighting pole incorporating CCTV surveillance camera. Ancillary site development works include the demolition of existing derelict outhouses and stables; installation of a septic tank and associated percolation area; 2 no. bored wells; fire water retention pond and a surface water attenuation system consisting of 2 no. attenuation basins with a proposed outfall to the Kilcurry River; staff parking area, berming; landscaping; perimeter fencing and gates. Access to the proposed development will be via a new entrance from the R177 Armagh Road and a secondary access is proposed via an upgraded existing entrance from Church Road. The proposed development relates to the provision of an establishment to which the Major Accident Directive applies. An Environment Impact Assessment Report (EIAR, formerly known as an EIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 17730

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 Kilcurry.

Recorded monuments

• LH004-054 Souterrain
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Consists of a passage (L c. 9m, Wth c. 1.1m, H c. 1.1m) running WSW and ending in an expanded terminal (Wth c. 2m). Step dropping c. 0.45m in the middle of the SSE side of the expanded terminal gives access to a gallery (L c. 7.2m, Wth c. 1.1m, H c. 1.2m) extending SSE. (CLAJ 1957, 37)

• LH004-060001 Church
  Description

  Situated on top of a natural hillock. Indicated on the 1835 'OS 6-inch' map and believed to have been built around 1831 (H.G. Tempest, 1952b). Remains include the grass-covered foundation walls of the nave, the W wall and doorway which leads to a square tower. (SMR file) Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 17 November 2011

• LH004-060002 Graveyard
  Description

  Sub-rectangular graveyard (map dims. L 65m; Wth 30m) with church remains (LH004-060001-) in NW. The earliest noted graveslab dates to 1861, but there are probably earlier unmarked burials here. (SMR file) Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 17 November 2011

• LH004-060003 Enclosure
  Description

  There is a tradition of a fort on the site of the church in Kilcurry (LH004-060001-). Referred to as 'Beul teine' or place of Druidical fires. No visible remains. (CLAJ 2, 1908, 37) Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 17 November 2011

Architectural heritage

• Saint Brigid's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1895–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Roman Catholic church, dated 1896. Cruciform-plan, shallow transepts to east and west, apse to south, three-stage tower between east transept and nave, sacristy to south-east. Pitched slate roof, curving to apse, crested clay ridge tiles, stone verge coping to gables with cross finials, half-hipped roof to sacristy, circular stone corbelled chimneystack; moulded cast-iron gutters supported on stone corbels, circular cast-iron downpipes. Rock-faced ashlar granite walling, limestone plinth and string courses. Round-headed lancet windows to nave, chamfered limestone surrounds, wheel and rose windows to gables, decorative carved limestone surrounds, all windows with stained glass leaded lights, paired round-headed arcading to third stage of tower. Square-headed door openings to north and east elevations recessed within round-headed door surround, decorative stone carving to blind arch, doors flanked by polished granite columns, foliate capitals, timber vertically-sheeted double doors, elaborate wrought-iron hinges, accessed by stone steps, north door flanked by round-headed lancet windows with hood moulding; east entrance surmounted by timber carved date plaque "SUB IN VOC S BRIGIDE 1896 REV PATRICIO SEGRAVE, PAROCHO"; round-headed door opening to sacristy, timber vertically-sheeted door, elaborate wrought-iron hinges, surmounted by stained glass fanlight, accessed by stone steps. Interior comprising timber panelled roof, marble altar to south, timber panelled balcony to north, paired polished granite columns separating transepts from nave. Graveyard to north-west. Church situated in own grounds.

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 high, moderately low, 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_2989 (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 Kilcurry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Kilcurry · Cill an Churraigh

Area

713,119 m² (71.31 ha, 176.22 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymascanlan, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Faughart, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Faughart electoral division: 1,065 people in 359 households; 94% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balregan, Balriggan, Carrickedmond, Lurgankeel

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.