Curraghboy

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghboy, from 203 m² to 95,580 m² (9.56 ha, 23.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Curraghboy 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.

• 17 Aug 2026N/a

  refurbish/provide energy upgrades to existing vacant derelict dwelling, construct extension at ground and first floor levels. Provision of new foul treatment unit/percolation area and associated siste development works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 26193

• 24 Jan 2024Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house with car port & connected domestic shed, proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site works at the above address.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460016

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Mullet/Blacksod Bay Complex SAC 000470
• Special Protection Area: Blacksod Bay/Broad Haven SPA 004037
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mullet/Blacksod Bay Complex 000470

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curraghboy.

Architectural heritage

• Pier/jetty, 1820–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pier, begun 1822; in progress 1824; "perfect" 1830, on a cranked L-shaped plan with seaweed-covered granite ashlar battered walls having cut-granite coping. Set extending into An Sáilín [Saleen Harbour].

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

At the centre of the townland of Curraghboy, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Curraghboy · An Currach Buí

Area

571,903 m² (57.19 ha, 141.32 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Erris

Electoral division

An Geata Mór Thuaidh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,014 people lived in 386 households in the An Geata M�r Thuaidh electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacsherron, Binghamstown, Cross (Wallace) East, Cross (Wallace) West, Rinanagh

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Curraghboy 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.