Curry (Kirwan)

109 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curry (Kirwan), from 18 m² to 189,275 m² (18.93 ha, 46.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 45 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 Curry (Kirwan) 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 Apr 2026Conditional

  retain side extension as built to existing house and to retain existing domestic garage as per documents lodged

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2698

• 10 Sept 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a dwelling house, garage, septic tank and percolation area all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560620

• 21 Feb 2025Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2563

• 15 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20989

• 10 Feb 2020N/a

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2074

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: River Moy SAC 002298

Recorded monuments

• MA100-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on E-facing slope of low hill. Circular raised area (34m N-S; 34m E-W), enclosed by two earthen banks, with intervening fosse (D 1.6m). Inner bank (H 0.8m) and fosse heavily overgrown. Outer bank (H 0.4m) levelled; W to E. Entrance (Wth 3.2m) with causeway, on E. Souterrain (MA100-033001-) in SW of interior. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 149. Date of upload: 24 January 2013

• MA100-033001 Souterrain
  Description

  In centre of ringfort (MA100-033----). L-shaped; two stone built chambers roofed with capstones. Entrance (H 0.5m; Wth 0.7m) opens into Chamber 1 (L 4.4m; Wth 0.9m; H 1.4m), orientated NW-SE. Constructed of several courses of dry-stone walling, roofed by six lintels resting on projecting corbelling. Chamber 2 (L 7.5m; Wth 3.1m; H 3m), orientated NE-SW, accessed through small doorway constructed of two jambs and a lintel. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 514. Date of upload: 24 January 2013

• MA100-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope, 30m NE of ringfort (MA100-035----). Circular area (36m N-S; 36.5m E-W), enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.6m), levelled NE to S. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 150. Date of upload: 24 January 2013

• MA100-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. To NE is ringfort (MA100-034----). Circular raised area (33m N-S; 34m E-W), enclosed by substantial earthen bank (H 1.5m), now heavily overgrown. Break in bank on ENE (Wth 3.7m). Possible souterrain (MA100-035001-) in SE. Field fence ajoins site on S. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 151. Date of upload: 24 January 2013

• MA100-035001 Souterrain
  Description

  In SE of ringfort (MA100-034----). A large stone may be part of a blocked up souterrain. Inaccessible at time of survey. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 544. Date of upload: 24 January 2013

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1910–1922 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron "lamp box" post box, between 1910-22; extant 1925, with "GR [Georgius Rex]" royal cipher. Set in boundary wall on a corner site.

• Farm house, 1840–1894 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1894. Extensively renovated. For sale, 2013. Replacement pitched reed thatch roof of collared timber construction with remains of rope twist above exposed hazel or sally lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, rendered chimney stack having "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta pots, and shuttered concrete coping to gables. Coursed rubble limestone battered walls with squared limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and reinforced concrete lintels framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows having exposed sash boxes. Square-headed opposing door openings with reinforced concrete lintels framing replacement glazed timber boarded half-doors. Interior including kitchen retaining hearth, timber surrounds to opposing door openings framing replacement timber boarded doors, and exposed collared timber roof construction with timber boarded vaulted ceiling. Set in landscaped grounds perpendicular to road with rendered pier to perimeter supporting barley twist-detailed wrought iron gate.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Curry (Kirwan).

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 Curry (Kirwan) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Curry (Kirwan) · Na Curraigh (Kirwan)

Area

2,379,178 m² (237.92 ha, 587.91 acres)

Civil parish

Mayo, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Newbrook, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newbrook electoral division: 554 people in 201 households; 92% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinaster, Creggaun, Cullentragh, Curry (Macmanus), Curry (Macmanus), Gowel, Oory, Summerhill North, Summerhill South, Tullybeg Glebe

Placenames

Curry (Kirwan) 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.