Curryaun

71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curryaun, from 145 m² to 661,440 m² (66.14 ha, 163.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 49 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 Curryaun 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.

• 22 Nov 2019Conditional

  RETAIN CONCRETE BASE AS CONSTRUCTED, AND COMPLETE NEW GENERAL -PURPOSE AGRICULTURAL SHED ALONG WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 19930

• 21 Oct 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCT A NEW GENERAL PURPOSE ALONG WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19830

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 Curryaun.

Recorded monuments

• MA072-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a hill, which provides excellent views. Raised circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by a scarp (ext. H 1.8m, at N), which is enhanced by the natural hill slope, especially at SE−S. The scarp retains a low internal lip at W−NE and is topped by a drystone field wall at S−W. A portion of the scarp at NE has been dug away. Remnants of a trackway, flanked by field walls, skirts the base of the scarp at NW−NE; it lead E to a vernacular farmstead, now ruined, which is shown on the1838 OS 6-inch map. The interior appears to have a slight slope down from centre to N. It was covered in an impenetrable thicket of blackthorn at the time of inspection in 1997. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 5 May 2021

• MA072-059 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on top of a ridge at the W end, with a steep fall of ground to N and E and a more gradual undulating slope at S. Roughly circular (diam. c. 25m) earthen platform defined by a scarp (H 1-1.2m at NW), which is incorporated into later field fences at N and S, and skirted by a farm trackway at W. The interior appears to be level. The rath is engulfed in a dense, impenetrable thicket of blackthorn, which impeded inspection. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 5 May 2021

• MA072-060 Enclosure
  Description

  In a dense thicket of blackthorn and brambles, located on a hill. This enclosure is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch maps as a D-shaped embanked enclosure (c. 35m E−W; c. 20m N−S) bordered on the straight side to S by a road, probably representing the N half of an originally circular enclosure, the S half of which was truncated by the road. It is not shown on later map editions. The location of the enclosure is at least partly encompassed within a sub-rectangular field (c. 30m N–S; c. 25m E−W) enclosed by a stone field fence; this field is engulfed in impenetrable overgrowth and could not be inspected examined. There is no visible trace of the enclosure in either of the adjoining fields to W and E. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 May 2021

• MA072-062 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough pasture, located on a rise, overlooked by a higher hill at ESE. There is a ruined vernacular cottage immediately to N, and the surrounding farmland is largely under forestry. Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (diam. 15-20m); not shown on later map editions. A slightly raised area (max. dim. c. 24m) defined at W–N by a curving, apparently natural slope (H c. 3m at N) and bordered to E and S by field fences may indicated the location of the enclosure, but no enclosing bank/scarp is evident. The centre of this area is raised slightly higher than the rest, with an uneven ground surface strewn with a number of boulders. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 May 2021

• MA072-128 Standing stone - pair
  Description

  In an expanse of rough, heather-covered bog, strewn with boulders and broken by rock-outcropping, located at the top of broad, relatively flat-topped knoll or rise, with extensive views in all directions. Three lakes, Lough Nambrackkeagh, Middle Lough and Crocknacloy Lough are located within a few hundred meters to NW, W and S respectively. The far horizon is defined at NW by the Nephin Mountain and the Nephin Beg Range and at NE by the Ox Mountains. This stone pair consists of a large upright earth-fast boulder (L 1.3m NNE−SSW; Wth 0.8m; H 1.3m) with a sloping top which rises gently from NNE to SSW, and a prostrate stone (L 2.25m E−W; Wth c. 1.3m; T 0.3m) which is located 1.2m to N, with its long axis perpendicular to that of the upright stone. The S side of the prostrate stone is partly embedded in the ground; the higher N side appears to rest on a few small horizontal stones, creating a small space (H 0.35m) beneath the stone. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 May 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curryaun.

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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Curryaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Curryaun · Corr Riáin

Area

2,382,332 m² (238.23 ha, 588.69 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconduff, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Brackloon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Brackloon electoral division: 655 people in 236 households; 87% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnacahoge, Castlecrunnoge, Cornaveagh, Derryronan, Knockranny, Shammerbaun, Shammerdoo, Tullynahoo

Placenames

Curryaun 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.