Curkin

0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curkin. The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Curkin 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.

• 15 Oct 2025N/a

  permission for the development will consist of the construction of a single-storey dwelling house, an associated mechanical waste water treatment system and percolation area, use existing entrance at public roadside to access a new site entrance from existing private lane, boundaries, landscaping, hardstanding's, drainage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560413

• 24 May 2021N/a

  permission to retain existing building used for the occasional service and maintenance of motor vehicles and also the hardened area which is occasionally used for the temporary storage of motor vehicles together with all ancillary site works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 21286

• 4 Jul 2019Refused

  Permission to erect a one and a half storey dwelling house with single storey element, new site entrance to the public road with entrance piers and gates, proposed driveway, wastewater treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19306

• 4 Jul 2019Conditional

  permission for the replacement of an existing dwelling and outbuildings with a two storey dwelling house with single storey element, new entrance piers and gates, wastewater treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19307

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 Curkin.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curkin.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Curkin, about 1 in 20 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Curkin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Curkin · An Cuircín

Area

271,722 m² (27.17 ha, 67.14 acres)

Civil parish

Errigal Trough, and its townlands

Barony

Trough

Electoral division

Anketell Grove, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,278 people lived in 400 households in the Anketell Grove electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaliskeevan, Attiduff, Brackagh, Dundian, Lisavargy, Lisgrew

Placenames

Curkin 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.