# Ballycurragh, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Aghancon, barony of Ballybritt, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile Mhic Mhurchú.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,626,442 m² (162.64 ha, 401.9 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 63,843 m² (6.38 ha, 15.78 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Aghancon, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/aghancon.md
- Barony: Ballybritt
- Electoral division: Aghancon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 371 people lived in 144 households in the Aghancon electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41736
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180123
- Centre: latitude 53.027708, longitude -7.789749 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycurragh, from 215 m² to 195,371 m² (19.54 ha, 48.28 acres); 28 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 305784: 195,371 m² (19.54 ha, 48.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305784.md
- Parcel 307553: 159,597 m² (15.96 ha, 39.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307553.md
- Parcel 303321: 120,917 m² (12.09 ha, 29.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303321.md
- Parcel 313130: 111,219 m² (11.12 ha, 27.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313130.md
- Parcel 298583: 109,208 m² (10.92 ha, 26.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298583.md
- Parcel 296606: 101,504 m² (10.15 ha, 25.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296606.md
- Parcel 279916: 95,433 m² (9.54 ha, 23.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279916.md
- Parcel 283188: 91,923 m² (9.19 ha, 22.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283188.md
- Parcel 306795: 91,675 m² (9.17 ha, 22.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306795.md
- Parcel 307232: 84,362 m² (8.44 ha, 20.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307232.md
- Parcel 287394: 83,232 m² (8.32 ha, 20.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287394.md
- Parcel 274985: 68,835 m² (6.88 ha, 17.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274985.md
- Parcel 269175: 63,843 m² (6.38 ha, 15.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269175.md
- Parcel 304977: 63,025 m² (6.3 ha, 15.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304977.md
- Parcel 303129: 57,791 m² (5.78 ha, 14.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303129.md
- Parcel 284308: 50,444 m² (5.04 ha, 12.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284308.md
- Parcel 277758: 21,558 m² (2.16 ha, 5.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277758.md
- Parcel 277175: 14,924 m² (1.49 ha, 3.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277175.md
- Parcel 279000: 13,863 m² (1.39 ha, 3.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279000.md
- Parcel 295209: 13,490 m² (1.35 ha, 3.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295209.md
- Parcel 5936895: 5,469 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5936895.md
- Parcel 268690: 5,339 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268690.md
- Parcel 287238: 2,798 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287238.md
- Parcel 275911: 2,352 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275911.md
- Parcel 5936905: 215 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5936905.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Ballycurragh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

No planning application touches the townland of Ballycurragh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballycurragh.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- OF039-033: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF039-033----. Formerly situated in poorly drained just E of the Fuarawn river, with earthwork (OF039-024----) 140m to the E. No surface remains visible, site was levelled in 1978 (Cunningham 1978, 127). Cunningham (1987, 126-7) described this levelled monument as a raised circular-shaped earthwork (H 5m; top diam. 40m) enclosed at its base by a fosse. Depicted as a circular earthwork or platform on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. On the revised 25-inch OS map the monument is shown as a circular enclosure, possibly a ringfort [raised rath type], consisting of a raised interior enclosed by an earthen bank reduced to a scarp from N to E and an external fosse. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 30 December 2011
- OF039-034: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF039-034----. No surface remains of monument that was levelled in 1978 (Cunningham 1987, 127). The monument was described by Cunningham as a raised sub-rectangular shaped earthwork or platform (H 2m; 34m E-W; 27m N-S). Depicted on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch maps as a circular earthwork or platform which was located 140m E of a possible ringfort (OF039-033----). The proximity of the site to both Glebe Rectory and Ballycurragh House, along with the presence of trees planted around the perimeter of the monument suggests that this earthwork may have been a tree-ring of 18th/19th century date. Alternatively this earthwork may have been an earlier monument that was re-used as a landscape feature in the 18th/19th century. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 23 May 2011
- OF039-035: Crannog, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF039-035----. Situated within the floodplain of the Fuarawn river which lies to the W of site. Rectangular-shaped platform earthwork (ext. dims E-W 15.60m x 34m N-S) with no evidence of an enclosing bank or fosse and no entrance feature. The summit of the mound (dims. 24m x 8m) is quite level. It is not clear if this earthwork may have been the site of a crannog described in 1979 as, 'in the townland of Ballycurragh; all that remains now is an oval platform of clay in the bog' (Feehan 1979, 94). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 30 December 2011
- OF039-052: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF039-052----. Situated on a low ridge in undulating countryside. Poorly preserved bivallate ringfort which now survives as a circular area (diam 50m) defined by two poorly preserved earthen banks visible from S to W only with intervening fosse (Wth 13m). A field wall intersects S side of site destroying the enclosing banks. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011
- OF039-053: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF039-053----. On a slight terrace on the W side of a ridge in undulating countryside. Roughly circular mound (H 1.5m; diam. 7m E-W; diam. 5.5m N-S ) enclosed by a wide fosse (Wth 2m) which is barely discernible with external bank (Wth 1m; ext. H 0.5m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Teach Russell, worker's house, 1810–1830, Regional interest, registry number 14939012, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF&regno=14939012. One of a pair of three-bay two-storey former worker's houses, built c.1820. Set back from road. Now in use as a private dwelling. Half-hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles with rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Random coursed walls with traces of render. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows and sandstone sills. Square-headed door opening with timber battened half door. Stone outbuilding to rear site with corrugated-iron roof. Dry stone wall to front site with wrought-iron pedestrian gate.
- Teach Colleen, worker's house, 1810–1830, Regional interest, registry number 14939013, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF&regno=14939013. One of a pair of three-bay two-storey former worker's houses, built c.1820. Now in use as a private dwelling. Set back from road. Half-hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles with rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows and concrete sills. Square-headed door opening with timber battened half door. Stone outbuilding to rear site with corrugated-iron roof. Dry stone wall to front site with wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Located beside Ballycurragh Woods. Single-arch bridge adjacent to cottage.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballycurragh, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballycurragh.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballycurragh.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballycurragh.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballycurragh.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ballycurragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Aghancon: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghancon.md
- Brownhills: https://everytownland.com/offaly/brownhills.md
- Glebe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glebe-180701.md
- Leap: https://everytownland.com/offaly/leap.md
- Lissanierin: https://everytownland.com/offaly/lissanierin.md
- Roscomroe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/roscomroe.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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