# Curragh, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Geashill, barony of Geashill, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Currach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 920,617 m² (92.06 ha, 227.49 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,465 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Geashill, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/geashill.md - Barony: Geashill - Electoral division: Geashill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Geashill electoral division: 1,659 people in 562 households; 86% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42057 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180533 - Centre: latitude 53.242382, longitude -7.345292 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curragh, from 1,139 m² to 372,440 m² (37.24 ha, 92.03 acres); 27 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 295678: 372,440 m² (37.24 ha, 92.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295678.md - Parcel 284239: 190,583 m² (19.06 ha, 47.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284239.md - Parcel 290855: 108,032 m² (10.8 ha, 26.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/290855.md - Parcel 293503: 106,627 m² (10.66 ha, 26.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293503.md - Parcel 279657: 95,839 m² (9.58 ha, 23.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279657.md - Parcel 298244: 14,958 m² (1.5 ha, 3.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298244.md - Parcel 284242: 6,817 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284242.md - Parcel 271319: 4,931 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271319.md - Parcel 314604: 4,465 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314604.md - Parcel 312945: 4,242 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312945.md - Parcel 5803325: 3,760 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5803325.md - Parcel 312065: 3,503 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312065.md - Parcel 5322665: 3,262 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5322665.md - Parcel 307756: 2,164 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307756.md - Parcel 2478216: 2,035 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2478216.md - Parcel 281690: 1,599 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/281690.md - Parcel 304454: 1,139 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/304454.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Curragh 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) 7 applications, newest first. - 9 Nov 2023, Offaly County Council 2360175: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. the extension to the side or East of the existing house and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360175/0 - 20 Nov 2020, Offaly County Council 20575: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. AMENDMENT OF PREVIOUS PERMISSION GRANTED UNDER REG. REF: 19/248 AND ABP-306693-20, AS FOLLOWS: 1. REDUCTION IN SIZE OF THE PERMITTED EXTENSION, 2. REPLACEMENT OF THE GLAZED ROOF BETWEEN THE HOUSE AND PERMITTED EXTENSION WITH A FLAT ROOF WITH ROOFLIGHTS, 3. MINOR ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS OF THE PERMITTED EXTENSION, 4. NEW ROOFLIGHT TO EXISTING DWELLING, 5. ALTERATIONS TO THE PROPOSED LAYOUT, AND ALL OTHER ANCILLARY WORKS. THE PROPOSALS ARE WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20575/0 - 3 Nov 2020, Offaly County Council 20536: N/a. Permission. AMMENDMENT OF PREVIOUS PERMISSION GRANTED UNDER REG. REF: 19/248 AND ABP-306693-20, AS FOLLOWS: 1. REDUCTION IN SIZE OF PERMITTED EXTENSION, 2. REPLACEMENT OF THE GLAZED ROOF BETWEEN THE HOUSE AND PERMITTED EXTENSION WITH A FLAT ROOF WITH ROOFLIGHTS, 3. MINOR ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS OF THE PERMITTED EXTENSION, 4. NEW ROOFLIGHT TO EXISTING DWELLING, 5. ALTERATIONS TO THE PROPOSED LAYOUT, AND ALL OTHER ANCILLARY WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20536/0 - 2 Dec 2019, Offaly County Council 19572: Conditional. Retention, 2 homes. (A) EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED, (B) PERMISSION TO CONVERT EXISTING ATTIC SPACE OF HOUSE INTO LIVABLE ACCOMMODATION TO INCLUDE ROOF LIGHTS, (C) PERMISSION TO INSTALL SOLAR PANELS TO THE HOUSE FRONT ELEVATION PITCHED ROOF, (D) PERMISSION FOR GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATE SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19572/0 - 26 Nov 2019, Offaly County Council 19559: N/a. Retention. (A) EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED, (B) PERMISSION TO CONVERT EXISTING ATTIC SPACE OF HOUSE INTO LIVABLE ACCOMMODATION TO INCLUDE ROOF LIGHTS, (C) PERMISSION TO INSTALL SOLAR PANELS TO THE HOUSE FRONT ELEVATION PITCHED ROOF, (D) PERMISSION FOR GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATE SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19559/0 - 30 May 2019, Offaly County Council 19248: Refused. Permission, 1 home. MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS TO THE EXISTING FORGE AND OUTBUILDINGS, WHICH IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE, RENOVATION AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING COTTAGE AND SHED TO INCLUDE TWO STOREY RESIDENTIAL EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING COTTAGE, WHICH IS WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE LISTED IN OFFALY CDP 2014 - 2020 RPS REF 35-13 AND NIAH REF 14814015, A NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19248/0 - 15 May 2019, Offaly County Council 19221: N/a. Permission. RENOVATIONS, ALTERATIONS, DEMOLITIONS AND ADDITIONS TO EXISTING STRUCTURES TO INCLUDE A TWO STOREY RESIDENTIAL EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING STRUCTURES, A NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES IN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE LISTED IN OFFALY CDP 2014 - 2020 RPS REF 35-13 AND NIAH REF 14814015. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19221/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Curragh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curragh. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - The Forge, forge/smithy, 1850–1890, Regional interest, registry number 14814015, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14814015. Detached gable-fronted single-bay single-storey former forge, built c.1870, with two-bay side elevation, outshot to east and return abutting outbuilding to rear. Fronts onto road within a farmyard. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and timber bargeboards. Random coursed limestone walls with tooled stone quoins. Casement windows with stone sills. Horseshoe-shaped opening to gable-front with ashlar voussoirs and timber battened double doors. Timber battened door to rear return. Random coursed stone outbuildings to site with pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs. Cast-iron pump to site. Yard bounded by rendered wall. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: Susceptibility 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 Curragh. - 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/curragh-180533.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/curragh-180533.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/curragh-180533.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Curragh 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) - Alderborough: https://everytownland.com/offaly/alderborough.md - Ballymooney: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballymooney.md - Derryweelan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derryweelan.md - Killellery: https://everytownland.com/offaly/killellery.md - Lugmore: https://everytownland.com/offaly/lugmore.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/offaly/curragh-180533 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/curragh-180533