Curragh (Mechum)

86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curragh (Mechum), from 4 m² to 20,424 m² (2.04 ha, 5.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 4 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.

• R2Established Residential (Existing residential)
  ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath · 86 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Sporting Recreational (Active open space)
  ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
  ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 31 Aug 2025Conditional

  Retention Permission for the construction of a two storey extension to the rear of his existing house consisting of a kitchen and bathroom on the ground floor and an additional bedroom on the first floor

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560433

• 15 Apr 2021Conditional

  Retention permission for a two-storey extension to the rear of our dwelling house

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21194

• 2 May 2019Conditional

  Construction of an extension to the side of existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 197102

• 13 Sept 2017Refused

  The development will consist of the development of eighteen, two bedroomed apartments within a single building over two and three floors and to include associated site works.

  Outline permission, 18 homes · Westmeath County Council, 177170

• 7 Jun 2017N/a

  The development will consist of the development of eighteen, two bedroomed apartments and associated site works

  Outline permission · Westmeath County Council, 177098

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 Curragh (Mechum).

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curragh (Mechum).

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curragh (Mechum).

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 Curragh (Mechum), about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map gives no landslide susceptibility class here. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1610 (ZIP).

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 Curragh (Mechum) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Curragh (Mechum)

Area

37,255 m² (3.73 ha, 9.21 acres)

Civil parish

St. Mary's, and its townlands

Barony

Brawny

Electoral division

Athlone East Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,811 people lived in 1,982 households in the Athlone East Urban electoral division. 46% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Athlone, Cloghanboy (Homan), Cloghanboy West, Retreat, Warrens Fields

Placenames

Curragh (Mechum) 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.