Curraghkeel

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghkeel, from 2,859 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres) to 286,899 m² (28.69 ha, 70.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Curraghkeel 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.

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

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Special Protection Area: Corofin Wetlands SPA 004220
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926

Recorded monuments

• CL025-010 Enclosure
  Description

  On the summit of an E-W ridge in pasture. Hachured as a rath on the 1840 OS 6-inch map an indicated with a single line of hachures on the 1920 (Cassini) edition. The townland boundary between Curraghkeel and Liscullaun curves slightly to respect the site and forms the E perimeter. On inspection in 1999 there were no visible traces at ground level. Faint traces of the NW perimeter are visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date: 24 March 2017). Compiled by: Mary Tunney   Date of upload: 19 November 2025

Architectural heritage

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

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 Curraghkeel, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Curraghkeel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Curraghkeel

Area

434,015 m² (43.4 ha, 107.25 acres)

Civil parish

Rath, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Corrofin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,362 people lived in 535 households in the Corrofin electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baunkyle, Carnaun, Clifden, Liscullaun, Roxton

Placenames

Curraghkeel 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.