Currabaha

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Currabaha, from 41 m² to 313,022 m² (31.3 ha, 77.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Currabaha 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.

• 22 Jun 2026Conditional

  for the indefinite retention of a side elevation entrance porch

  Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2660457

• 10 Dec 2025Conditional

  a 2 storey, metal profile/timber clad finished storage shed and workshop at the side of the existing dwelling.

  Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2560889

• 1 May 2024Conditional

  for (1) the as constructed site boundaries, (2) the as constructed location of the house, (3) changes to the original house plans including; additional floor area to the sunroom, a balcony and an extension to the northwestern side of the original house This is a change from the original planning permission P.D. 00/394.

  Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2460225

• 17 Apr 2024N/a

  of a 2 storey, metal profile/timber clad finished storage shed and workshop at the side of the existing dwelling.

  Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2460192

• 19 Mar 2024N/a

  of a 2 storey, metal profile/timber clad finished storage shed and workshop at the side of the existing dwelling.

  Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2460128

• 5 Aug 2021Conditional

  RETENTION permission for an existing bathroom attached to the main dwelling and PERMISSION for the addition of an en-suite bathroom and laundry room to the main dwelling at

  Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 21759

• 16 Jun 2021Conditional

  A timber cladded hut to house a vending machine with access roadway, set down area and new roadside entrance

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 21561

• 13 Mar 2019Conditional

  a single-storey extension (Granny Flat) to the side (east) elevation including conversion of garage into habitable space, single storey extension to the rear (south elevation), along with ancillary site works at existing dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 19167

• 28 Feb 2019N/a

  for a single storey extension (Granny Flat) to the side (east) elevation including conversion of garage into habitable space, single storey extension to the rear (south) elevation, along with ancillary site works at existing dwelling

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 19128

• 22 Jan 2018Conditional

  a single-storey side extension to existing dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 1835

• 14 Aug 2017Conditional

  the as constructed location of the dwelling house and garage along with the as constructed boundaries and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 17586

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 Currabaha.

Recorded monuments

• WA023-023 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) incorporating a field bank E-S on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in pasture at the crest of a N-facing slope, it is not visible at ground level. Rath (WA023-025----) is c. 170m to the SSE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 27-08-2009

• WA023-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the S end of the summit of a NNW-SSE ridge. Overgrown oval area (dims. c. 35m N-S; 22.5m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank, best preserved at W and N (at W: Wth 3.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.4m), with a slight outer fosse (Wth c. 2m; D 0.1m) which may be a silted-up field drain S-N. The entrance (Wth 2.8m) is at E. The bank has been removed at SE (L 12m) to a spoil heap (dims. 9m x 5.5m; H 0.5-1.2m) on the perimeter at S. Rath (WA023-025----) is c. 290m to the NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 21st April, 2011. Compiled by: Michael Moore.

• WA023-025 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated towards the top of a N and NE-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 30m NW-SE) covered in dense scrub and defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.8-1m; ext. H 0.8-1.3m) with internal stone-facing. An outer fosse (Wth of top 5.7m; Wth of base 2.2m; D 0.5m) survives NW-N only. The bank is curtailed by a NW-SE road wall at NE, and it is separated by field bank SE-NW from the field to the W. There is no visible entrance. Rath (WA023-024----) is at the top of the hill c. 290m to the SW and earthwork site (WA023-023----) is c. 170m to the NNW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 21st April, 2011. Compiled by: Michael Moore.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Currabaha, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Currabaha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Currabaha · Corrbheithigh

Area

1,858,730 m² (185.87 ha, 459.3 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgobnet, and its townlands

Barony

Decies Without Drum

Electoral division

Colligan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

722 people lived in 258 households in the Colligan electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyconnery Lower, Ballyconnery Upper, Ballyknock Upper, Colligan Beg, Coolnasmear Lower, Greenane, Kilgobnet, Knockroe

Placenames

Currabaha 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.