Curragh More

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curragh More, from 1,274 m² to 134,437 m² (13.44 ha, 33.22 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 Curragh More 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.

• 19 Aug 2026N/a

  of existing farm entrance and access road and for full planning permission to construct a slatted cattle & handling area

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2661411

• 11 Jun 2026Conditional

  to construct domestic dwelling house along with domestic garage, new treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660946

• 31 Aug 2021Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/fuel shed to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 302.81 sqm (house) & b53.94 sqm (garage/shed)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211582

• 14 Jul 2020Conditional

  and completion of dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant and percolation area previously granted under reference number 07/2970 and for permission to construct a domestic garage / fuel store and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 59.5 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20939

• 28 Jun 2018Conditional

  for the development of this site, the existing Cloon to Lanesboro 110 KV Overhead line which is approximately 65 Kilometres long. Approximately 37km of the existing circuit is located within the functional area of Galway county Council with approximately 27km located in County Roscommon and approximately 120 metres located in Co. Longford, The furbishment of the existing circuit within County Galway will be undertaken between structure EM1 at Cloon Substation, south of Tuam, and structure AM220, south-east of Creggs village near the administrative border between counties Galway and Roscommon. The development will consist of the refurbishment of the Cloon- Lanesboro 110 KV Overhead line which will primarily include: replacement of a large proportion of existing structures, the breaking out and reconstruction of the concrete foundation and shear blocks at the majority of end/angle mast structures, painting of mast structures, replacement of insulators, crossarms, stays and/or fittings on existing structures; and the fitting of bird flight diverters and stay guards. No additional structures are proposed along the existing circuit. Any replacement structures will be constructed at, or immediately adjacent to the existing structures they will replace, and will be replaced, and will be of a generally similar height and appearance. Associated site development works to gain access to the existing structures include clearance of vegetation, disassembly and reassembly of stone walls and gate posts and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing. The proposed development includes all other associated and ancillary site development works required for the refurbishment of the existing circuit, including the installation of temporary silt traps, silt fences, bog mats and clear span bridges. No additional structures and no alteration to the nature, extent, alignment, character or voltage of the existing structure. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) forms part of this application.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18896

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 More.

Recorded monuments

• GA031-023 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In gently undulating pastureland, close to the td. boundary . A roughly square unenclosed area (N-S 11.9m, E-W 10.9m), in fair condition, within which are a number of uninscribed limestone grave-markers, both upright and recumbent, mainly aligned N-S and set c. 0.7m apart.(O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 229; Melvin c. 1971, 11) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA032-020 Quarry
  Description

  On a slight rise in pastureland. The minor name 'Sheeaun' is printed on the OS 6-inch maps, though not in antiquarian typeface. It is derived from the Irish ‘Sidheán’ meaning a fairy hill (Joyce 1996, 106) and in this case it appears to be the name given to a hillock that was subsequently quarried into for gravel, particularly at NE. Named ‘Gravel Pit’ on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16). The quarrying is probably of 19th/20th century date. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 2 October 2014

Architectural heritage

• The Old School House, school, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding limestone-built national school, dated 1860, having projecting three-bay entrance to two-pile block with four-bay side elevations and blank front elevation. Hipped slate roof to main part and gabled roof with cut-stone copings to entrance, with tall ashlar chimneystacks to front part and rear having string courses and stepped copings. Ashlar limestone walls. Square-headed windows having tooled voussoirs, cut-stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed replacement timber door with tooled voussoirs and flanked by small windows and having inscribed limestone plaque reading 'Curraghmore Female School Patron Richard D'Arcy 1880'. Yard to front bounded by rubble stone wall having course tooled stone piers with caps and wrought-iron pedestrian gate.

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 More, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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 More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Curragh More · An Currach Mór

Area

1,023,749 m² (102.37 ha, 252.97 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkerrin, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Curraghmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

198 people lived in 66 households in the Curraghmore electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappagh, Curragh Beg, Derrooghs, Derrynabrin, Newcastle, Newforest, Rockfield East

Placenames

Curragh More 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.