Curraghcreen

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghcreen, from 482 m² to 187,717 m² (18.77 ha, 46.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Curraghcreen 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.

• 23 Oct 2025Conditional

  to construct a serviced dwelling house, a garage and an effluent treatment system. Permission is also sought to relocate relevant front boundaries walls so that the required site lines can be obtained. Please note an Appropriate Assessment Screening and Natura Impact Statement report will be lodged as part of the application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561556

• 25 May 2023Conditional

  to construct the dwelling house, garage, and the treatment plant system granted under planning permission 21/1197 on a revised site. Permission also to relocate relevant front boundaries walls so that the required sightlines can be achieved. Please note an Appropriate Assessment Screening and Natura Impact Statement report will be lodge as part of the application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360559

• 27 Apr 2023N/a

  to construct the serviced dwelling house, garage and effluent treatment system granted under planning permission 21/1197 on a revised site. Permission also to relocate relevant front boundaries walls so that the required sight lines ca be obtained. An Appropriate Assessment Screening and Natura Impact Statement report will be lodged as part of the application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23170

• 1 Jul 2021Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced dwelling house, garage and effluent system and to relocate relevant front boundaries walls so that the required sight lines can be obtained. Gross floor space of proposed works:191sqm (House) & 60sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211197

• 11 Mar 2021N/a

  to change house the type from that granted under planning permission 14/1117 (See also 20/211) on a revised site. Gross floor space of proposed works: 135 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21347

• 20 Feb 2020Unconditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works (gross floor space house 152sqm; garage 60sqm) Previous Planning Ref 14/1117

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20211

• 5 Apr 2019N/a

  of a relocated wastewater treatment system and polishing filter (previous planning permission reference number 15/777)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 19493

• 14 Feb 2019N/a

  permission of a relocated wastewater treatment system and polishing filter (previous planning permission reference number 15/777)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 19211

• 27 Nov 2018Conditional

  to construct extension to existing house including all ancillary site development works on lands. Gross floor space of proposed works: 27.25 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181693

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Special Area of Conservation: Levally Lough SAC 000295
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Levally Lough 000295

Recorded monuments

• GA030-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NW-facing slope in grassland overlooking Levally Lough to E. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 45m). A field wall and road encircled the monument from W to NE. No visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA030-049 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hill summit in undulating grassland overlooking bogland to S. Well-preserved subcircular rath (N-S 44m, E-W 38.5) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The enclosing elements do not survive at N. Well-defined entrance (Wth 4.5m) at S. A field wall cuts the monument at NE and NW. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Curraghcreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Curraghcreen · An Currach Críon

Area

1,428,197 m² (142.82 ha, 352.92 acres)

Civil parish

Tuam, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Levally, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Levally electoral division: 437 people in 148 households; 96% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghalode, Cappadavock, Cloonconra, Corralea, Meelick East, Polldorragha, Ryehill

Placenames

Curraghcreen 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.