Curraveha or Birchhall

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraveha or Birchhall, from 89 m² to 77,098 m² (7.71 ha, 19.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Curraveha or Birchhall 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.

• 28 May 2026N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system & garage, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 26122

• 28 May 2026N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system & garage, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 26123

• 18 Oct 2024Conditional

  for an extension and alterations to existing dwelling house, for a garage/shed, for a new residential vehicular access and to replace existing septic tank with a new wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 52.5 sqm (g), 129 sqm (Ext)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461377

• 30 Jun 2022Conditional

  for the construction of detached dwelling house, domestic garage and all associated site services. Gross floor area of proposed works: 205.65sqm (dwelling house) and 25sqm (domestic garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260668

• 21 Sept 2020Conditional

  to install roof windows to existing dwelling house with all associated works and ancillary services.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201345

• 29 Jan 2020Conditional

  of the existing dwelling house and garage/shed as constructed on revised site boundaries and permission to upgrade the wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 150.35 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2096

• 29 Dec 2017Conditional

  for dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 217.6sqm, Garage 59.5sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171891

• 19 Apr 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house with septic tank, wastewater treatment plant and garage. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 188 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17531

• 17 Feb 2017Conditional

  for (1) retention of the existing dwelling house as constructed (2) removal of lifetime enurement clause (3) retention of site boundaries and all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of works to be retained: 350sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17195

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 Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA055-041 Dovecote
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Aviary/dovecote/pigeon house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding hexagonal-plan two-stage dovecote, built c.1800. Rendered rubble stone walls with rubble stone corbels to east, north-east and south-west faces, rubble stone and red-brick cornice and parapets. Square-headed aperture for birds to north elevation. Square-headed door opening to south-east face with rendered rubble stone voussoirs, replacement timber lintel and replacement battened timber door. Interior has concrete floor and exposed rubble stone walls with ten tiers of three nesting boxes to faces of interior.

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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Curraveha or Birchhall.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_357 (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 Curraveha or Birchhall with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Curraveha or Birchhall · Cora Bheithe

Area

475,543 m² (47.55 ha, 117.51 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Oughterard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,819 people lived in 1,042 households in the Oughterard electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnasillagh, Knockbaun, Porridgetown East, Porridgetown West

Placenames

Curraveha or Birchhall 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.