Curraghmore

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghmore, from 47 m² to 313,390 m² (31.34 ha, 77.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Curraghmore 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.

• 29 Aug 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works, 243sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181226

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

• GA041-027 Country house
  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.

• GA041-028 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a small hillock in grassland overlooking Lough Corrib to W. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). 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

• GA041-028001 Children's burial ground
  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

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having flat-roofed windbreak to front, and flat-roofed extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with low rendered chimneystack and rendered copings to gables. Square-headed replacement uPVC windows with limestone sills. Whitewashed walls with painted strip at eaves. Square-headed replacment timber door within windbreak having round-headed exterior opening. Rendered and rubble limestone single-storey outbuildings to west.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having late twentieth-century flat-roofed extension to rear. Pitched reed thatched roof with raised scolloped ridge, thatch being brought lower over entrance to provide additional shelter. Low rendered chimneystack. Walls have a slight batter and front elevation is covered with applied water-weathered stones. Square-headed openings with painted block-and-start surrounds to front. Replacement timber windows, limestone sills, and glazed timber door. Single-storey outbuildings to east and west with rubble limestone walls and tiled roofs.

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 Curraghmore, about 1 in 10 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Curraghmore · An Currach Mór

Area

1,659,044 m² (165.9 ha, 409.96 acres)

Civil parish

Killursa, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Killursa, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,135 people lived in 397 households in the Killursa electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloononaghaun, Coarsepark or Parkgarve, Greenfield or Shanbally

Placenames

Curraghmore 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.