Curragh

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curragh, from 15 m² to 234,122 m² (23.41 ha, 57.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 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.

• 15 Jul 2025Conditional

  of a house and garage on revised site boundaries from those originally granted in 1976, Pl Ref 21703. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 114 (H), 23.66 sqm(G)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560955

• 1 May 2025Conditional

  of (a) two storey extension and (b) a single storey extension to the rear of an existing two storey detached dwelling. Gross space of work to be retained: 48.84 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2594

• 22 Mar 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house; a detached garage; new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter; new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 260.20 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360276

• 2 Jun 2022Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house; a detached garage; new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter; new vehicular entrance; and all associated site development works.

  Outline permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260573

• 12 Oct 2017Conditional

  of domestic shed and lean-to fuel/store shed. Gross floor space of work to be retained 89.70sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171482

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.

Recorded monuments

• GA087-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as two conjoined ringforts aligned E-W. The E rath (GA087-058----) was circular in plan (D c. 40m), while W rath (GA087-058001-) was roughly D-shaped (NW-SE c. 40m). All that survives is an oval area (E-W 37m, N-S 33m) defined by a vegetation band. According to local information, the area was recently reclaimed. 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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 8 December 2016

• GA087-058001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as two conjoined ringforts aligned E-W. The E rath (GA087-058----) was circular in plan (D c. 40m), while W rath (GA087-058001-) was roughly D-shaped (NW-SE c. 40m). All that survives is an oval area (E-W 37m, N-S 33m) defined by a vegetation band. According to local information, the area was recently reclaimed. 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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 8 December 2016

• GA087-059 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a hummock in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 34m, E-W 29m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is present at S and elsewhere a scarp, overlain from SSW to W by a field boundary, forms the enclosing element. The fosse survives from NE through E to S. A gap (Wth 4m) at SE may be original. Quarrying has encroached upon the enclosing elements from S to SW. 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

• GA087-060 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D 32m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A road cuts the monument at NE and NW and no visible surface trace survives to N of it. A field boundary which overlies the inner bank from SE to S has badly disturbed the enclosing elements. Gap (Wth 3m) at SE may be original. A series of grassed-over boulders within the interior may indicate an internal division. 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 Curragh.

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, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1279 (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 Curragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Curragh · An Currach

Area

1,099,547 m² (109.95 ha, 271.7 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcloony, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Ballinasloe Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

555 people lived in 210 households in the Ballinasloe Rural electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnacragh, Caher, Coololla, Grange, Knockroe, Loughbown, Urraghry

Placenames

Curragh 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.