Curragh

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curragh, from 100 m² to 139,346 m² (13.93 ha, 34.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Curragh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

• GA116-033 Enclosure
  Description

  On a ridge in undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure (c. 18m N-S; c. 13m E-W). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 July 2019

• GA116-034 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In undulating pastureland, c. 100m NE of a burial ground (GA116-035----). On inspection this well consisted of a large circular concrete pipe in the ground, around which there was a loose setting of stones. The well fed a small stream flowing to the NE and was being used for watering cattle. Apart from being named ‘Tobermacduagh’ in Gothic script on the 1838 and 1920 editions of the OS 6-inch map, there was no evidence to indicate that it was regarded as a holy well. Current aerial imagery (OSi Digitalglobe 2011-2013) indicates that this area was subsequently developed as a Golf Club. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 January 2023

• GA116-035 Burial ground
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in pastureland. On inspection in July 1983 this irregularly shaped burial ground (25m N-S; 20m E-W) was defined by a stone wall with an entrance at SE. A number of headstones and some small randomly spaced slabs were visible in the undergrowth. There was a bullaun stone (GA116-035001-) beside the entrance, on the N side, and a holy well (GA116-034----) c. 100m to the NE. Current OSi aerial imagery indicates that the burial ground has been subsumed into a larger graveyard. (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 514) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 February 2020

• GA116-035001 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Within a burial ground (GA116-035----). This subrectangular bullaun stone (L 0.62m; Wth 0.57m; H 0.46m) has one basin (diam. 27m; D 0.25m). A section of the boulder is broken away at W. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 4 February 2020 The following image has been uploaded: GA116-035001-_02.jpg

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

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

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

660,240 m² (66.02 ha, 163.15 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Drumkeary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

625 people lived in 217 households in the Drumkeary electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowcrin, Derrygarriff, Lisheeny, Liss, Parkagarraun, Tomany Beg, Tomany More, Tonroe

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.