Curragh

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curragh, from 1,139 m² to 372,440 m² (37.24 ha, 92.03 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 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.

• 9 Nov 2023Conditional

  the extension to the side or East of the existing house and all associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2360175

• 20 Nov 2020Conditional

  AMENDMENT OF PREVIOUS PERMISSION GRANTED UNDER REG. REF: 19/248 AND ABP-306693-20, AS FOLLOWS: 1. REDUCTION IN SIZE OF THE PERMITTED EXTENSION, 2. REPLACEMENT OF THE GLAZED ROOF BETWEEN THE HOUSE AND PERMITTED EXTENSION WITH A FLAT ROOF WITH ROOFLIGHTS, 3. MINOR ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS OF THE PERMITTED EXTENSION, 4. NEW ROOFLIGHT TO EXISTING DWELLING, 5. ALTERATIONS TO THE PROPOSED LAYOUT, AND ALL OTHER ANCILLARY WORKS. THE PROPOSALS ARE WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20575

• 3 Nov 2020N/a

  AMMENDMENT OF PREVIOUS PERMISSION GRANTED UNDER REG. REF: 19/248 AND ABP-306693-20, AS FOLLOWS: 1. REDUCTION IN SIZE OF PERMITTED EXTENSION, 2. REPLACEMENT OF THE GLAZED ROOF BETWEEN THE HOUSE AND PERMITTED EXTENSION WITH A FLAT ROOF WITH ROOFLIGHTS, 3. MINOR ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS OF THE PERMITTED EXTENSION, 4. NEW ROOFLIGHT TO EXISTING DWELLING, 5. ALTERATIONS TO THE PROPOSED LAYOUT, AND ALL OTHER ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20536

• 2 Dec 2019Conditional

  (A) EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED, (B) PERMISSION TO CONVERT EXISTING ATTIC SPACE OF HOUSE INTO LIVABLE ACCOMMODATION TO INCLUDE ROOF LIGHTS, (C) PERMISSION TO INSTALL SOLAR PANELS TO THE HOUSE FRONT ELEVATION PITCHED ROOF, (D) PERMISSION FOR GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATE SITE WORKS

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 19572

• 26 Nov 2019N/a

  (A) EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED, (B) PERMISSION TO CONVERT EXISTING ATTIC SPACE OF HOUSE INTO LIVABLE ACCOMMODATION TO INCLUDE ROOF LIGHTS, (C) PERMISSION TO INSTALL SOLAR PANELS TO THE HOUSE FRONT ELEVATION PITCHED ROOF, (D) PERMISSION FOR GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATE SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 19559

• 30 May 2019Refused

  MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS TO THE EXISTING FORGE AND OUTBUILDINGS, WHICH IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE, RENOVATION AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING COTTAGE AND SHED TO INCLUDE TWO STOREY RESIDENTIAL EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING COTTAGE, WHICH IS WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE LISTED IN OFFALY CDP 2014 - 2020 RPS REF 35-13 AND NIAH REF 14814015, A NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19248

• 15 May 2019N/a

  RENOVATIONS, ALTERATIONS, DEMOLITIONS AND ADDITIONS TO EXISTING STRUCTURES TO INCLUDE A TWO STOREY RESIDENTIAL EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING STRUCTURES, A NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES IN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE LISTED IN OFFALY CDP 2014 - 2020 RPS REF 35-13 AND NIAH REF 14814015

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19221

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curragh.

Architectural heritage

• The Forge, forge/smithy, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted single-bay single-storey former forge, built c.1870, with two-bay side elevation, outshot to east and return abutting outbuilding to rear. Fronts onto road within a farmyard. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and timber bargeboards. Random coursed limestone walls with tooled stone quoins. Casement windows with stone sills. Horseshoe-shaped opening to gable-front with ashlar voussoirs and timber battened double doors. Timber battened door to rear return. Random coursed stone outbuildings to site with pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs. Cast-iron pump to site. Yard bounded by rendered wall.

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 10 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Curragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Curragh · An Currach

Area

920,617 m² (92.06 ha, 227.49 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Geashill

Electoral division

Geashill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Geashill electoral division: 1,659 people in 562 households; 86% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Alderborough, Ballymooney, Derryweelan, Killellery, Lugmore

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.