Ballycurragh

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycurragh, from 215 m² to 195,371 m² (19.54 ha, 48.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Ballycurragh 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 Ballycurragh 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 Ballycurragh.

Recorded monuments

• OF039-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Formerly situated in poorly drained just E of the Fuarawn river, with earthwork (OF039-024----) 140m to the E. No surface remains visible, site was levelled in 1978 (Cunningham 1978, 127). Cunningham (1987, 126-7) described this levelled monument as a raised circular-shaped earthwork (H 5m; top diam. 40m) enclosed at its base by a fosse. Depicted as a circular earthwork or platform on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. On the revised 25-inch OS map the monument is shown as a circular enclosure, possibly a ringfort [raised rath type], consisting of a raised interior enclosed by an earthen bank reduced to a scarp from N to E and an external fosse. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 30 December 2011

• OF039-034 Earthwork
  Description

  No surface remains of monument that was levelled in 1978 (Cunningham 1987, 127). The monument was described by Cunningham as a raised sub-rectangular shaped earthwork or platform (H 2m; 34m E-W; 27m N-S). Depicted on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch maps as a circular earthwork or platform which was located 140m E of a possible ringfort (OF039-033----). The proximity of the site to both Glebe Rectory and Ballycurragh House, along with the presence of trees planted around the perimeter of the monument suggests that this earthwork may have been a tree-ring of 18th/19th century date. Alternatively this earthwork may have been an earlier monument that was re-used as a landscape feature in the 18th/19th century. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 23 May 2011

• OF039-035 Crannog
  Description

  Situated within the floodplain of the Fuarawn river which lies to the W of site. Rectangular-shaped platform earthwork (ext. dims E-W 15.60m x 34m N-S) with no evidence of an enclosing bank or fosse and no entrance feature. The summit of the mound (dims. 24m x 8m) is quite level. It is not clear if this earthwork may have been the site of a crannog described in 1979 as, 'in the townland of Ballycurragh; all that remains now is an oval platform of clay in the bog' (Feehan 1979, 94). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 30 December 2011

• OF039-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low ridge in undulating countryside. Poorly preserved bivallate ringfort which now survives as a circular area (diam 50m) defined by two poorly preserved earthen banks visible from S to W only with intervening fosse (Wth 13m). A field wall intersects S side of site destroying the enclosing banks. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF039-053 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On a slight terrace on the W side of a ridge in undulating countryside. Roughly circular mound (H 1.5m; diam. 7m E-W; diam. 5.5m N-S ) enclosed by a wide fosse (Wth 2m) which is barely discernible with external bank (Wth 1m; ext. H 0.5m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Teach Russell, worker's house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  One of a pair of three-bay two-storey former worker's houses, built c.1820. Set back from road. Now in use as a private dwelling. Half-hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles with rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Random coursed walls with traces of render. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows and sandstone sills. Square-headed door opening with timber battened half door. Stone outbuilding to rear site with corrugated-iron roof. Dry stone wall to front site with wrought-iron pedestrian gate.

• Teach Colleen, worker's house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  One of a pair of three-bay two-storey former worker's houses, built c.1820. Now in use as a private dwelling. Set back from road. Half-hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles with rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows and concrete sills. Square-headed door opening with timber battened half door. Stone outbuilding to rear site with corrugated-iron roof. Dry stone wall to front site with wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Located beside Ballycurragh Woods. Single-arch bridge adjacent to cottage.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Ballycurragh.

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

Name

Ballycurragh · Baile Mhic Mhurchú

Area

1,626,442 m² (162.64 ha, 401.9 acres)

Civil parish

Aghancon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Aghancon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aghancon electoral division: 371 people in 144 households; 89% of households own their home; 17% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghancon, Brownhills, Glebe, Leap, Lissanierin, Roscomroe

Placenames

Ballycurragh 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.