Curraheen

71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraheen, from 88 m² to 244,460 m² (24.45 ha, 60.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Curraheen 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.

• 20 Nov 2025Conditional

  the alterations & extensions to an existing house with all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561191

• 16 Sept 2021Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment and disposal system, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 211378

• 7 Sept 2021N/a

  to construct a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment and disposal system, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211334

• 26 Aug 2021N/a

  construct a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment and disposal system, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211270

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 Curraheen.

Recorded monuments

• TN028-098 Burial ground
  Description

  On a break of slope which drops off to the W, in undulating hilly terrain, overlooking a valley to the E with land rising beyond, in pasture. There are good views to the N and N, but limited to the E by peaks S and SW of Devilsbit Mountain and limited S and W by rising ground and by hills, including Knockanora, beyond. The enclosure is known locally as a burial ground. A sub-rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 18m N-S; 45m E-W), defined by a low earthen bank (ext. H 0.46m; int. H 0.22m; Wth at crest 2.2m; overall Wth 3.4m) along the N and E sides, which has been reduced to gradual scarp (H 0.52m; Wth 2.5m) towards the W end. A heap of deposited slate stone, partially overgrown by nettles and brambles, obscures the S edge where the enclosure meets the boreen. The SW-W edge is defined by a scarp (H 1.26-1.3m) which continues to drop with the natural break in slope. A boreen runs roughly E-W along the S side of the enclosure and may have partially truncated it. The enclosure is largely grass covered, though this has been eroded by cattle at the W end, exposing the very stony composition of the scarp. Within the E portion of the enclosure there is a grass-covered cairn (TN028-100----) (H 0.83m; overall dims. 7m N-S x 9m E-W; Wth at crest c. 3m), with some stones protruding. At the E end of the cairn, below the crest, there is an upright rectangular slab (TN028-099----) which is decorated on the W face with a figure and on the E face and S side with scroll/spiral motifs. There is an ogham inscription on the upper NW angle. See attached photographs: TN028-098----_01 Google Earth satellite image (imagery date 20 June 2017) TN028-098----_02 Google Earth satellite image (imagery date 20 January 2020) TN028-098----_03 General view from NE TN028-098----_04 General view from NW TN028-098----_05 Interior from E Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 February 2023

• TN028-099 Stone sculpture
  Description

  Positioned upright within a cairn (TN028-100----) within the E portion of an enclosure known locally as a burial ground (TN028-098----). There are good views to the N and N, but limited to the E by peaks S and SW of Devilsbit Mountain and limited S and W by rising ground and by hills, including Knockanora, beyond. At the E end of a grass-covered cairn (H 0.83m; overall dims. 7m N-S x 9m E-W; Wth at crest c. 3m), below the crest, there is a roughly rectangular slab (H 0.59m above ground; max. Wth 0.217-0.235m; T 0.045-0.09m), rounded on the upper SW angle, which is decorated on the W face with a figure in low relief, on the lower E face and upper S side with incised spiral motifs and on the upper NW angle and on the surface of the upper portion of the E face there is an ogham inscription. The figure (H 0.5m; Wth 0.22m), with arms outstretched, appears to represent the crucified Christ. He has a large oval bald head with an incised crown of thorns, large almond-shaped eyes defined by eyebrows, a long nose which swells out at the end, curving lines on either side define the checks and a large closed mouth, with well-defined curving lips. He is wearing a torc around his neck and is dressed in a long garment with a seam around the neck and horizontal band separating the upper portion of the garment from the skirt. The upper portion is decorated with vertical lines from neck to waist, with horizontal lines for the sleeves. There is no clear indication of hands, the sleeves appearing to terminate at the edge of the slab, though the lines on the sleeves could be interpreted as being very stylised fingers. The skirt is decorated in an irregular checker board pattern consisting of ten vertical rows subdivided into small rectangles by irregular horizontal lines. The two southernmost rows have smaller subdivisions. There is a rather crude horizontal band along the bottom of the skirt. Beneath the skirt are the lower portion of the legs with feet splayed outward, these are small in proportion to the body and are simplistically carved. Along the upper NW angle of the slab there is an ogham inscription (total L 0.133m), adjacent to the carved head. It consists, from bottom to top, of a single line which continues on both faces, a gap followed by four horizontal lines only on the N face, a gap followed by two horizontal lines which continue on both faces and a gap followed by five horizontal lines which continue on both the N and W face. The inscription reads as ACOI if read, as per the convention, from bottom to top, however, the inscription makes more sense if read from top to bottom, which gives IOSA, the Irish for Jesus. This suggests that the ogham is modern as the carver has a knowledge of ogham script while is unfamiliar with the medieval conventions of reading order. The ogham appears to be providing a title for the accompanying carving of Christ. The upper portion of the E face of the slab is thinner where the outer surface has broken off cleanly along an irregular diagonal line running downward from N to S. The relatively flat upper surface that remains is incised with at least two faint horizontal stem-lines, with a third shorter one below, with vertical and diagonal lines forming more ogham script. This inscription is obscured by lichen. The lower portion of the E face of the slab is decorated with an incised double spiral pattern. The upper portion of the S side of the slab is decorated with another spiral pattern, different to that on the E face, with a smaller upper spiral and a larger lower spiral, which appears to be transected by a diagonal band, beneath which a portion of the spiral is incised in a series of approximately thirty closely spaced curving lines, partially obscured by lichen. The style of the carving, the unconventional ogham inscription and the random nature of the spiral patterns all suggest that this is a modern interpretation of an early medieval slab, possibly dating to the Celtic Revival in the 19th century, but could also date to the 20th century. See attached photographs: TN028-099----_01 W face TN028-099----_02 E face TN028-099----_03 upper S side Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 February 2023

• TN028-100 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  On a break of slope which drops off to the W, in undulating hilly terrain, overlooking a valley to the E with land rising beyond, in pasture. There are good views to the N and N, but limited to the E by peaks S and SW of Devilsbit Mountain and limited S and W by rising ground and by hills, including Knockanora, beyond. Within the E portion of a burial ground (TN028-098----) there is a grass-covered cairn (H 0.83m; overall dims. 7m N-S x 9m E-W; Wth at crest c. 3m), with some stones protruding. At the E end of the, below the crest, there is an upright rectangular slab (TN028-099----) which is decorated on the W face with figure, on the E face and S side with scroll/spiral motifs and has an ogham inscription on the upper NW angle. See attached photographs: TN028-100----_01 Grass-covered cairn in E portion of enclosure from W TN028-100----_02 Grass-covered cairn in E portion of enclosure from N TN028-100----_03 Grass-covered cairn in E portion of enclosure from E TN028-100----_04 General view of cairn within burial ground from E Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 February 2023

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curraheen.

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 Curraheen, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Curraheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Curraheen · An Curraichín

Area

1,350,485 m² (135.05 ha, 333.71 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnameadle, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Upper

Electoral division

Aghnameadle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

350 people lived in 102 households in the Aghnameadle electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glenaguile, Gortagarry, Killoskehan, Knockgarve

Placenames

Curraheen 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.