Curraghmore

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghmore, from 15 m² to 432,256 m² (43.23 ha, 106.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Curraghmore 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.

• 13 Nov 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and garage

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241399

• 31 Jul 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and garage

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20240913

• 27 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention of changes to a dwelling house to include

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240331

• 7 Jul 2021Granted (unconditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE & GARAGE

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20160484

• 10 Nov 2016Granted (unconditional)

  RENOVATION OF AN EXISTING DERELICT MILL TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION, THE ERECTION O

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20110172

• 12 Oct 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161127

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 Curraghmore.

Recorded monuments

• WX045-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a broad, low, N-S ridge. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (int. diam. c. 35m) is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP, ASZ 49). Slight traces of a scarp (C 32m; H 0.4m) are visible SE-SW in pasture The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 23 July 2013

• WX045-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the summit of a broad hill. The cropmark of the W half of a large bivallate enclosure (int. diam. c. 55m; ext. diam. c. 85m) is visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP, AOX 42 5). The inner fosse feature is more substantial than the outer. It is not visible at ground level in pasture, and the outer fosse extends into Tintern at the S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 22 July 2013

• WX045-094 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.AN.37) shows a cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam.c. 35m) defined by a fosse. Rath (WX045-095----) is located c. 100m to the south. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 9 March, 2010 Amended: 1 May, 2014

• WX045-095 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.AN.35) shows a cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by two concentric fosses (ext. diam. c. 45m). A second rath (WX045-094----) is located c. 100m to the N and the complex enclosure (WX045-086----) is c. 150m to the WSW. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 03 March, 2010. Amended: 1 May, 2014

Architectural heritage

• New Bridge, bridge, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over stream, built 1815. Creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with hammered rubble stone soldier course coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with granite ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Tintern Stream with unkempt banks to stream.

• Farm house, 1905–1922 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1922, on a rectangular plan. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having corbelled stepped chamfered capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Hipped segmental-headed central door opening with timber mullions on concrete step threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights below overlight. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having chamfered capping supporting arrow head-detailed looped wrought iron gate.

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 Curraghmore, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Curraghmore, Saltmills8 sales

Name

Curraghmore · An Chorr Mhór

Area

1,678,830 m² (167.88 ha, 414.85 acres)

Civil parish

Tintern, and its townlands

Barony

Shelburne

Electoral division

Tintern, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,744 people lived in 636 households in the Tintern electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvaroge, Coolroe, Garrycullen, Kinnagh, Milltown, Tintern

Placenames

Curraghmore 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.