Curraghmore

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghmore, from 1,167 m² to 252,521 m² (25.25 ha, 62.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 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.

• 24 Jun 2025Conditional

  for the erection of a single storey extension to an existing dwelling, which will include the upgrading of exisitng sewerage drains along with minor ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2525

• 21 Aug 2018Conditional

  for the demolition of the existing uninhabited and derelict two storey dwelling house and the construction of a new detached four bedroom bungalow, waste water treatment plant, percolation area, and ancillary site development works. The site is accessed via a lane from the pubic road and there are no alterations to be carried out to the existing vehicular entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18347

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

• CV039-033 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on all OS eds. Rectangular well (dims. 2m x 1m) enclosed by a stone wall. Stone steps lead down to the well from the adjacent roadway at S. Patterns are held here annually on March 17th (local information). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

• Curraghmore Bridge, bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span segmental-arched sandstone road bridge, built c.1800, over watercourse, with overgrown mill pond to west. Gently sloping deck with random rubble stone parapets, spandrels, and wing walls having Scotch coping. Arched opening formed of punched ashlar voussoirs over dressed corner blocks. Rubble stone soffit and abutments. Walls overgrown with vegetation.

• Lurgan Flax Mill, mill (water), 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey flax mill, built c.1850, now disused. Replacement corrugated roof, c.2000, with collapsed remains of roof timbers and slate to interior. Coursed random rubble stone walls with red-brick course at eaves level. Windowless openings to first floor of southern, western and eastern elevations, to ground floor of southern elevation, door opening to eastern gable, pair of blocked openings to northern elevation. Door opening to first floor party wall, battered western wall containing remains of iron mill wheel.

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 moderately high, 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 Curraghmore.

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 Curraghmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Curraghmore

Area

858,146 m² (85.81 ha, 212.05 acres)

Civil parish

Lurgan, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Lurgan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lurgan electoral division: 624 people in 211 households; 80% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cleggan, Correagh Glebe, Curraghkeel, Lisnafana, Lurgan

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.