Curraghtemple
Curraghtemple is a townland in the civil parish of Youghalarra, barony of Owney and Arra, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Currach an Teampaill.
Parcel 580637
- Area
- 5,078 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 350 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Curraghtemple
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 49.2 ha
- 121 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 5,078 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghtemple, from 117 m² to 78,797 m² (7.88 ha, 19.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Curraghtemple 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Feb 2026Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling with a new garage, a new entrance, a new well and a secondary treatment plant system and soil polishing filter and all associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2660171
17 Aug 2024Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system & entrance with access off existing laneway along with all ancillary site works
Permission consequent, 2 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2460678
14 Aug 2024N/a
to construct a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system & entrance with access off existing laneway along with all ancillary site works
Permission consequent · Tipperary County Council, 2460668
12 Jul 2024Conditional
a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460566
27 Jun 2024N/a
a dwelling house, garage, wastewater system & entrance
Outline permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460517
24 Nov 2023Conditional
construction of a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and entrance with access off existing laneway along with all ancillary site works
Outline permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360936
2 Jun 2023Conditional
a single storey dwelling house, detached garage, wastewater treatment system, site entrance and all ancillary site works thereto
Permission, 2 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2360378
23 Apr 2021Conditional
and completion of partially completed dwelling house, site specific treatment unit to EPA guidelines 2009, entrance and all ancillary site works at commenced under planning file 12/510281
Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 21548
8 Apr 2021N/a
construction of dwelling house, waste water treatment system, entrance, driveway along with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 21456
12 Mar 2021N/a
construction of dwelling house, waste water treatment system, entrance, driveway along with all ancillary site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21314
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Curraghtemple.
Recorded monuments
- TN020-025 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on high ground in an upland area. A circular area (diam. 28m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.3m) visible from E through S to W, elsewhere reduced to a scarp, with no entrance feature or fosse visible. A nineteenth-century grove of trees is planted to the NW. Possibly a ringfort reused as a tree-ring in the nineteenth century. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN020-026 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Situated in a slight hollow on poorly drained marshy land. A square well (dims. 0.85m x 0.94m x 0.3m D) which was dry at the time of visit and covered by a round-arched stone canopy with a plaster relief of St Brigid on the SE wall and a small cubby-hole on the NE wall. Two small stone steps lead down to the dried up well which was dedicated to St Brigid. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN020-040 Enclosure
Description
Situated on an E-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area with enclosure site (TN020-041) and ringfort (TN020-042) to the S. Not indicated on the 1st ed. (1840) OS 6-inch map but hachured on the 1904 ed. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curraghtemple.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Curraghtemple, about 1 in 10 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 Curraghtemple.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Curraghtemple with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Curraghtemple · Currach an Teampaill
- Area
- 491,553 m² (49.16 ha, 121.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Youghalarra, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Electoral division
- Youghalarra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,001 people lived in 346 households in the Youghalarra electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinagore, Bawnakey, Boolaroe, Kilcolman, Knockannamohilly, Loughaun, Toor
- Placenames
- Curraghtemple 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.