Curraun

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraun, from 330 m² to 143,571 m² (14.36 ha, 35.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 44 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 Curraun 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.

• 27 Jan 2026Conditional

  Planning permission to construct a single storey extension, to an existing dwelling at Curraun, Mohill, County Leitrim N41 V4P6.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2660024

• 13 Feb 2025Conditional

  two dormer windows in the roof of an existing house.

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2560027

• 22 Apr 2022Conditional

  retain existing domestic garage to include all ancillary works in place that completed the development

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2254

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 Curraun.

Recorded monuments

• LE033-001 Crannog
  Description

  Located towards the N end of Curraun Lough, a small oval lake (max. dims c. 250m NW-SE; c. 100m NE-SW) that is represented on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map as being larger (max. dims c. 325m NW-SE; c. 150m NE-SW). The lake is on a N-S canalised stream, and the crannog is now joined to the shore at N. This is an overgrown, circular, flat-topped island (diam. 25m E-W; H 0.35m) with no visible surface evidence of artificial construction. Crannog (LE033-002----) is c. 30m to the SE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended; 6 December 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Curraun, Mohill5 sales

Name

Curraun · An Corrán

Area

1,917,558 m² (191.76 ha, 473.84 acres)

Civil parish

Mohill, and its townlands

Barony

Mohill

Electoral division

Mohill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mohill electoral division: 1,317 people in 548 households; 62% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghakilfaughna, Carrick, Cornagresha South, Corracaboon, Drumbeighra, Drumcroy, Drumgowla, Drumkeilvy, Lisomadaun, Rosharry, Shivdilla

Placenames

Curraun 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.