Currinah

92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Currinah, from 22 m² to 179,221 m² (17.92 ha, 44.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Currinah 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 Sept 2025Conditional

  Permission for the erection of a dwelling house, with an on-site packaged treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560459

• 10 Sept 2025N/a

  The development will consist of the construction of a new dwelling house, with an on-site packaged treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560431

• 20 Aug 2025N/a

  Permission for the erection of a new dwelling house, with an on-site packaged treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated ancillary site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560401

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 Currinah.

Recorded monuments

• RO008C006001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a gentle N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 23.4m E-W; 23m N-S) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 3.1-3.7m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.5-0.7m) with an arc of outer facing stones (C 5m) visible at S. There is no visible entrance, but souterrain (RO008C-006002-) is inside the perimeter at NW. A drystone wall (Wth 0.5-0.6m; H 0.8-1.1m) is built on the perimeter. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C006002 Souterrain
  Description

  Inside the perimeter of cashel (RO008C006001-) at NW. A depression (L 5m; Wth 1m; D 0.6-1m) aligned NE-SW and probably running under the cashel wall at the SW end has one lintel in place and the NW side-wall is partly visible. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C007 Earthwork
  Description

  Marked faintly as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map (MA 64), and situated towards the bottom of an E-facing slope. It is not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C034 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing, and excavated (E3355) as Currinah IV during 2006 as part of the N5 Charlestown by-pass road. Situated in a low-lying basin. An oval mound of burnt stone (dims. 8.4m E-W; 3.8m N-S; T 0.2-0.3m) overlay a stone and wood-lined trough (ext. dims. 1.7m N-S; 0.7-0.9m E-W; D 0.2m) with a base of brushwood and split roundwood. It produced C14 dates between 1254-1045 Cal. BC. (Kerrigan 2009a; Kerrigan and Gillespie 2010a, 133-7) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C035001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing, and excavated (E3356) as a part of Currinah I during 2006 as part of the N5 Charlestown by-pass. Situated in a basin at the base of a N-facing slope. An irregularly-shaped mound (dims 12m N-S; 9.45m E-W; T 0.2m) of fire-cracked stones overlay a stone-lined trough (dims 2m x 1.35m; D 0.3m) with rounded corners augmented with stakes. Worked flint and chert pieces were recovered, and charcoal from the trough produced C14 dates of 895-797 Cal. BC. Fulacht fia (RO008C035002-) is c. 35m to the ENE. (Kerrigan 2009b, Area I; Kerrigan and Gillespie 2010a, 126-9) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C035002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing and excavated (E3356) as Currinah II during 2006 as part of the N5 Charlestown by-pass. Situated in a basin at the base of a N-facing slope. An small mound of fire-cracked stones (dims 5.6m NE-SW; 4.2mm NW-SE; T 0.15m) overlay a stone-lined, irregularly-shaped trough (dims 3.25m x 1.9m; D 0.3m) with a stone platform on the W side. Charcoal from the trough produced C14 dates of 1367-1002 Cal. BC. Fulacht fia (RO008C035001-) is c. 35m to the WSW and pit (RO008C035003-) is c. 90m to the E in Gortanure townlnad. (Kerrigan 2009b, Area II; Kerrigan and Gillespie 2010a, 130-33) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C036001 Burnt mound
  Description

  Burnt mound: Identified in centre-line testing, and excavated (11E0231) as Currinah 5a in the preparatory work for the N5 Charlestown by-pass. Situated in a SE-NW valley with a small stream c. 50m to the N. A small deposit of broken and burnt stone (dims 4m x 3m; T 0.15m) sealed a peat deposit. Fulacht fia (RO008C-) is c. 30m to the SE. (Delaney 2011, 4) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 October, 2015

• RO008C036002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing, and excavated (11E0231) as Currinah 5b in the preparatory work for the N5 Charlestown by-pass. Situated in a SE-NW valley with a small stream c. 80m to the N. Excavation recorded a S-N palaeo-channel c. 5m E of the base of a small oval trough (dims 1.3m NW-SE; 1m NE-SW; D 0.15m) with some timbers at the bottom that was overlain by a larger straight-sided rectangular trough (dims 2.2m NW-SE; 1.2m NE-SW; D 0.63m) that still had some stones from its lining and floor. The upper trough was filled with broken and burnt stone that spread into a mound (dims 10m x 8m; max. T 0.4m) of two principal layers W of the trough and which sealed a single post-hole. A sample of oak from the lower trough produced a C14 date of 2026-1887 cal. BC while a sample of charcoal from the upper trough produced a C14 date of 1253-1027 cal. BC. Burnt mound (RO008C036001-) is c. 30m to the NW. (Delaney 2011c, 2-4) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 October, 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 Currinah, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Currinah with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Currinah · Corr an Fheá

Area

1,868,669 m² (186.87 ha, 461.76 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeagh, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Ballaghaderreen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,254 people lived in 1,218 households in the Ballaghaderreen electoral division. 58% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boghtaduff, Bohalas, Cashelcolaun, Gortanure, Hawksford

Placenames

Currinah 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.