Curraghboy

108 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghboy, from 52 m² to 281,924 m² (28.19 ha, 69.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Curraghboy 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.

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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 Curraghboy.

Recorded monuments

• RO048-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In a low-lying position in an undulating landscape. Subcircular domed and grass-covered area (dims 38.7m WNW-ESE; 34m NNE-SSW) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.5-4.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.35-0.55m) with no evidence of a fosse. The perimeter is truncated slightly by a NE-SW field boundary at N and a NW-SE field boundary at E, while the entrance (Wth 1.1m) is at SSE. The interior is overlain by some relict field banks. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-075001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Thought to be an O'Kelly castle (Kelly 1907, 8-9), the Dillons, descendents of Sir James Dillon of Proudstown, Co. Westmeath, had possessions at Curraghboy in the late 15th century, and Margaret, daughter of Robert Dillon of Curraghboy, married Cormac Mac Dermot (KM 1499-1528) (Mac Dermot 1996, 125;). The castle of Curraghboy was owned by Thomas Dillon in 1580 (Cronin 1980, 114) and in the 1590s (Moore 1978, 60). A castle is not marked at Carboy on the Strafford map of c. 1636 but one is indicated at Killcarne just to the W (Simington 1949, Athlone (183, 184)). The town of Curraghboy and land in three quarters there amounting to over 250 acres were owned by Richard Dillon in 1641 and the 1660s (ibid. 100). The castle is marked as a small rectangular structure (dims c. 10m x c. 10m) at the NW angle of a rectangular enclosure (dims c. 45m E-W; c. 40m N-S), perhaps a bawn (RO048-075002-), on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a low NNE-SSW esker ridge with the N-S Cross river just to the W. This is a grass-covered oval mound with some masonry rubble visible (dims of base 29m NNE-SSW; 25m WNW-ESE; dims of top 13.1m NNE-SSW; 7.6m WNW-ESE; H 2.2-3.2m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-075002 Bawn
  Description

  On a low NNE-SSW esker ridge. The castle of Curraghboy (RO048-075001-) is marked as a small square structure at the NW corner of a rectangular enclosure (dims c. 45m E-W; c. 40m N-S), perhaps a bawn, on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The enclosure is no longer visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-191 Burnt mound
  Description

  On low-lying marshy ground. There is local information concerning a mound of broken and burnt stones which was removed in land reclamation, but its precise location is not known. Burnt mound (RO048-190----) is c. 240m to the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Curraghboy, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Curraghboy, Athlone5 sales

Name

Curraghboy · An Currach Buí

Area

3,003,813 m² (300.38 ha, 742.26 acres)

Civil parish

Cam, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Rockhill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

436 people lived in 151 households in the Rockhill electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardmullan, Cam, Carrick, Carrickbeg, Carrowkeeny, Derryglad, Eskerbaun, Gortnasythe, Inchiroe and Gortfree, Kilcar, Rackans

Placenames

Curraghboy 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.