Curramore
Curramore is a townland in the civil parish of Ballinrobe, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Chora Mhór.
Parcel 875355
- Area
- 16,765 m² (1.68 ha, 4.14 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Curramore
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- MA117-015 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
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 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 low, partly inferred.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 95 ha
- 235 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 3,914 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curramore, from 87 m² to 198,424 m² (19.84 ha, 49.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Curramore 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
23 Aug 2023Conditional
construction of a new residential dwelling house and effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works and services. (A NIS has been prepared)
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23476
25 Aug 2021Conditional
RENOVATION AND EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ON REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21913
16 Mar 2021N/a
CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21234
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Carra/Mask Complex SAC 001774
- Special Protection Area: Lough Mask SPA 004062
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Carra/Mask Complex 001774
Recorded monuments
- MA117-015 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
- Curraghmore, country house, 1841–1858 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey double-pile over basement country house, extant 1858, on a square plan centred on single-bay full-height "bas-relief" breakfront; six-bay full-height rear (north) elevation. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1927. For sale, 1947. Disused, 1990. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan with pressed or rolled lead ridges, rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge having cut-limestone corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging cut-limestone monolithic cornice retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed or snecked tooled cut-limestone walls to front (south) elevation on drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar base; coursed or snecked tooled limestone ashlar surface finish (breakfront) with drag edged tooled cut-limestone stepped buttresses supporting copper-covered cut-limestone monolithic cornice; fine roughcast snecked limestone walls (remainder) with concealed tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening in tripartite arrangement with cut-limestone step threshold, drag edged tooled cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals framing timber panelled door having overlight with sidelights on panelled risers. Paired segmental-headed window openings in square-headed recess (first floor) with cut-limestone sill, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having overlights. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sill courses, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (north) elevation with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Set in landscaped grounds.
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
- The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Curramore.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Curramore.
- 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 Curramore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Curramore · An Chora Mhór
- Area
- 949,718 m² (94.97 ha, 234.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballinrobe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmaine
- Electoral division
- Ballinrobe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 4,118 people lived in 1,517 households in the Ballinrobe electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caher, Cartron, Cloonenagh, Cuslough Demesne
- Placenames
- Curramore 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.