Aghacurreen

104 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghacurreen, from 139 m² to 267,212 m² (26.72 ha, 66.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 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 Aghacurreen 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Aghacurreen 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 the townland of Aghacurreen.

Recorded monuments

• RO014-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Just off the crest of a NW-SE ridge on the SW-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 40.2m NW-SE; 31.6m NE-SW) defined by a slight but overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.3-3.8m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.1-0.5m) and a slight outer fosse (Wth of base 2.5-2.8m; D 0.1-0.2m). There is no visible entrance and the site is truncated by a NW-SE field bank towards the perimeter at SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO014-039 Earthwork
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a small feature (diam. c. 15m), perhaps a quarry, and situated just off the crest of a NW-SE ridge, on the SW-facing slope. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO014-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the gentle NE-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. Circular overgrown area (diam. 28m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (at NW: Wth 4.6m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.1m) and outer fosse (at NW: Wth of base 2.8m; D 0.5m) SW-NW, and a scarp (H 0.6m at SE) elsewhere. It is surrounded by field banks NNW-NE and SSE-SW. There is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO014-041001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  At the crest of the E-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge, at the SE end. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 24.5m N-S; 24.1m N-S) defined by 14 large stones (dims up to 1.2m x. 0.8m; H 0.7m) which are the inner or outer facing stones of the wall, the rest being robbed. Souterrain (RO014-041002-) is in the interior, mass-rock (RO014-041003-) is 9m to the SE, and there are quarries to 15m the N and just to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO014-041002 Souterrain
  Description

  In the W interior of cashel (RO014-041001-). A sunken area (dims 3m E-W; 1.6m N-S; D 0.4m) has a lintel (dim. 1.15m; T 0.4m) leading to an inaccessible passage at its W end. The sunken area turns SE (L 2.5m) at its E end. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO014-041003 Mass-rock
  Description

  At the crest of the E-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge, at the SE end, and just 9m SE of the perimeter of cashel (RO014-041001-). A stone (L 2.8m; Wth 1.2m; H 0.7m) is regarded locally as a mass rock. 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 Aghacurreen.

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 Aghacurreen, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Aghacurreen

Area

3,082,689 m² (308.27 ha, 761.75 acres)

Civil parish

Tibohine, and its townlands

Barony

Frenchpark

Electoral division

Loughglinn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

780 people lived in 328 households in the Loughglinn electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghadrestan, Aghalustia, Cartron More, Moyne, Roosky

Placenames

Aghacurreen 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.