Curraghagower
Curraghagower is a townland in the civil parish of Moore, barony of Moycarn, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 144.9 ha
- 358 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 12,308 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghagower, from 133 m² to 124,530 m² (12.45 ha, 30.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Curraghagower 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
3 May 2024Conditional
Permission to construct a cubicle house with slurry flow channels, slurry reception tank, a loose strawbedded calving area, geomembrane-lined effluent storage lagoon with surrounding security fence, manure pit, and ancillary concrete aprons on lands at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2474
16 Apr 2024N/a
Permission to construct a cubicle house with slurry flow channels, slurry reception tank, a loose straw bedded calving area, geomembrane lined effluent storage lagoon with surrounding security fence, manure pit and ancillary concrete aprons on my lands at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460
22 Jul 2019Conditional
Planning Permission for the construction of a sheep shed with associated site works and Retention Permission for an agricultural storage shed as constructed at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 19371
11 Jul 2019N/a
the development will consist of the construction of sheep shed with associated site works and the retention of agricultural storage shed as constructed at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 19352
21 Sept 2018Refused
Planning permission to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store with wastewater treatment plant percolation area and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18482
3 Sept 2018N/a
Planning permission to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store with wastewater treatment plant percolation area and all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18445
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Curraghagower.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curraghagower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curraghagower.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Curraghagower, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Curraghagower.
- 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 Curraghagower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Curraghagower
- Area
- 1,448,998 m² (144.9 ha, 358.06 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycarn
- Electoral division
- Ballydangan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 784 people lived in 263 households in the Ballydangan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonaghbrack, Cloonfad, Drumalagagh, Gortnasharvoge
- Placenames
- Curraghagower 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.