Curraghalaher
Townland in the civil parish of St. Johns, barony of Athlone South, Co. Roscommon; in Irish Currach an Leathair
- Area
- 39.4 ha
- 97 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 2,434 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghalaher, from 230 m² to 128,110 m² (12.81 ha, 31.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Curraghalaher 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
11 Jul 2022Conditional
Permission for the construction of a front porch to house at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22357
16 Sept 2020Conditional
to construct a domestic garage and associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20363
12 Oct 2017Conditional
the development will consist of the construction of nine four bedroom two-storey dwelling houses to have new connections to public services and all associated site development works at
Permission, 9 homes · Roscommon County Council, 17425
31 May 2017Conditional
to construct a domestic store and associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17243
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 Curraghalaher.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curraghalaher.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curraghalaher.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Curraghalaher.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Curraghalaher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Curraghalaher · Currach an Leathair
- Area
- 394,135 m² (39.41 ha, 97.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Johns, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone South
- Electoral division
- Carnagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carnagh electoral division: 841 people in 277 households; 93% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Binmuck, Galeybeg, Killiaghan and Gort, Knockanyconor, Toberdan
- Placenames
- Curraghalaher 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.