Curragh
Townland in the civil parish of Castletownarra, barony of Owney and Arra, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Currach
- Area
- 192.7 ha
- 476 acres
- Land parcels
- 80
- registered freehold, median 4,279 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curragh, from 139 m² to 379,581 m² (37.96 ha, 93.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Curragh 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
28 Aug 2026N/a
dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system, entrance and all ancillary site works
Outline permission, 2 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2660840
24 Feb 2026N/a
one new agricultural round roof barn 5.6m high to store vintage equipment
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660162
13 Nov 2025Conditional
an attic loft at an existing dwelling house
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2561147
7 Nov 2025N/a
an attic loft
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2561120
14 Jun 2025N/a
1. renovation and extension of existing stone cottage, 2. install wastewater system, 3. construct a garden shed along with driveway and all ancillary site works with access via entrance granted permission under PL Ref 2460667
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560552
29 May 2025Conditional
1. the renovation and extension of an existing house, 2. the upgrade of the wastewater system, 3. the revised site boundaries along with driveway and all ancillary site works with access via entrance granted permission under PL Ref 2460667
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560481
14 Aug 2024Conditional
a new entrance to serve two no. houses and to remove existing entrance
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460667
9 Aug 2024N/a
a new entrance to serve two no. houses and remove the existing entrance
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460659
5 Mar 2021Conditional
erection of new cattle shed with under slat effluent tank for agricultural purposes
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21277
10 Jul 2020Conditional
1. palisade fencing and 2 no. entrances along the roadside boundary. 2. permission to erect palisade fencing to the remaining and entire perimter of the site
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 20747
1 Nov 2018N/a
palisade fencing erected on property including access gate and permission for the erection of palisade fencing to the entire boundary of property
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 18601317
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 Curragh.
Recorded monuments
- TN019-017 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a SE-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area. Depicted as a polygonal-shaped enclosure on the 1st ed. (1840) OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN019-031001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on high ground in an upland area with the site of an enclosure (TN019-031002) c. 60m to the S. A circular area (diam. 23m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) and an external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.3m). No entrance feature visible. A field fence intersects the bank at W. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curragh.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 Curragh.
- 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
- Curragh, Portroe9 sales
The townland
- Name
- Curragh · An Currach
- Area
- 1,927,437 m² (192.74 ha, 476.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castletownarra, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Electoral division
- Castletown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castletown electoral division: 1,497 people in 560 households; 79% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boolaglass, Corbally, Coumbeg, Drum, Faha, Kilparteen, Lackamore, Lisheenbrien, Lisheentyrone, Lisheentyrone South
- Placenames
- Curragh 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.