Curreeny
Townland in the civil parish of Templederry, barony of Ormond Upper, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Na Coirríní
- Area
- 630.3 ha
- 1,557 acres
- Land parcels
- 124
- registered freehold, median 19,416 m² (1.94 ha, 4.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
124 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curreeny, from 42 m² to 824,785 m² (82.48 ha, 203.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 43 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 Curreeny 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
27 Jun 2026N/a
a septic tank and PERMISSION to construct a new percolation area along with all ancillary site works to service existing dwelling on site
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660627
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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA 004165
Recorded monuments
- TN033-042 Megalithic structure
Description
Situated on a gentle SE-facing slope in wet, upland terrain. A line of three closely set, upright stones orientated NE-SW. The largest, to the NE, measures 0.52m H (L 0.8m), the middle stone is 0.49m H (L 0.53m) and the SW stone is 0.62m H (L 0.45m). Approx. 5m to the SW there are four embedded stones arranged in pairs - possible double walling. This possible walling, running NW-SE, is 1.5m long and c. 0.7m wide. The largest stone is 0.37m high. The distance from the three uprights to the end of the walling is 6.3m. The landowner has dumped a number of boulders on and near the walling, these are loose. The possible remains of a much denuded tomb. 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 Curreeny.
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 Curreeny.
- 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 Curreeny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Curreeny · Na Coirríní
- Area
- 6,302,832 m² (630.28 ha, 1,557.46 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templederry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Upper
- Electoral division
- Templederry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Templederry electoral division: 115 people in 52 households; 94% of households own their home; 14% of homes were built since 2001; 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycarn, Commaun Beg, Coumnagillagh, Cummer, Cummer (Mulloghney), Curreeny Commons, Foilnacanony, Garryglass, Gortahumma, Knocknakill, Laghile, Longjohnshill, Reisk
- Placenames
- Curreeny 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.