Curraghbrack

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghbrack, from 38 m² to 267,273 m² (26.73 ha, 66.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Curraghbrack 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.

• 24 Sept 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct a dwelling house, detached garage, septic tank, percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21525

• 27 Aug 2021N/a

  The development will consist of a dwelling house, detached garage, septic tank and percolation area and associated site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21478

• 30 Aug 2019Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area

  Outline permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196249

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 Curraghbrack.

Recorded monuments

• WM019-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in gently undulating and hilly pasture, with extensive views in all directions. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a modified roughly oval-shaped earthwork incorporated into field boundaries from NW-N-NE. Monument described in 1970 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 34m E-W; 33m N-S) enclosed by a bank which has been denuded down to a scarp in places and vague traces of an outer fosse. The bank is fragmentary in general and has been steepened in modern times from NW-N-NE, where there is a modern field bank on its upper edge, as depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. There are two small quarried depressions in the bank at E. A modern fence running NNE-SSW intwersects the bank at SSW and from SSW-W-NW there is a modern wire fence along the bank. The original entrance is not recognisable. There is a modern trackway across the scarp at S and at WNW. The interior rises from the perimeter towards the centre and has traces of cultivation ridges running NNW-SSE. Monument is visible today as a roughly oval-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 18 February 2019

• WM019-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views to SE, S and SW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular earthwork. A National Museum of Ireland record card indicates that a bone object was discovered in this ringfort. Monument described in 1970 as the disturbed remains of a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 31m) defined by a bank from SE-S-W-N-NNE. A gap (Wth at top 3.9m; basal Wth 2.5m) at SSW may represent the entrance. There are very vague suggestions of a fosse at the foot of the bank. The interior rises slightly from the perimeter towards the centre. The NE quadrant has been removed by quarrying. The ground outside the monument at S has also been quarried and there is a small heap of upcast outside the entrance gap. Monument is visible today as a tree-planted area on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 18 February 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curraghbrack.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Curraghbrack.

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.

No address of the register names Curraghbrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Curraghbrack

Area

495,635 m² (49.56 ha, 122.47 acres)

Civil parish

Rathconnell, and its townlands

Barony

Moyashel and Magheradernon

Electoral division

Knockdrin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knockdrin electoral division: 609 people in 203 households; 92% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brittas, Clonsheever, Drinmore, Knockdrin, Loughagar Beg, Rathconnell

Placenames

Curraghbrack 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.