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Curraheen

An Curraichín

The original census places this Curraheen in Greenhall electoral division, west of its Toomevara namesake.

Recorded locationCurraheen52.79072° N · 8.32736° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.

Recorded forms

  • An Curraichín · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Curraheen · English · main form

Place & story

The Greenhall return

Curraheen had thirty-five inhabitants in 1911, eighteen male and seventeen female. Nine houses were occupied and one was empty. Its population had been forty-nine in 1891 and fifty-seven in 1901, with twelve and eleven houses respectively. The townland appears under Killoscully parish, Owney and Arra barony and Greenhall electoral division, within Nenagh Union. Its recorded area was 164 acres, one rood and thirty-two perches. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tipperary
Civil parish
Killoscully
Coordinates
52.79072, -8.32736
Mapped area
0.67 km²
Logainm ID
46407 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Curraheen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland1911: County Tipperary, printed p56 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by A. Thom & Company, Dublin, 1912
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.