Townland

Curraheen

An Curraichín

The original census identifies this Curraheen in the Fethard district of southern Tipperary.

Watercolour and fine ink view through open iron gates along a tree-lined farm avenue, with stone walls and yellow daffodils at Curraheen near Drangan.
Illustration, a spring farm avenue at Curraheen near Drangan, County Tipperary
Recorded locationCurraheen52.50940° N · 7.61713° 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 Peppardstown return

Curraheen had forty-five inhabitants in 1911, twenty male and twenty-five female. All ten houses were occupied. Its population had been sixty-six in 1891 and sixty-nine in 1901, with fifteen and thirteen houses respectively. The townland was listed under Peppardstown parish and electoral division, Middlethird barony and Cashel Union, within the Fethard district. Its area was recorded as 326 acres, three roods and thirty-two perches. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tipperary
Civil parish
Peppardstown
Coordinates
52.50940, -7.61713
Mapped area
1.32 km²
Logainm ID
47860 ↗

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 p26 · 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.
  4. Spring farm avenue at Curraheen near Drangan, County Tipperary illustration: based on a Gated Avenue by kevin higgins. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

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