placenamesCurraheen
An Curraichín
The census identifies this southeastern Tipperary townland within Newtown electoral division.
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
A rural return in Slievardagh
Curraheen had thirty-two inhabitants in 1911, nineteen male and thirteen female. All seven houses were occupied. Its population had been forty-five in 1891 and twenty-eight in 1901, with seven and six houses respectively. The original table places the townland in Newtownlennan parish, Slievardagh barony and Newtown electoral division, in the Garrangibbon district of Carrick-on-Suir Union. Its area was recorded as 573 acres, two roods and eighteen perches. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Slievardagh
- Civil parish
- Newtownlennan
- Coordinates
- 52.42126, -7.42160
- Mapped area
- 2.32 km²
- Logainm ID
- 47443 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Curraheen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland1911: County Tipperary, printed p21 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by A. Thom & Company, Dublin, 1912
- 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.