Curra
Townland in the civil parish of Kinure, barony of Kinalea, Co. Cork; in Irish An Currach
- Area
- 117.8 ha
- 291 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 3,412 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 33
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curra, from 179 m² to 312,169 m² (31.22 ha, 77.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Curra 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
26 Sept 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a new dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6044
28 Nov 2024Conditional
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house and garage, change of design from previously permitted planning ref: 19/05181 and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6256
22 Apr 2022Conditional
Construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4928
4 Mar 2022Incompleted application
To construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4476
11 Sept 2020Conditional
To construct a dwellinghouse with carport and garage for domestic purpose, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5976
10 May 2019Conditional
The construction of a dwellinghouse, garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5181
10 May 2019Unconditional
Erection of glasshouse to rear of dwelling, to replace polytunnel
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5174
20 Jul 2017Conditional
Construction of dwelling (change of design from that permitted under Planning Reg. No. 16/6120 to include change from stone façade to plastered façade and raising of ridge height) and construction of detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5876
26 Jun 2017Incompleted application
Permission for alterations to dwelling, which include change from stone façade to plastered façade, raising of ridge height of dwelling and construction of attached garage (change of plan and site plan) from that which was permitted under planning reference 16/6120 with associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5603
10 Feb 2017Conditional
Relocation of sewerage treatment system serving existing dwellinghouse and retention of revised site boundaries to dwellinghouse granted permission under Planning Reg. No. S/00/6142
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4286
24 Aug 2016Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6120
10 Sept 2013Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse with attached garage, proprietary treatment unit and associated percolation area, vehicular entrance to the public road and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5757
11 Oct 2011Unconditional
Completion of dwelling as permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 06/6469
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/6180
25 May 2011Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5123
12 Jul 2010Refused
Two-storey dwelling, wastewater treatment plant and percolaation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5733
11 Aug 2009Conditional
Retention of 3no. velux rooflights to front elevation of dwelling house, and polytunnell for growing plants for domestic purposes to rear of dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6680
21 Jul 2009Incompleted application
Retention of polytunnel to rear of house & 3no.velux rooflights to front elevation
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6410
6 Apr 2009Conditional
Construction of car port to rear of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5077
13 Mar 2009Incompleted application
Construction of car port to rear of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4786
15 Apr 2008Conditional
Retention of domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6055
14 Jun 2007Refused
Retention of detached domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8640
10 Oct 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11313
4 Sept 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/10260
23 Aug 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/9992
26 Jul 2006Refused
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9245
The 25 most recent of 33 applications.
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Curra.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curra.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curra.
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 Curra.
- 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 Curra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Curra · An Currach
- Area
- 1,178,384 m² (117.84 ha, 291.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kinure, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Electoral division
- Kinure, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kinure electoral division: 395 people in 134 households; 85% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballingarry West, Bawnagoynig, Cooleens, Knockleigh, Knocknahowla Beg, Knocknanav, Tonabuska
- Placenames
- Curra 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.