Currabeg

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Currabeg, from 1,137 m² to 177,156 m² (17.72 ha, 43.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Currabeg 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.

• 5 May 2017Conditional

  Demolition of existing dwellinghouse & construction of new dwellinghouse & associated siteworks

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/266

• 7 Nov 2011Refused

  Modification of an existing windfarm development permitted under Planning Reg. No. 01/980 at Garranure, Kilvinane and Carrigeen, Ballynacarriga, Dunmanway, Co. Cork. The proposed development comprises of the replacement of two existing wind turbines (hub height 60m, rotor diameter 80m) with two larger turbines (max. hub height 67m, max. rotor diameter 90m)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/676

• 13 May 2010Unconditional

  4 Turbines, electrical substation, mast and associated works

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 10/342

• 13 Jul 2007Unconditional

  Construction of four wind turbines, electrical substation with control building, meterological mast, upgrading of site entrance and associated site works

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 07/1892

• 13 Sept 2002Conditional

  Agricultural machinery shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/4057

• 5 Oct 2001Conditional

  Erection of polytunnel and retention of polytunnel

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/5513

• 5 Oct 2001Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/5492

• 28 Feb 2001Conditional

  Windfarm consisting of 4 wind turbines,electrical substation with control building, 50m meteorological mast, upgrading of entrance & assoc. works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/980

• 29 Feb 2000Conditional

  Erection of 1 no. 40m high mast with wind monitoring anenometer

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/1041

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 Currabeg.

Recorded monuments

• CO108-059 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop natural rise. Circular raised area (26.5m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.6m) W->E; scarp E->W. Interior slopes gently down to SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO108-060 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop natural rise. Circular raised area (30m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by eroded earthen bank (H 1.4m) to N and E; stone field boundary to S and W. Cultivation ridges cross interior on E-W axis. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Currabeg.

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 Currabeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Currabeg · An Chora Bheag

Area

698,384 m² (69.84 ha, 172.57 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymoney, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (East Division)

Electoral division

Ballymoney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymoney electoral division: 885 people in 323 households; 71% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Buddrimeen, Garranure, Kilvurra, Knockacullen, Shanaway West

Placenames

Currabeg 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.