Curragh

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curragh, from 390 m² to 504,773 m² (50.48 ha, 124.73 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Curragh 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.

• 8 Mar 2022Conditional

  To construct a dwelling house and garage with related site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4503

• 20 May 2019Conditional

  Permission for(1) Retention of altered dwelling elevations to those permitted under Planning Ref: 90/3884 and 04/276, (2) the construction of an extension to north of existing dwelling and (3) all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5263

• 21 Sept 2012Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling, entrance and a wastewater treatment system and decommissioning of existing septic tank and install a wastewater treatment system to serve existing dwelling on site

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 12/6005

• 1 Dec 2011Incompleted application

  Dwelling, entrance and wastewater treatment system, decommissioning of existing septic tank and installation of new wastewater treatment system to serve existing dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 11/6516

• 4 Jan 2008Conditional

  Farmyard A - Construction of entrance to farmyard and retention of 2 no. farm machinery sheds, fodder shed/calving shed and feed store, milking parlour, dairy holding yard, slatted farm building and underground slurry tanks for housing dairy cattle and ancillary works. Farmyard B - retention of covered silage pit, cattle crush, straw bedded farm building, machinery house, slatted house and underground slurry tanks for housing of beef cattle and ancillary works and Farmyard C - retention of fodder shed and cubicles and cattle crush, open soiled yard and slurry pit and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4030

• 17 Jul 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 07/9635

• 13 Mar 2007Conditional

  Demolition of existing shed and construction of two storey dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5993

• 13 Mar 2007Conditional

  Demolition of disused community hall and construction of 3 no. two storey dwellinghouses, entrance, boundary walls, and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5974

• 7 Feb 2007Conditional

  Construction of dairy, milking parlour, soiled water tank, cattle crush, slatted beef house, covered collecting yard, silage base and concrete yard and conversion of covered shed to calving pens

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4834

• 2 Jan 2007Refused

  Bungalow

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4018

• 6 Dec 2006Incompleted application

  Demolition of disused shed and construction of two storey dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12997

• 6 Dec 2006Incompleted application

  Demolition of disused community hall and construction of 3 no. two storey dwellinghouses

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12998

• 30 Nov 2006Incompleted application

  Bungalow

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12836

• 28 Sept 2006Conditional

  Construction of slatted beef unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10965

• 20 Mar 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/5660

• 10 Feb 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/734

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 Curragh.

Recorded monuments

• CO023-052 Moated site
  Description

  Depicted as hachured rectangular enclosure (c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with W half of enclosure bisected by N-S townland boundary. In pasture, on S-facing slope. Levelled; interior (42m E-W; 34m N-S) defined by low rise to N, E and S, on E side of townland boundary; no visible surface trace of site on W side of boundary. Kilbrin settlement c. 150m to NNW; Kilbrin medieval church (14403) c. 400m to ENE. Field named 'Camp Field' on 1937 OS 6-inch map; according to Bowman (1934, 402), Lord Inchiquin encamped here after Battle of Knocknanoss in 1647 (14694). Listed by Barry (1981, 83, no. 35). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO023-054 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture. Low mound of burnt material (L 7.5m; Wth 6.5m; H 0.2m). Second fulacht fiadh (10648) c. 90m to SSW. Probably the fulacht fiadh recorded by Bowman (1934, 402) on D. Nugent's land. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO023-055 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture. Low mound of burnt material (L 13m; Wth 10.3m; H 0.3m), atop natural rise. Second fulacht fiadh (10645) c. 90m to NNE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO023-056 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on 1842, 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; circular area (28m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by two low earthen banks (int. H inner bank 0.42m) with shallow intervening fosse and external fosse; outer bank (int. H 1.6m) incorporated into field boundary system W->NNW, with external fosse (D 0.7m). Enclosing features also visible as differential growth patterns. Interior slopes down to E. Bowman (1934,402) records double-ramparted fort in D. Nugent's; inner and outer ramparts survived, 2ft to 6ft and 5ft high respectively; external fosse, 9ft wide at field level, was practically filled in; diameter of inner circuit was 37yd. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO023-057 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage, on S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as circular area (diam. c. 28m) enclosed by hachured fosse on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; visible in field of barley as raised area; fosse survives E->SSW skirted by earthen field boundary (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.2m) which may incorporate remains of second bank. Low rise, to W of N-S field boundary, at W side of site, also suggests remains of second bank. Bowman (1934, 402) record levelled fort in D. Nugent's, single ramparted (diam. c. 39yd). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO023-304 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on E-facing slope. Roughly circular area (45m N-S; 41m E-W) defined by low rise (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.2m); shallow intervening fosse, truncated by roadway to E and by field boundary to S; outer bank survives as low rise SW->NNW with shallow external fosse. Visible as shadow site in aerial photograph (Dr D.D.C. Pochin Mould, March 1993). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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 Curragh.

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 Curragh.

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

Name

Curragh · Currach Cluana Bainbh

Area

1,032,867 m² (103.29 ha, 255.23 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbrin, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Castlecor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlecor electoral division: 464 people in 172 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhest West, Ballynoe, Castlecor Demesne, Clash, Garranmacgarrett, Marybrook

Placenames

Curragh 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.