Curragh Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Clondulane, barony of Condons and Clangibbon, Co. Cork; in Irish An Currach Uachtarach
- Area
- 126.7 ha
- 313 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 13,873 m² (1.39 ha, 3.43 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curragh Upper, from 1,007 m² to 368,535 m² (36.85 ha, 91.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Curragh Upper 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
12 Jun 2024Conditional
Permission to construct a front and both side extensions to dwelling house, The conversion of the attic space for storage and ancillary purposes as well as upgrading the existing septic tank system to a wastewater treatment system and polishing filter in compliance with the EPA code of practice and all ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5095
4 Apr 2024Conditional
Permission to construct 1) milking parlour building incorporating dairy, plant, storage, milk tank, meal bin, holding yard with crush/drafting yard, slatted tank with flow channel, 2) cubicle shed with slatted tanks,3) silage slab and all associated site works. Demolition of 1) cubicle shed and loose shed, 2) open slurry tank, 3) milking parlour and dairy, 4) silage slab is also required
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4573
6 Mar 2024Incompleted application
Permission to construct 1) milking parlour building incorporating dairy, plant, storage, milk tank, meal bin, holding yard with crush/drafting yard, slatted tank with flow channel, 2) cubicle shed with slatted tanks, 3) silage slab and all associated site works. Demolition of 1) cubicle shed and loose shed, 2) open slurry tank, 3) milking parlour and dairy, 4) silage slab.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4382
31 Aug 2015Conditional
Construction of a slatted cubicle house and an animal house incorporating a calf house, calving pens and an adjacent effluent tank and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5951
6 Aug 2015Incompleted application
Construction of a slatted cubicle house and an animal house incorporating a calf house, calving pens and an adjacent tank and associated work.
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5748
18 Jan 2007Incompleted application
Infill of disused quarry with soil and subsoil
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4267
2 Jan 2007Conditional
Construction 2 no. loose houses and roofing of existing unroofed slatted feed area
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4013
13 Nov 2006Incompleted application
Reclamation of land
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12217
8 Sept 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 03/4549
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 Curragh Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curragh Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curragh Upper.
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 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 Upper.
- 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 Curragh Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Curragh Upper · An Currach Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,267,231 m² (126.72 ha, 313.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondulane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Condons and Clangibbon
- Electoral division
- Coole, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Coole electoral division: 1,210 people in 405 households; 82% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bawnnaglogh, Careysville, Curragh Lower, Kilbarry, Knockdromaclogh
- Placenames
- Curragh Upper 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.