Curragh West

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Curragh West, from 87,081 m² (8.71 ha, 21.52 acres) to 87,081 m² (8.71 ha, 21.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 West 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.

• 24 Feb 2026Grant with conditions

  Construction of a slatted cattle shed to include livestock cubicle housing with slatted slurry storage tanks, plus all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0446

• 13 Mar 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/705

• 16 Feb 2007Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/424

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 West.

Recorded monuments

• CO117-008001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a hillock on the NW bank of a river with restricted views due to trees. A circular area (diam. c. 20m) is enclosed by occasional traces of an eroded earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; H 0.1m). The entire rath, including the sloping flanks of the hillock, has been disturbed. The disturbed surface of the interior is uneven and on it mature holly and oak trees are growing. The flanks of the hillock are obscured by gorse. A souterrain (CO117-008002-) is located near the centre of the interior. According to local information, this is known as a 'fort'. Another rath and souterrain (CO117-009001-, CO117-009002-) are located c. 130m to the NE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO117-008002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (CO117-008001-). An opening (Wth 1.2m; H 0.8m) near the centre of the rath leads down into an earth-cut chamber (min. L 1.5m) with a rounded roof. This chamber is inaccessible due to a pile-up of earth dug out by badgers. Depressions and an area of collapse indicate that the souterrain runs in a SW direction for at least 12m. Local people recall crawling through this souterrain as children as far as an exit on the bank of a nearby river, c. 15m to the SE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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 West.

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

Name

Curragh West · An Currach Thiar

Area

87,592 m² (8.76 ha, 21.64 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcaskan, and its townlands

Barony

Bear

Electoral division

Adrigole, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Adrigole electoral division: 497 people in 204 households; 92% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curragh East, Dromagowlane, Keeltrasna, Killenough

Placenames

Curragh West 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.