Curraghbowen
Townland in the civil parish of Kilgullane, barony of Condons and Clangibbon, Co. Cork; in Irish Currach Uí Bhuacháin
- Area
- 55.8 ha
- 138 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 3,350 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghbowen, from 488 m² to 250,700 m² (25.07 ha, 61.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 24 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Feb 2022Conditional
Two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, secondary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4370
20 Oct 2021Conditional
The construction of a two storey, part single storey dwelling, treatment unit and percolation area, new site entrance from public road and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6858
29 Jul 2019Conditional
Retention of extensions attached to side and rear of dwellinghouse and retention of alterations to dwellinghouse
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/5903
12 Oct 2009Conditional
Dwelling, entrance, septic tank, percolation area & associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7303
16 Sept 2009Conditional
One-and-a-half storey dwelling, garage, entrance, septic tank, percolation area & associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7068
16 Sept 2009Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, entrance, septic tank, percolation area and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7069
23 Mar 2007Conditional
Dwelling and detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6405
25 May 2006Incompleted application
Construction of cattle shed with slatted tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7478
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 Curraghbowen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curraghbowen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curraghbowen.
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 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 Curraghbowen.
- 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 Curraghbowen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Curraghbowen · Currach Uí Bhuacháin
- Area
- 558,236 m² (55.82 ha, 137.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgullane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Condons and Clangibbon
- Electoral division
- Kilgullane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilgullane electoral division: 159 people in 56 households; 91% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykearney, Broomhill, Carriganleigh, Curraheen, Flemingstown, Johnstown, Kilgullane
- Placenames
- Curraghbowen 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.