Curraghbower

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghbower, from 493 m² to 764,583 m² (76.46 ha, 188.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Curraghbower 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.

• 21 Oct 2015Conditional

  Construction of agricultural shed for use as machinery store and slatted cubicle house, retention of calf house, slatted unit, calf house/workshop, shed containing milking parlour, collection yard, bulk tank, cubicle house and retention of site clearance inclusding reduction of site levels

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6367

• 16 Mar 2015Incompleted application

  Agricultural shed for use as machinery store and slatted cubicle house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4512

• 21 Nov 2011Conditional

  (1) Retention of dwellinghouse (minor alterations to elevations and layout to that permitted under Planning Reg. No. 99/6814) and two storey domestic garage/store. (2) Permission for construction of an extension to the rear of existing dwellinghouse consisting of new living room/play area on ground floor and two new bedrooms on first floor and alterations to existing house to facilitate the extension (3) Retention of a container which is existing on site for the duration of the construction period and all ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6444

• 28 Oct 2011Incompleted application

  Retention of existing dwelling house and garage in their as built locations. Permission to construct an extension to the rear of his existing dwelling house, to consist of new living room/play area on the ground floor, and two new bedrooms on the first floor, alterations to the existing house to faciliatate the extension. Retention permission is also sought to retain a container which is existing on site for the duration of the construction period, and all ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6303

• 26 May 2011Refused

  Construction of an extension to the rear of existng dwellinghouse to consist of living room/play area on the ground floor, and two no. bedrooms on the first floor, alterations to the existing house to facilitate the extension, and all ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5136

• 24 Oct 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7788

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 Curraghbower.

Recorded monuments

• CO032-064 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage, on E-facing slope. Depicted as semicircular arc formed by hachured bank NW->SE on 1842 OS 6-inch map, enclosing SW corner of field. Levelled; no visible surface trace; field locally known as 'fort field'. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 582) as levelled, single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 30yd) on E. O'Sullivan'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

• CO032-065 Standing stone
  Description

  In farmyard. Removed; no visible surface trace. OS Field Book of 1839 gives 'a large stone, about 6ft high and about 15in thick, about 16ft in girth.' (Grove White 1905-25 vol. 3, 331). Broken 'when the field in which it stood was tilled' some years prior to 1908 (ibid.). 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

• CO032-066 Mill - corn
  Description

  On W bank of Duvglasha River, c. 1.7 km S of Lombardstown. Roofless 3-storey, gable-ended mill (c. 12m NW-SE; c. 7m NE-SW), 3 bays wide, built of random-rubble sandstone; built against NE-facing slope. Windows have wooden lintels; some frames survive in poor condition. No internal floors survive; corrugated iron lean-to covers interior. Wheel-pit (Wth 1.45m) alongside SE gable, contains suspension overshot waterwheel (Wth 1.16m, diam. c. 7m): cast-iron axle; eight wooden arms; secondary thin iron tie arms; larch wood buckets and shroud plate with iron rim (wood painted with pitch). To rear of mill are two stone piers which carried launder, and part of sluice gate which controlled flow between millrace and launder. Built against SW face is 4-storey gable-ended extension, with attic; brick-arched window opes; wooden floors in poor condition. Attached to W corner of extension is 2-storey, 5-bay, gable-ended building; converted to residence in early 20th century. Two millraces: one taken from Glengarriff Stream c. 1.5km to W; second taken from Duvglasha River at Lackavihoonig Bridge c. 550m to S. Mill built by George Bolster in 1848, and ceased to function in early 1930s (Kavanagh 1996, 122). 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 Curraghbower.

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

At the centre of the townland of Curraghbower, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Curraghbower.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Curraghbower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Curraghbower · An Currach Bodhar

Area

895,538 m² (89.55 ha, 221.29 acres)

Civil parish

Kilshannig, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Kilshannig, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,140 people lived in 399 households in the Kilshannig electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drompeesh, Gortmolire, Gortroe, Kilgobnet, Lackendarragh, Laharan

Placenames

Curraghbower 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.