# Curraghbower, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilshannig, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish An Currach Bodhar.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 895,538 m² (89.55 ha, 221.29 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,759 m² (0.68 ha, 1.67 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilshannig, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/kilshannig.md
- Barony: Duhallow
- Electoral division: Kilshannig, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/11877
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 42066
- Centre: latitude 52.101883, longitude -8.783927 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghbower, from 493 m² to 764,583 m² (76.46 ha, 188.93 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2338347: 764,583 m² (76.46 ha, 188.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2338347.md
- Parcel 5081674: 52,282 m² (5.23 ha, 12.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5081674.md
- Parcel 5081690: 47,905 m² (4.79 ha, 11.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5081690.md
- Parcel 3656895: 11,565 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3656895.md
- Parcel 2338346: 9,155 m² (0.92 ha, 2.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2338346.md
- Parcel 4266588: 4,362 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4266588.md
- Parcel 2144641: 2,624 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2144641.md
- Parcel 2144640: 2,044 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2144640.md
- Parcel 2338345: 1,495 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2338345.md
- Parcel 2144642: 493 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2144642.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

6 applications, newest first.

- 21 Oct 2015, Cork County Council 15/6367: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=15/6367
- 16 Mar 2015, Cork County Council 15/4512: Incompleted application. Permission. Agricultural shed for use as machinery store and slatted cubicle house. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=15/4512
- 21 Nov 2011, Cork County Council 11/6444: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=11/6444
- 28 Oct 2011, Cork County Council 11/6303: Incompleted application. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=11/6303
- 26 May 2011, Cork County Council 11/5136: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=11/5136
- 24 Oct 2005, Cork County Council 05/7788: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/7788

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Curraghbower.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CO032-064: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO032-064----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO032-065----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO032-066----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/curraghbower.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/curraghbower.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/curraghbower.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Curraghbower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Drompeesh: https://everytownland.com/cork/drompeesh.md
- Gortmolire: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortmolire.md
- Gortroe: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortroe-43053.md
- Kilgobnet: https://everytownland.com/cork/kilgobnet-43388.md
- Lackendarragh: https://everytownland.com/cork/lackendarragh.md
- Laharan: https://everytownland.com/cork/laharan-44000.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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