Curraghcreen

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghcreen, from 1,067 m² to 236,039 m² (23.6 ha, 58.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Curraghcreen 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.

• 20 Aug 2014Conditional

  Demolition of existing two-storey dwelling, construction of new two-storey dwelling, garage, entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5775

• 16 Apr 2014Incompleted application

  Demolition of an existing two storey dwelling, construction of a new two storey dwelling, garage, entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4773

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 Curraghcreen.

Recorded monuments

• CO032-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on brow of SW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; survives as circular, slightly raised, saucer-shaped area (internal diam. 21m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by scarp (H 0.55m). Surrounding field fences removed. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 15) as levelled, single-ramparted fort (diam. 39yd) on J. Cagney'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

• CO032-054 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on W-facing slope, just above Finnow stream. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; single arc of hachures depicting scarp NNW->SSE, respected by avenue to Rathnee House, on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; realignment of avenue to house bisects site. Circular area (diam. c. 31m) defined by scarp (H 0.95m) to SE, with shallow external fosse; faint trace of shallow fosse W->NW, continues as differential crop growth NW->ENE. May be double-ramparted ringfort (diam. c. 33yd) recorded by Bowman (1934, 15) on H. Deady's land, with outer rampart levelled, inner rampart c. 8ft H and saucer-shaped interior. 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 Curraghcreen.

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 Curraghcreen, about 1 in 10 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 Curraghcreen.

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

Name

Curraghcreen · An Currach Críon

Area

733,423 m² (73.34 ha, 181.23 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyclogh, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Kilmaclenine, the unit of the census

Census 2022

709 people lived in 266 households in the Kilmaclenine electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curraghalehane, Kilcranathan, Kilpatrick, Rathnee, Ruanes

Placenames

Curraghcreen 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.