Curraghgrane More
Townland in the civil parish of Desert, barony of Carbery East (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Cruagharrán Mór
- Area
- 44.9 ha
- 111 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 1,605 m²
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghgrane More, from 534 m² to 2,675 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 · 9 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
15 Jan 2020Conditional
Alterations and extensions to the existing domestic garage, including the conversion of the ground floor area to a granny flat, along with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/9
11 May 2018Conditional
Construct dwelling, domestic garage, install wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/270
25 Aug 2006Conditional
Construct a domestic garage with associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1723
14 Jul 2006Incompleted application
Domestic garage with associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1364
4 Nov 2005Refused
Construction of detached building containing a granny flat on first floor and storage with stables on ground floor
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8140
15 Dec 2004Conditional
Retention of installation of decking to front of Deasy's Bar
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9214
23 Nov 2004Incompleted application
Retention of installation of decking to front of Deasy's Bar
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8631
5 Oct 2001Conditional
Demolition of dwelling & construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/5490
2 Feb 2001Conditional
Construction of new entrance & access road to existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/412
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Clonakilty Bay SAC 000091
- Special Protection Area: Clonakilty Bay SPA 004081
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clonakilty Bay 000091
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curraghgrane More.
Architectural heritage
- Boathouse, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached triple-pile gable-fronted boathouse, built c.1860. Pitched corrugated-iron roofs. Rubble stone walls with quoins, having section of render to central gable of front (south) elevation. Camber-headed door opening to front elevation, having red brick voussoirs and double-leaf battened timber doors with wrought-iron strap hinges. Located on roadside overlooking Clonakilty harbour.
- Pier/jetty, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Dressed limestone pier, built c.1860, having dressed limestone walls with limestone coping stones with recent concrete repairs.
- House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, having canted front porch to front (east), canted elevation to side (south) and later multiple-bay two-storey with dormer attic extension to side (north). Two-storey lean-to and gable-fronted projecting bay to rear (west). Pitched slate roofs with rendered gable copings, timber-clad eaves course and uPVC rainwater goods. Hipped slate roof to canted front side (south) elevation and porch. Rubble stone walls throughout. Square-headed window openings with stone sills throughout, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to rear and replacement timber casement windows elsewhere. Round-headed window opening with stone sill to front elevation of porch having timber casement window. Square-headed door opening to rear having timber battened door.
- Northring House, house, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1760, having single-bay single-storey addition to side (south-west) and multiple-bay single-storey block to side (north-east). Pitched slate roofs throughout, having rendered chimneystacks, timber-clad eaves courses and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered wall with moulded render quoins to front (south-east) elevation, slate hanging to side (south-west) elevation. Square-headed window openings with stone sills having moulded render block-and-start surrounds and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening having pedimented render surround comprising pilasters surmounted by pediment, timber panelled door and overlight.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Curraghgrane More.
- 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 Curraghgrane More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Curraghgrane More · Cruagharrán Mór
- Area
- 449,098 m² (44.91 ha, 110.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Desert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Templeomalus, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Templeomalus electoral division: 786 people in 271 households; 87% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ashgrove, Curraghgrane Beg, Desert
- Placenames
- Curraghgrane More 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.