Curraghoo More

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghoo More, from 515 m² to 318,479 m² (31.85 ha, 78.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Curraghoo More 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 2024Conditional

  Permission to construct a dwelling, domestic garage and all associated site works and services

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5575

• 18 Dec 2017Conditional

  A single storey dwelling with attic space, garage, entrance and septic tank.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/7325

• 2 Nov 2006Conditional

  Construction of covered slatted tank with easy feed, extension to silage slab, dairy washings tank and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11945

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 Curraghoo More.

Recorded monuments

• CO027-018 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On rock outcrop, Funshion River c. 150m to W. Three-storey rectangular tower (6.2m N-S; 8m E-W), but originally higher (see plan in Cotter 1994, 85-6); SW corner collapsed above 1st-floor level. Doorways at ground- and 1st-floor levels, one above the other, near S end of W wall. Partially collapsed doorway leads directly into ground-floor chamber (4.1m E-W; 2.5m N-S). Chamber lit by double-splayed window embrasure in centre of E and S walls. Overhead is bluntly pointed vault (long axis E-W); in NW corner of vault is manhole. Tower inaccessible above this level; 1st-floor doorway collapsed; traces of spiral stairs evident in SW corner; vault (long axis E-W) visible over 2nd-floor chamber. Window opes positioned at 1st-floor level on S, E and W walls, at 2nd-floor level on E and W walls, and at 3rd-floor on N wall; lights mostly missing, but latter two on 2nd and 3rd floors have single lintelled light. Garderobe chute exits near base of N wall. Castle of the O Hennessy family (Ó Murchadha 1985, 163). Almost identical in form to nearby tower house at Dunmahon (14362). 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

• CO027-019 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle slope on N side of Funshion River. Two stones standing 0.5m apart with parallel E-W axes. North stone is erect (H 2.05m; 1.35m x 0.7m). South stone leans against other stone (H 2.4m if erect; 1.7m x 0.6m); tops of both stones likely to be level if latter was upright. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1982, 43) 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

• CO027-020001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on W-facing slope. Circular area (c. 50m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.8m); external fosse (D 1.3m) N->E. Break (Wth 5.8m) in bank to E. Interior slopes down to S; heavily overgrown and cut by streams; fulacht fiadh (10671) at centre. Field boundary skirting site N->S, shown on 1935 OS 6-inch map and partially hachured to NE, is part of recent farm laneway. 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

• CO027-020002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In interior of ringfort (12397). Partially overgrown spread of burnt material. 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

• CO027-117 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on break in W-facing slope, overlooking River Funshion. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 22m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, N half incorporated into field fence system. Levelled; arc (C 16m) formed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m) survives WNW->NE; stone faced externally to N. External height of bank increases to c. 1.8m to WNW where land slopes down from site. Small shed built up against outer face of bank to N, with larger shed to NE. 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 Curraghoo More.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Curraghoo 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.

No address of the register names Curraghoo More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Curraghoo More · Corr Thua Mhór

Area

801,062 m² (80.11 ha, 197.95 acres)

Civil parish

Glanworth, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Glanworth West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glanworth West electoral division: 1,156 people in 415 households; 76% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamona, Boherash, Clontinty, Curraghoo Beg, Dunmahon, Killeenemer

Placenames

Curraghoo 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.