Currakeal

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Currakeal, from 179,838 m² (17.98 ha, 44.44 acres) to 320,775 m² (32.08 ha, 79.27 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Currakeal 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Currakeal in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Glengarriff Harbour and Woodland SAC 000090
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Currakeal 001826

Recorded monuments

• CO090-007001 Stone row
  Description

  On bog-covered plateau on S slopes of Barraboy mountain and c. 100m SE of stone row (CO090-00601-). Row of three stones, aligned ENE-WSW, and 2.7m in overall length. NE stone is 0.55m L, 0.4m T and 1.05m H. Next stone, 0.55m to the SW, is 0.4m L, 0.35m T and 1.35m H. Third and tallest stone, 0.5m to the SW, is 0.6m L, 0.7m T and 1.45m H. (Ó Nualláin 1988, 234, no. 31). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO090-007002 Boulder-burial
  Description

  In rough hill pasture just NE of a saddle separating the townlands of Currakeal and Canrooska with views to Barraboy Mountain and nearby valleys. A flat-topped rectangular cover-stone (1.5m NE-SW; 1.2m NW-SE; H 0.9m) resting on four support-stones augmented by a pad-stone on the N stone. A stone row (146, vol. 1) stands 49m to SW and another stone row (140, vol. 1), a five-stone circle (65, vol. 1) and a cairn (839, vol. 1) are located 95-100m to the NW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO090-024001 Field boundary
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on bog on a N-facing ridge slope with a view to Barraboy Mountain. A network of relict stone field boundaries (T 0.5m; H 0.6m) protrudes intermittently above the surface of the bog in an irregularly shaped area (c. 140m N-S; c. 90m E-W). Several gaps occur along the mainly curvilinear field boundaries. Many of the stones are set at right angles to the line of the walls. There is a hut site (CO090-024002-) within the field boundary network. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO090-024002 Hut site
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on bog and within a network of relict field boundaries (CO090-024001-). The remains of a roughly square hut site (3m E-W; 2.8m N-S) defined by a stone wall (T 0.5m; H 0.3m) which protrudes above the surface of the bog. The wall remains at the S and the E are linear sections of relict field walls from the network of field boundaries. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Currakeal.

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

Name

Currakeal · An Currach Caol

Area

500,762 m² (50.08 ha, 123.74 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcaskan, and its townlands

Barony

Bear

Electoral division

Kilcaskan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcaskan electoral division: 895 people in 373 households; 80% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Canrooska, Derreennagough, Dromderaown, Gortroe Upper, Rossnashunsoge

Placenames

Currakeal 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.