Currane
Townland in the civil parish of Desertserges, barony of Carbery East (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish An Corrán
- Area
- 63.3 ha
- 156 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 17,474 m² (1.75 ha, 4.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Currane, from 827 m² to 353,244 m² (35.32 ha, 87.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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
No zone of a development plan covers Currane 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Aug 2021Conditional
An Existing Telecommunications support structure (previously granted permission under Pl. Ref. 09/521) together with antennas, dishes, cabinets, fencing and all associated site development works. The development will continue to provide high speed wireless broadband and data services
Retention · Cork County Council, 21/537
1 Jul 2020Conditional
to construct dwelling, detached garage and all associated site works at Ballinard, Ballineen, Co. Cork.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/340
12 May 2020Incompleted application
To construct dwelling, detached garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/244
12 Jan 2017Conditional
Permission for Retention for existing 30m high multi-user telecommunications structure (with headframe carrying associated antennae giving overall height of 32.5m) and associated link dishes, assocaited equipment cabin, within security compound, including access track. The development will continue to form part of Vodafone Ireland's Ltd's existing GSM and 3G broadband telecommunications networks
Retention · Cork County Council, 17/7
3 Oct 2016Conditional
Permission to demolish existing ruined dwelling house, permission to construct a dwelling house, installation of a septic tank and percolation area, alterations to roadside boundary ditch and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/609
16 Apr 2015Conditional
Retention of dwellinghouse and retention of 2no. storehouses
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/199
5 May 2009Conditional
Construction of a 30m telecommunications support structure with 3no. 2.1m panel antennas and 7no. 0.6m radio link dishes attached, equipment cabinet, fencing and associated site works as part of the Governments National Broadband Scheme
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/521
19 Jun 2008Conditional
Retention of existing 30m antenna support stucture together with existing telecommunications exchange container, palisade fencing and access track (planning ref: 99/0991) which forms part of Vodafones (IRL) LTD's existing GSM, 3G Broadband telecommunications network
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1158
1 Apr 2008Incompleted application
Retain existing 30m antenna support structure together with existing telecommunications exchange container (planning reg: 99/0991) and this development forms part of Vodafone Ireland Ltd's existing GSM and 3G broadband telecommunications network
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/577
18 Jun 2007Conditional
Construct dwelling on grant of outline planning reg: 06/268
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 07/1599
6 Sept 2006Conditional
Retention of dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1796
1 Aug 2006Incompleted application
Retention of dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1550
22 Feb 2006Conditional
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/268
20 Jun 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3040
27 Jul 2001Conditional
Dormer dwelling (change of plan)
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/4348
6 Apr 2001Conditional
Extension to dwelling & installation of septic tank & percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/1859
30 Mar 2000Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/1806
11 Jan 2000Conditional
2 no. dwellinghouses
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/77
3 Sept 1999Conditional
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/4817
2 Mar 1999Conditional
Erection of 30m high radio communications tower carrying antennae, equipment cabin, fencing & access track
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/991
24 Apr 1998Conditional
Construction of 4 no. dwellinghouses
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 98/1682
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Currane.
Recorded monuments
- CO109-039001 Urn burial
Description
On top of a Currane Hill. Mahr (1937, 362) records an urn 'found in the centre of three concentric stone circles, rising in height from the inner to the outer' each being covered with 'long flags extending round the uprights of each respective circle'. Covered by cairn (CO109-039002-); site destroyed in 1840. Doody (1986) describes the urn as an 'Enlarged Food Vessel'. 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
- CO109-039002 Cairn - unclassified
Description
On top of a Currane Hill. O'Mahony (1961, 22-23) records a cairn covering a urn burial (CO109-039001-). No visible surface trace. 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
- CO109-040 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on steep NE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (33m NW-SE; 31m NNE-SSW) enclosed by earth and stone bank W->S (H 1m); low earthen bank topped by field clearance stones W->S. 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
- CO109-101 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Currane.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Currane.
- 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 Currane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Currane · An Corrán
- Area
- 632,558 m² (63.26 ha, 156.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Desertserges, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Knocks, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Knocks electoral division: 333 people in 111 households; 88% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinard, Carhoovauler, Knockacullen, Shanaway Middle, Shanaway West
- Placenames
- Currane 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.