Currymount

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Currymount, from 414 m² to 177,062 m² (17.71 ha, 43.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Currymount 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.

• 27 Sept 2024Conditional

  Permission for retention of existing agricultural vehicular entrance as constructed

  Retention · Cork County Council, 24/5824

• 27 May 2024Conditional

  Permission to a) construct a new dwelling house, b) modify an existing entrance and c) install anew wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4959

• 28 May 2014Conditional

  Retention of dwellinghouse as constructed and construction of a single storey front extension, alterations to existing facades, new pitched roof to existing flat roof single storey annex, installation of a new waste water treatment plant and polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5117

• 28 Nov 2012Conditional

  Construction of two storey dwelling, domestic garage, entrance, domestic wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6432

• 1 Jun 2005Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3792

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 Currymount.

Recorded monuments

• CO016-123 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture. Low horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (14.2m NE-SW: 13.3m NW-SE; H 0.35m); opening (Wth 2.1m) faces NW. 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

• CO016-124 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle SSE-facing slope. Circular area (29.6m E-W; 28.8m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1.3m); external fosse (D 0.4m) N->NW. Bank and interior partially overgrown; formerly planted with coniferous trees, stumps remain. Stream flows in fosse to E. 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

• CO016-125 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on SW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Oval area (20m E-W; 17.5m N-S) enclosed by low rise (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.7m). Low narrow ridge running N-S bisects interior and extends over bank but not beyond. Standing stone (9953) in same field c. 150m to SE. 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

• CO016-126 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Stone (H 1.07m; 0.32m x 0.18m) is rectangular in plan, narrowing slightly towards top, long axis E-W. 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

• CO016-127 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  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.

• CO016-128 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on steep SE-facing slope. Circular area (32m N-S; 29.3m E-W) enclosed by scarp (H c. 2m) NNE->SW; earthen bank (int. H 1.8m) SW->NW, with external fosse (D 1.05m); worn earthen bank NW->N with shallow external fosse. Break in bank to N (Wth 3.9m) and SW (Wth 3.1m). To N, outside break in bank, path across fosse raised on E side, and faced with stone, to compensate for hillslope. Interior slopes down steeply to SE; farm trackway joins both entrances; surface uneven due to fallen branches and dumped field clearance stones. Locally known as fort. 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

• Curraghmount House, country house, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey house, comprising central five-bay block, built c.1780, and advanced end bays with three-bay sides and with box-bay windows to front, and flat-roof porch to main block, all added c. 1860. Slate roof, pitched to central block and hipped to advanced bays and box-bay windows, with painted rendered chimneystacks. Painted rendered walls with decorative render bracket course. Round-headed windows to central block, having one-over-one pame timber sliding sash windows. Camber-headed windows to side elevations and box-bay windows of later additions and porch, having mainly paired six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed window openings to first floor of façade of end bays having uPVC windows. Camber-headed openings to flat roofed porch. Entrance gates of c. 1820 to south, comprising angled coursed snecked limestone ashlar walls terminating in square-plan limestone ashlar piers having wrought-iron double-leaf gates.

• Curraghmount House, gate lodge, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey gate lodge, built c. 1880, with projecting gabled central bay and having single-storey lean-to addition to rear. Pitched slate roof having clay ridge tiles, painted rendered chimneystack and scalloped timber bargeboards. Snecked ashlar limestone walls to façade and coursed rubble to other elevations. Square-headed window openings having painted brick block-and-start surrounds and render label-mouldings, with metal pivot windows to front, double to end bays and single to middle bay, and having some replacement uPVC elsewhere. Square-headed door opening having painted brick block-and-start surrounds, render label-moulding and timber battened door with paned overlight. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate to garden to front. Curved entrance to east of lodge, comprising coursed limestone rubble walls terminating in square-plan piers with double-leaf wrought-iron gates.

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 Currymount, about 1 in 20 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 Currymount.

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

Name

Currymount · Currach na Leathsheisrí

Area

1,051,244 m² (105.12 ha, 259.77 acres)

Civil parish

Bregoge, and its townlands

Barony

Orrery and Kilmore

Electoral division

Churchtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,286 people lived in 427 households in the Churchtown electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Buavanagh, Dunbarry, Mountbridget, Templemary, Tullig

Placenames

Currymount 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.