Buncurrig

126 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Buncurrig, from 16 m² to 409,978 m² (41 ha, 101.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 32 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M4Built up Area (Built up area)
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Conservation, amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Active Open Space (Active open space)
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New/Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 30 Jan 2026N/a

  Full planning permission for the following development, (A) construction of a central amenity building consisting of a reception, office, work area, laundry, sanitary facilities, caretaker’s apartment, games area & bin store, (B) installation of 66 no. additional mobile homes, (C) provision of 8 no. campervan pitches, (D) site improvements to enhance access, parking and visitor amenities, (E) roadside boundary improvements and associated site entrances / exits set back and re-aligned, (F) all associated ancillary siteworks & services at Gavin’s mobile home & holiday park, Sandhills road, Ballyheigue, Co.Kerry.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660064

• 15 Jan 2026Conditional

  Planning Permission to construct an extension to the rear of the existing Dwelling House, including associated minor elevational alterations, along with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660013

• 6 Sept 2023Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT AN ASTRO PITCH INCORPORATING A 5M HIGH WALL BALL WITH 5M HIGH PERIMETER FENCING AND NETTING WITH ASSOCIATED LIGHTING, (B) CONSTRUCT A PERIMETER WALKING TRACK WITH ASSOCIATED LIGHTING AND (C) INSTALL 2.0M HIGH PERIMETER FENCING TO SITE BOUNDARY AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 23968

• 23 Feb 2022Conditional

  RENOVATE AND EXTEND EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22191

• 13 Sept 2021Conditional

  (1) DEMOLISH EXISTING STORE AT REAR OF PREMISES (O'REGANS BAR), (2) CONSTRUCT TWO STOREY PRIVATE ACCOMMODATION WITHIN THE GREATER PART OF THE EXISTING STORE TO BE DEMOLISHED, (3) RAISE EXISTING YARD LEVEL, (4) CONNECT TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER AND PUBLIC WATER MAINS (5) CREATE 5 NO. ON SITE CAR PARKING SPACES TO SERVE EXISTING BAR AND NEW RESIDENTIAL UNIT (6) CREATE AN ON SITE PRIVATE AMENITY SPACE TO SERVE NEW RESIDENTIAL UNIT (7) CONSTRUCT SOAKWAY FOR RAINWATER FROM NEW BUILD AND SURFACE WATER FROM YARD , (8) REUSE EXISTING STONE FROM STORE TO BE DEMOLISHED ON PROPOSED NEW BUILD ,(9) ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ASOCIATED WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PROPOSED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211042

• 23 Apr 2021Conditional

  DEMOLISH FRONT WALL AND OPEN A VEHICLE ENRANCE AND PARKING AREA TO FRONT OF HOUSE

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 21445

• 3 Feb 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCT 2 NO. DETACHED HOUSES AND 2 NO. SEMI DETACHED HOUSES WITH ACCESS ROAD

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2185

• 18 Dec 2020Refused

  CONSTRUCT A HOLIDAY PARK TO BE KNOWN AS THE GLEBE HOLIDAY PARK WITH 96 NO. STATIC MOBILE HOMES , 20 NO. TOURING PITCHES, 10 NO. CASUAL CAMPING SPACES A SERVICES BUILDING AND A BIN STORE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES INCLUDING A WASTEWATER PIPE NETWORK WHICH IS PROPOSED TO BE CONNECTED TO THE PUBLIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 201245

• 12 Nov 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A STOREY AND A HALF STYLE DWELLING WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES AND TO CONNECT TO THE PUBLIC WASTEWATER SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 201089

• 22 Jul 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT WORKS CONSISTING OF RE-BUILD, PARTIAL DEMOLITION, EXTENSION AND ALTERATION TO AN EXISTING FIRE DAMAGED SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, UTILISING EXISTING WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ENTRANCE

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19774

• 24 Oct 2018Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING BUILDING AND REBUILD A PRIVATE SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION, ALSO RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN EXISTING CONCRETE SLAB AND CARAVAN ON SITE FOR DURATION OF CONSTRUCTION

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 181035

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: Akeragh, Banna and Barrow Harbour SAC 000332
• Special Protection Area: Tralee Bay Complex SPA 004188
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Akeragh, Banna And Barrow Harbour 000332

Recorded monuments

• KE014-074 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 33m N-S, 34m E-W This univallate rath is situated in low-lying land which rises slightly to the NW. A fieldbank runs immediately outside the N side of the site in an E-W direction. The view from this site is extensive in all directions. The site consists of a circular area enclosed by a well-defined earthen bank and exterior fosse. The enclosing bank on average is 7m in width at the base; it has a steep exterior side which rises to a maximum height of 1.8m above the fosse and .6m above the interior. The fosse is U shaped and well-defined especially to the N through W. It is from 1.6m-2.8m wide and on average .75m deep. The interior is at a higher level than the surrounding land. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 464. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Buncurrig, about 1 in 10 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Buncurrig.

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.

• Buncurrig, Ballyheigue6 sales

Name

Buncurrig · Bun Curraigh

Area

2,102,108 m² (210.21 ha, 519.44 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyheige, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Ballyheige, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,446 people lived in 570 households in the Ballyheige electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyheige, Ballymacquin Lower, Dirtane, Dromgower

Placenames

Buncurrig 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.