Cuhig

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cuhig, from 384 m² to 1,590,427 m² (159.04 ha, 393 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Cuhig 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.

• 24 Sept 2025Conditional

  retain existing slab and Planning Permission to (a) Erect a garden shed (b) Demolish an existing bathroom to the rear of the existing dwelling house (c) Construct a new extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house, (d) Make alterations to the existing dwelling house to include new roof windows, (e) Decommission the existing septic tank and install a new mechanical wastewater treatment unit, tertiary module and percolation bed and all other associated site works

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560864

• 17 Jul 2024N/a

  INVALID APPLICATION

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 24305

• 1 Nov 2023Conditional

  Full Planning Permission to construct extensions and elevational changes to the existing dwelling house including all associated site services

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360271

• 26 Mar 2010Conditional

  Construction of dwelling house, installation of mini treatment plant and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/217

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: Kenmare River SAC 002158

Recorded monuments

• KE108-020 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on the lower N-facing slopes of Tooth Mountain. The enclosure is not visible at ground level. It is indicated as a circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 15m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE108-044 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, c. 2m N of a NW-flowing stream, on the lower N-facing slope of Knocknaveacal. An oval grass-covered mound (6m NE-SW; 4m NW-SE; H 0.85m) of burnt material, surrounded by blanket bog. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cuhig, 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 high, 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 Cuhig.

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 Cuhig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Cuhig · Cuthaigh

Area

2,392,230 m² (239.22 ha, 591.13 acres)

Civil parish

Tuosist, and its townlands

Barony

Glanarought

Electoral division

Glanmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

245 people lived in 98 households in the Glanmore electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardgroom Outward (Co. Cork), Coolownig, Derrygreenia, Shronebirrane

Placenames

Cuhig 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.