Curra

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curra, from 555 m² to 450,629 m² (45.06 ha, 111.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Curra 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 Curra 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Curra.

Recorded monuments

• KE063-007 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Toberykeel/Tobar Uí Chaoil: This heavily overgrown, stone-lined spring well is located a short distance W of Glenbeigh village. Traces of a small wall-surround survive. The well is dedicated to St Gregory, the patron of the parish, whose feast day, the 12th of March, was formerly celebrated here (OSL). Rounds were also formerly made at the well on Saturday evenings and Sunday mornings (OSNB Glanbeagh, 21). The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1063. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE063-008 Children's burial ground
  Description

  This site is located in a narrow strip of pasture between the Behy river and Curra Wood. It is noted as an unenclosed children's burial ground in the OSNB (Glanbeagh, 45), but was in use as a formal graveyard for at least part of the twentieth century. Towards the centre of the site is an overgrown area, marked by holly and ash trees, which measures 28m N-S x 27m E-W and is raised .7m on average above the surrounding ground level. On its uneven surface are approximately 100 uninscribed upright slabs; these average .3m high and most are aligned in NW-SE rows. There are similar grave-markers in the S portion of the graveyard, but these appear to be of more recent date. A small slab at the N end of the site bears a plain Latin cross on its NE face. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 993. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE063-008001 Cross-slab
  Description

  KE063-008---- is located in a narrow strip of pasture between the Behy river and Curra Wood. It is noted as an unenclosed children's burial ground in the OSNB (Glanbeagh, 45), but was in use as a formal graveyard for at least part of the twentieth century. Towards the centre of the site is an overgrown area, marked by holly and ash trees, which measures 28m N-S x 27m E-W and is raised .7m on average above the surrounding ground level. On its uneven surface are approximately 100 uninscribed upright slabs; these average .3m high and most are aligned in NW-SE rows. There are similar grave-markers in the S portion of the graveyard, but these appear to be of more recent date. A small slab at the N end of the site bears a plain Latin cross on its NE face. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 993. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE063-029 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  On the top of the E end of a heather-covered ridge, overlooking Glenbeigh to the E and with excellent views in all directions. A roughly circular cairn (12m N-S; 11.2m E-W; H 1m), comprised of loose stones of various sizes. It has a circular depression (diam. c. 3.2m; D c. 0.5m) outlined by rough stones, some of which are laid horizontally up to three courses high. This feature appears to be a shelter built in recent times by hillwalkers. Large slabs, which were noted along the perimeter of the cairn, appear to have slipped outwards, especially along the SW arc. 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 Curra.

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 Curra, about 1 in 5 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 Curra.

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

Name

Curra

Area

1,030,924 m² (103.09 ha, 254.75 acres)

Civil parish

Glanbehy, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Glanbehy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,269 people lived in 465 households in the Glanbehy electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 39% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolroe Lower, Drom, Faha, Gowlane, Kilnabrack Upper

Placenames

Curra 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.