# Curra, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Glanbehy, barony of Iveragh, Co. Kerry.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,030,924 m² (103.09 ha, 254.75 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,388 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Glanbehy, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/glanbehy.md
- Barony: Iveragh
- Electoral division: Glanbehy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/22284
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 70939
- Centre: latitude 52.046923, longitude -9.95951 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curra, from 555 m² to 450,629 m² (45.06 ha, 111.35 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1228425: 450,629 m² (45.06 ha, 111.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1228425.md
- Parcel 1156496: 70,766 m² (7.08 ha, 17.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1156496.md
- Parcel 1184665: 21,533 m² (2.15 ha, 5.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1184665.md
- Parcel 1158058: 15,750 m² (1.58 ha, 3.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1158058.md
- Parcel 1219021: 14,351 m² (1.44 ha, 3.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1219021.md
- Parcel 1157420: 13,569 m² (1.36 ha, 3.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1157420.md
- Parcel 1138184: 3,509 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1138184.md
- Parcel 1190151: 2,388 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1190151.md
- Parcel 1193794: 2,097 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1193794.md
- Parcel 1197320: 1,557 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1197320.md
- Parcel 5090063: 1,327 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5090063.md
- Parcel 1208914: 1,186 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1208914.md
- Parcel 1222927: 956 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1222927.md
- Parcel 1160408: 881 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1160408.md
- Parcel 1177953: 555 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1177953.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

No planning application touches the townland of Curra in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- KE063-007: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE063-007----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE063-008----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE063-008001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE063-029----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/curra.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/curra.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/curra.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Curra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Coolroe Lower: https://everytownland.com/kerry/coolroe-lower.md
- Drom: https://everytownland.com/kerry/drom-71126.md
- Faha: https://everytownland.com/kerry/faha-71256.md
- Gowlane: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gowlane-71583.md
- Kilnabrack Upper: https://everytownland.com/kerry/kilnabrack-upper.md

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.

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Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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