Currabeg

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Currabeg, from 283 m² to 330,536 m² (33.05 ha, 81.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Currabeg 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.

• 14 Dec 2022Conditional

  (1) RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AS CONSTRUCTED WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES, (2) PERMISSION FOR (A) RENOVATE EXISTING DWELLING, (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A VERANDAH TO THE FRONT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, (C) ELEVATIONAL CHANGES, (D) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221304

• 5 Apr 2022Conditional

  (A) RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING, GARAGE AND SITE LAYOUT AS-BUILT ALL WHITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES AND (B) PERMISSION TO REPLACE EXISTING REAR SUNROOM WITH NEW SUNROOM EXTENSION, INSTALL 3 ADDITIONAL ROOF WINDOWS AND CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO FACILIATE THIS DEVELOPMENT

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22358

• 3 Oct 2019Conditional

  RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND TIMBER POST AND RAIL ROADSIDE FENCE WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191024

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 Currabeg.

Recorded monuments

• KE093-074 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough pasture, on a level area with outcropping rock overlooking Kenmare Bay to the W. The remains of an oval enclosure (4m E-W; 3m N-S) defined by a roughly built drystone wall (T c. 0.4m; H 0.9m) constructed on a base of large stones. The enclosure is densely overgrown with ferns. It is indicated as an enclosed rectangular area on the 1895 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

• KE093-082 Hut site
  Description

  In pasture, at the base of a steep W-facing slope overlooking Kenmare Bay. The remains of a circular hut site (diam. 3.6m) defined by a grass-covered bank (Wth c. 0.6m; H 1.1m) of earth and stone. The E side of the hut site is cut into the hillslope and a number of upright slabs (H 1.1m) are used to retain the scarp. A sight break at WNW may indicate the entrance location. 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 Currabeg.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Currabeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Currabeg · An Chora Bheag

Area

1,839,454 m² (183.95 ha, 454.54 acres)

Civil parish

Kenmare, and its townlands

Barony

Glanarought

Electoral division

Cappagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cappagh electoral division: 404 people in 149 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derrylahan, Doughill, Dromatouk, Gearhadiveen, Gortalinny South, Kilgortaree, Lackaroe

Placenames

Currabeg 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.