Curracullenagh

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curracullenagh, from 19 m² to 2,430,558 m² (243.06 ha, 600.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Curracullenagh 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 Curracullenagh 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Mish Mountains SAC 002185

Recorded monuments

• KE037-040 Church
  Description

  An Seana-theampall: This is locally reputed to be the site of a church and it is so named on the OS maps. However, An Seabhac referred to it as a ceallúnach burial ground. Neither of these classifications is supported by the present form of the site which appears to be simply a natural, wooded hollow, a maximum of 3m deep. It does not appear to have changed much since the early 19th century when it was described as 'a hole about 6 feet (1.8m) deep and 12 (3.65m) in diameter'. A fragment of a building was previously noted at the inner end of the hollow and it was suggested that the site may have been a destroyed ringfort and souterrain (Browne, Armstrong and Macalister 1911, 50). Such conflicting evidence makes it impossible to classify the site with certainty. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 971. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE037-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 28m N-S, 20.2m E-W A univallate rath situated in an elevated position on the E slopes of the valley of the Finglas river. A small river flows W about 50m N of the site. The oval interior slopes gently downhill to W and is enclosed by an earthen bank up to 1.8m high externally and 1.3m internally. The latter has been levelled in the SSW sector and a field fence skirts the enclosure here immediately outside the line of the bank. At NE a 4.8m long stretch of the inner face is revetted with drystone walling which stands to a height of 1.1m. A number of small stones visible elsewhere along the bank suggest that the facing may formerly have been more extensive. Six breaks through the E half of the bank are probably secondary. A 4m wide gap at NNW probably marks the original entrance. The former presence of an external fosse is suggested by a slight depression skirting the outer edge of the bank and by the presence of a large number of Yellow Flags (Iris pseudacirus) growing in a 3.5m wide band outside the bank. A 5.5m wide break in the band, outside the entrance at NNW, may indicate the location of a causeway across the fosse. The interior is occupied by a series of cultivation ridges. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 376. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 6 August 2013

• KE037-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 27.5m This univallate rath is situated on a steep NW facing slope on the E side of the valley of the Finglas river. It commands an excellent view over the entire valley and through the valley entrance as far as Tralee Bay and the Magharees Peninsula. Though constructed on a steep slope, the interior is relatively level, having been scarped up on the downslope side. The condition of the enclosing bank and fosse varies considerably. The bank survives well along most of the E half, from S to NE, where it is c. 3.5m wide at base and a maximum of 1.9m high internally and 1.2m externally. A short stretch of drystone masonry adheres to the inner face of the bank at ENE. In the NNE and NNW sectors the bank has been considerably disturbed by the cultivation ridges which occupy the interior and the internal height is only very slight. In the W quadrant the bank has been levelled, but the outline of the enclosure is indicated by a 2m high drop from the interior to the external ground level. In the SSW sector a low, narrow bank, 1.75m wide and .6m high, encloses the site. This is faced internally and externally with rough drystone walling and is markedly different from the remainder of the bank; it is probably relatively modern though it may follow the line of the original bank. The fosse is present around the E half of the site only and is 2.75 to 3m wide and up to 1.2m deep. No clearly defined entrance is preserved; 2 narrow breaks at NE may simply be animal tracks. A low earthen bank, which follows the curve of the ringfort bank in the SW quadrant, at a distance of c. 4m, appears to be the remains of an old field fence. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 375. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 6 August 2013

• KE037-046 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  This is probably the site of the destroyed cashel recorded by Browne et al (1911, 47). It consists of an ill-defined level platform, on the otherwise steeply sloping E side of Glenfais. It measures roughly 18m in maximum dimension, and its downslope side is enclosed by a stony bank, up to 1.5m high, which may represent the remains of the cashel wall. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 557. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Curracullenagh · Currach Cuileannach

Area

3,499,340 m² (349.93 ha, 864.71 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgobban, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaguiny

Electoral division

Kilgobban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilgobban electoral division: 297 people in 119 households; 84% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyarkane Oughter, Beheenagh, Commons, Derrymore West, Glandine, Gortaleen-Mountain, Kilteenbane

Placenames

Curracullenagh 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.