Curragh

77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curragh, from 7 m² to 325,371 m² (32.54 ha, 80.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Curragh 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.

• 8 Jul 2025Conditional

  Full Planning Permission to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage along with connection to new wastewater treatment system and all associated site services.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560582

• 7 Apr 2025Conditional

  A) DEMOLISH THE EXISTING SHEDS AT REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE B) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW EXTENSION/CANOPY AREA AT THE FRONT AND ONTO THE SIDE AND REAR OF THE DWELLING HOUSE C) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A FAMILY FLAT EXTENSION AT REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE AND MODIFY ALTER THE EXISTING ROOMS TO INCORPORATING SAME WITH ALL INTERNAL ALTERATIONS WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2582

• 19 Mar 2025N/a

  INVALID APPLICTION

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2563

• 3 Sept 2024Conditional

  Construct a dwelling house and garage served by an effluent treatment tank and polishing filter and all ancillary services and areas

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460650

• 24 Aug 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22886

• 23 Sept 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DOMESTIC SHED

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20874

• 10 Jun 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED GRANNY FLAT, INSTALL MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER, THE WIDENING OF EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19596

• 19 Jun 2018Conditional

  (1) RETAIN EXISTING HOUSE WITH ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND (11) TO ADD FAMILY FLAT EXTENSIION WITH ATTIC STUDIO , TO THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE EXISTING HOUSE

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18603

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 Curragh.

Recorded monuments

• KE058-089 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, at the top of a NW-facing slope, to the rear of Curragh Lodge. An arc (C c. 38m) of earthen bank (Wth 7.65m; max. int. H 2m; max. ext. H 2.4m) SE-NW is the remains of a rath. According to local information, the bank along the N arc was pushed into the N sector of the interior during the construction of a farm shed immediately to the N. A large mound of earth now occupies the N sector of the interior. Farm buildings indicated on both the 1846 and 1894 OS 6-inch maps overlie the bank and interior at NE and E. Partial levelling of the top of the remaining bank occurs along the SSE and WNW arcs and material from the bank at SSE is piled up in the SE quadrant. Some material from the bank W-NW lies in a mound (H c. 0.5m) outside the bank at NW. There is a souterrain (KE058-089001-) in the N sector. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE058-089001 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (KE058-089----). According to the landowner, a mound in the N quadrant of the rath marks the location of a souterrain. This souterrain was covered by a millstone with a perforated centre and when it was removed some clay pipes were found in the chamber. These were subsequently returned to the souterrain and the millstone was replaced. There are no visible remains of this souterrain. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE058-441 Fulacht fia
  Description

  This potential feature was reported by Michael Connolly, County Archaeologist, Kerry County Council. It was identified by him during the course of an assessment of a 40 square mile area for the purpose of choosing a road route in 2000 to the north of Killarney. Reported to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as an extant fulacht fia. No potential feature depicted at this location upon OS historic mapping. Access not gained.

• KE058-447 Enclosure
  Description

  In improved wet pasture with gentle surface undulations. Reported to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as the low remains of a small enclosure. Low profile semi-circular, sunken area (dims. 14m N-S; 7m E-W) defined by an internal scarp S->NNW and the low profile remains of a levelled bank (overall Wth 5.85m; Wth at top 3.25m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.1m) NNW->N; truncated by townland boundary (long-axis N-S; Wth c. 2m) and land drain (D c. 1.2m) across eastern portion. Interior is grass covered and slightly sunken. No trace of monument could be seen to E of boundary due to dense vegetation. No potential feature depicted at this location upon OS historic mapping. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 13 January 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_171 (ZIP).

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

Name

Curragh · An Currach

Area

1,239,377 m² (123.94 ha, 306.26 acres)

Civil parish

Aghadoe, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Aghadoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aghadoe electoral division: 870 people in 309 households; 82% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghacurreen, Barleymount East, Barleymount Middle, Barleymount West, Crohane, Gortaree, Knoppoge, Parkavonear

Placenames

Curragh 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.