Curraghatouk
Townland in the civil parish of Duagh, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish Currach an tSeabhaic
- Area
- 54.5 ha
- 135 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 37,059 m² (3.71 ha, 9.16 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghatouk, from 22 m² to 170,189 m² (17.02 ha, 42.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 45 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Abbeyfeale Local Area PLan 2023-2029, Limerick · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Semi-Natural Open Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Abbeyfeale Local Area PLan 2023-2029, Limerick · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Abbeyfeale Local Area PLan 2023-2029, Limerick · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Education and Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Abbeyfeale Local Area PLan 2023-2029, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Abbeyfeale Local Area PLan 2023-2029, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Jun 2024Conditional
the development that will consist of the construction of a two storey extension to the rear of private dwelling
Permission · Limerick County Council, 24233
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
- KE018-004 Ringfort - rath
Description
This circular enclosure is marked on the 1841-42 OS map and lies SE of a disused children's burial ground (KE018-003002-). It does not appear on the later edition map, and no surface trace survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 664. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curraghatouk.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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_3433 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Curraghatouk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Curraghatouk · Currach an tSeabhaic
- Area
- 545,155 m² (54.52 ha, 134.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Duagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Moynsha, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Moynsha electoral division: 493 people in 183 households; 93% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Abbeyfeale West (Co. Limerick), Ballynagraigue, Dromlegagh, Shanbally
- Placenames
- Curraghatouk 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.