Curraglass
Curraglass is a townland in the civil parish of Killaha, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Corra Glasa.
- Area
- 207.1 ha
- 512 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 3,698 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraglass, from 128 m² to 302,324 m² (30.23 ha, 74.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Curraglass 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Jun 2025Conditional
(a) construct an extension to the existing premises which will contain a new kitchen, entrance lobbies and internal layout changes (b) elevational changes including all ancillary services and areas
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560542
27 Feb 2025Conditional
Full planning permission to construct a new dwelling house with attached carport, detached garage, install a septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2560126
17 Apr 2023Conditional
RETAIN THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND STORAGE SHED ALL WIHTIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23411
24 Jun 2022Conditional
RETAIN WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND WORKSHOP AND PERMISSION TO DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND INSTALL A PACKAGED MECHANICAL AERATION EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND PACKAGED PEAT POLISHING FILTER MODULES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22665
3 Jul 2019Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH EXISITING DWELLING HOUSE, (B) TO CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19692
10 Apr 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING NATIONAL SCHOOL COMPRISING OF A MAINSTREAM CLASSROOM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19372
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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365
Recorded monuments
- KE075-032 Enclosure
Description
In commonage, on a NW-facing slope, abutting the E side of a field boundary. A trapezoidal area (4.45m N-S; 2.7m E-W) defined by a wall (H 0.8m) of earth and stone. There is an entrance (Wth 0.7m) at the E end of the S wall. The NE portion of the interior is raised (H 0.3m) and the SW portion is cut (D 0.3m) into the upslope to compensate for the hillslope. There are occasional furze and whitethorn bushes in the NE corner of the interior. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011
- KE075-037001 Fulacht fia
Description
In rough pasture, on the break of a NE-facing slope, c. 8m E of a stream. A horseshoe-shaped mound (12.6m N-S; 10.8m E-W; H 0.25m) with an opening (2.3m N-S) facing W. There is a farm road adjacent to the E. Another fulacht fia (KE075-037002-) is 5.4m to the S. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011
- KE075-037002 Fulacht fia
Description
In rough pasture, on the break of a NE-facing slope, with a stream c. 10m to the W. A horseshoe-shaped mound (19.5m N-S; c. 17m E-W; H 0.5m) with an opening (4.15m N-S) facing W. The mound is eroded at the E where it has been trampled by sheep accessing feeding-troughs. There is a mature tree adjacent to the NE and a farm road at E. Another fulacht fia (KE075-037001-) is 5.4m to the N. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curraglass.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Curraglass, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_292 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Curraglass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Curraglass · Corra Glasa
- Area
- 2,070,576 m² (207.06 ha, 511.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killaha, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Flesk, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 426 people lived in 157 households in the Flesk electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brewsterfield, Coracow, Curreal, Killaha, Rusheen Beg, Rusheen More, Shronaboy
- Placenames
- Curraglass 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.