Curravoola

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curravoola, from 635 m² to 1,567,046 m² (156.7 ha, 387.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Curravoola 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 Curravoola 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: 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

• KE081-044 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on a NE-facing slope overlooking Coombaha Lough. A horseshoe-shaped mound (11.5m E-W; 6m N-S; H 1.9m) of burnt material on the S bank of a stream. The opening (2m E-W; 1.2m N-S) faces N. Mound material is being eroded by the stream. 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

• KE081-045001 Hut site
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on the lower N-facing slopes of Knockmoyle Mountain. The remains of an oval hut site (2.7m E-W; 2.2m N-S) defined by the lower courses of a roughly constructed, collapsed, drystone wall (T 0.5m; H 0.9m). Rubble obscures the level interior and is scattered along the perimeter. There is an enclosure (KE081-045002-) c. 30m to the W. 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

• KE081-045002 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on the N edge of a terrace on the lower N-facing slopes of Knockmoyle Mountain. An oval area (12m E-W; 5m N-S) defined by a moss-covered, collapsed drystone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.45m) which protrudes above the surface of the surrounding shallow bog. Large stones are visible in the lower courses. There is a hut site (KE081-045001-) c. 30m to the E. 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

• KE081-051 Hut site
  Description

  In rough rush-covered hill grazing on bog on an E-W ridge overlooking the valley of the Inny River. A circular hut site (3.7m E-W; 3.6m N-S) defined by the jumbled remains of a collapsed stone wall (T 1m; H 0.6m). The wall displays traces of an inner and outer row of contiguous slabs with an infill of stones of various sizes. Rubble is scattered in the interior and along the perimeter of the hut site. A break (Wth 0.4m) at N may indicate an entrance. An enclosure (KE081-052----) adjoins the hut site at SW. 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

• KE081-052 Enclosure
  Description

  In hill grazing, on an E-W ridge overlooking the valley of the Inny River. An oval area (7.6m E-W; 5m N-S) defined by the roughly built lower courses of a stone wall (T 0.7m; H 0.7m). Rubble from the collapsed upper courses of the wall is strewn in the interior and along the perimeter externally. A hut site (KE081-051----) adjoins the enclosure at NE and a relict field boundary (KE081-050----) is in the immediate vicinity to the N. 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 Curravoola.

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, moderately low (inferred), low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Curravoola · An Chorrbhuaile

Area

7,009,463 m² (700.95 ha, 1,732.08 acres)

Civil parish

Dromod, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Derriana, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Cloon West, Coomavoher, Coombaha, Coomura, Derryleagh, Derrynagree, Fermoyle, Lettergarriv, Lissatinnig, Maulnabrack

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Curravoola 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.