Knockacurrane
Townland in the civil parish of Stradbally, barony of Corkaguiny, Co. Kerry; in Irish Cnoc an Chorráin
- Area
- 48.1 ha
- 119 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 117,049 m² (11.7 ha, 28.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockacurrane, from 42,725 m² (4.27 ha, 10.56 acres) to 203,896 m² (20.39 ha, 50.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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
No zone of a development plan covers Knockacurrane 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
9 Aug 2023Conditional
Retention permission to (a) retain existing site entrance, (b) retain the attic storage and associated first floor gable window and roof light, (c) to retain additional window, glazed porch and additional annexed storage space (d) to retain 2no. garden sheds, and (e) retention permission to retain the existing dwelling and all of the above within revised site boundaries, and Permission to (f) construct a family unit extension with minor renovations to the existing dwelling, (g) decommission the existing septic tank system and install a new replacement mechanical wastewater treatment unit followed by a polishing filter and all ancillary site works.
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360081
21 Apr 2023Conditional
RETAIN (A) THE EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO (A) EXTEND THE DOMESTIC SHED, (B) CONSTRUCT A GYM EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING AND (C) CONSTRUCT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23439
16 Nov 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT 2 NO. NEW TREATED WATER STORAGE TANKS, EACH OF WHICH WILL COMPRISE OF AN ABOVE GROUND 14.7M DIAMETER SINGLE-CELLED PRECAST CONCRETE TANK, ANCILLARY STRUCTURES COMPRISING 1 NO. PARTIALLY BURIED VALVE CHAMBER, 1 NO. DE-CHLORINATION SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED ABOVE-GROUND KIOSK, 1 NO. ABOVE GROUND TELEMETRY KIOSK, 1 NO. UNDERGROUND CONCRETE SCOUR CHAMBER, AND 1 NO. PUMPSTATION AND ABOVE GROUND KIOSK AND OTHER ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND PIPE-WORK AND CABLING, OVERFLOW OUTLET TO STRADBALLY STREAM, EXTENSION TO EXISTING HARD- SURFACED INTERNAL CIRCULATION AREA, FENCING, LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT HAS BEEN PREPARED IN RESPECT OF THE PLANNING APPLICATION
Permission · Kerry County Council, 201102
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: Mount Brandon SAC 000375
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockacurrane.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockacurrane.
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 5 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 Knockacurrane.
- 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 Knockacurrane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Knockacurrane · Cnoc an Chorráin
- Area
- 480,629 m² (48.06 ha, 118.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Stradbally, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corkaguiny
- Electoral division
- Stradbally, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Stradbally electoral division: 238 people in 86 households; 89% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughanna, Farrantooleen, Gowlane, Stradbally-Mountain
- Placenames
- Knockacurrane 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.