Knockauncurragh

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockauncurragh, from 283 m² to 3,396,715 m² (339.67 ha, 839.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Knockauncurragh 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.

• 13 Jun 2025Conditional

  Planning Permission to Construct a material Storage Shed with all associated site works at Kilmeany, Listowel, Co. Kerry.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560511

• 29 Nov 2017Conditional

  CONTINUE USE OF EXISTING WIND FARM GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 06/1489 AND 06/91489 FOR A FURTHER PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS TO EXTEND THE OPERATIONAL LIFE OF THE EXISTING WIND FARM FROM 20 TO 25 YEARS. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE PLANNING AUTHORITY WITH THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 171193

• 2 May 2007Refused

  Windfarm development consisting of 7 no. wind turbines and ancillary access tracks as part of over all development of 18 no. wind turbines (7 no. in Cork and 11 no. in Kerry) with a maximum rotor diameter of 90m, maximum hub height of 90m and all associated site works and services

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7471

• 3 Nov 2006Refused

  Complete construction of wind energy development of 20 no. wind turbines granted under pl. ref. no. 00/6084

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 06/12001

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
• Natural Heritage Area: Mount Eagle Bogs NHA 002449

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockauncurragh.

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Knockauncurragh

Area

6,929,457 m² (692.95 ha, 1,712.31 acres)

Civil parish

Ballincuslane, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Mount Eagle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mount Eagle electoral division: 174 people in 66 households; 92% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappaphaudeen (Co. Cork), Cloghvoula (Co. Cork), Coollegrean, Coom, Glanowen, Muinganine (Co. Cork), Tooreennascarty

Placenames

Knockauncurragh 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.