Curkacrone
Townland in the civil parish of Callan, barony of Callan, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish Corcach Chrón
- Area
- 18.2 ha
- 45 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 3,590 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curkacrone, from 292 m² to 84,482 m² (8.45 ha, 20.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Curkacrone 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
2 Aug 2024Conditional
for the renovation and extension at Monarche Commons, Callan, Co. Kilkenny, a Protected Structure (Ref: C827). To include the demolition of an existing flat roof extension to the rear of the thatched cottage and the construction of a new rear extension containing new sanitary facilities. The change of use and extension to an adjacent existing stone store to accommodate a home office and guest bedroom. The removal of a farm outbuilding. Solar panel array to existing outbuilding roof. A new waste water treatment system, to include all site and ancillary works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460369
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Curkacrone.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curkacrone.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curkacrone.
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 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_3420 (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 Curkacrone with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Curkacrone · Corcach Chrón
- Area
- 182,317 m² (18.23 ha, 45.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Callan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Callan
- Electoral division
- Callan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Callan Rural electoral division: 1,932 people in 628 households; 82% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Crossoge, Foulksrath, Kilbride Glebe, Monarche Commons, Slade
- Placenames
- Curkacrone 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.