Kilcurly

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcurly, from 4,230 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres) to 363,476 m² (36.35 ha, 89.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Kilcurly 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.

• 22 Sept 2025Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560958

• 5 Jun 2023Conditional

  the change of use of existing substandard dwelling to farm storage sheds and the construction of a new replacement dwelling, detached garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360383

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilcurly.

Recorded monuments

• LI022-121 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In lowlying undulating pasture immediately S of access road to dwelling, 140m E of townland boundary with Ballycahane Upper. Surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a slightly raised circular shaped area (26.5m N-S; 27.1m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (H 1m) and an external fosse (Wth 3.6m; D 0.6m) from NE to NW, with entrance ramp (Wth 3.5m) at SW. A post-1700 field boundary runs radially from S and relic field boundary wall intersects scarp at N. Interior is level, heavily overgrown on margins and on E side. Outline of monument is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/02/2020. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 6 August 2020

• LI022-125 Moated site
  Description

  In pasture, on slight S facing slope. Earthwork first identified by the Limerick Gas Pipeline (Curraleigh West Map 7, Site 7/10; SMR File). Surveyed by ASI in 2000 and described as sub-rectangular shaped area (28m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.5m) visible from SSE-S-W-NW, levelled from NW-N-ENE, traces of an external fosse (base Wth 1.8m; ext. H 0.2m) from SSE-S-W-NW. The NW and SW corners are extended and raised 0.5m above the interior. Field boundary (a mix of drystone wall and earth and stone bank) runs along edge of interior ENE-E-S-SSE. Interior is level, dry and clear of overgrowth and level with external ground level on N side. Monument is visible on the Google Earth orthoimages taken 2020. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 7 August 2020

• LI022-127 Enclosure
  Description

  In gentle undulating pasture on a slight S facing slope, with poor views in all directions, 74m N of townland boundary with Ballymartin, an enclosure (LI022-163----) lies 174m to SE. Surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. 11.5m) enclosed by scarp (Wth 2.1m; D 0.45m), the interior is level and clear of overgrowth. Field clearance material dumped at WSW-W-N forms a low bank, rubble also dumped at external face of scarp at NE. Relic stone wall field boundaries (H 0.4m) depicted on the OS historical maps visible at E-S-ESE and N-NE. Upstanding possible enclosure visible on the Google Earth orthoimage taken 2018. Uncertain antiquity may be just the remains of a small field depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map that was partially levelled. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 7 August 2020

• LI022-163 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating pasture on slight W-facing slope. Not depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map or the 1897 OS 25-inch map. Identified from an examination of aerial photographs of the region during work on the Curraleigh–Limerick gas pipeline in 1986 (BGE 1:10000 No. 41). No visible trace when visited by the ASI in 2000. No enclosure visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 11 August 2020

• LI022-164 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating pasture on gentle E facing slope. Not depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map or the 1897 OS 25-inch map. Identified from an examination of aerial photographs of the region during work on the Curraleigh–Limerick gas pipeline in 1986 (BGE 1:10000 No. 41). No visible trace when visited by the ASI in 2000. No enclosure visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 11 August 2020

• LI022-165 Enclosure
  Description

  In level pasture with moderate views in all directions. Not depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map or the 1897 OS 25-inch map. Identified from an examination of aerial photographs of the region during work on the Curraleigh–Limerick gas pipeline in 1986 (BGE 1:10000 No. 40). Surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a raised circular shaped area (10m N-S; 14m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 3.8m; H 0.5m) best preserved from E-SSE and SSW-NW and almost flattened from SSE-SSW. The undulating interior is clear of growth. Outline of monument clearly visible on OSi aerial image taken 2005-12 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 16/03/2016. See attached sketch plan drawn by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 11 August 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Kilcurly.

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 Kilcurly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Kilcurly · Cill Choireallaigh

Area

968,836 m² (96.88 ha, 239.4 acres)

Civil parish

Monasteranenagh, and its townlands

Barony

Pubblebrien

Electoral division

Kilpeacon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilpeacon electoral division: 561 people in 192 households; 94% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycahane Upper, Ballymartin, Kilderry, Kildonnell, Maryville, Parkaree

Placenames

Kilcurly 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.