Curraheen

262 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraheen, from 23 m² to 87,475 m² (8.75 ha, 21.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Curraheen 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.

• 17 Dec 2025Conditional

  to (a) construct a private farm complex consisting of 4no. agricultural buildings and a poly tunnel, (b) construct a new vehicular site entrance from the public road and (c) construct all associated site works.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561186

• 29 May 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCT 2 NUMBER SIDE EXTENSION AND MAKE ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO INCLUDE, RE-DESIGN A FRONT ENTRANCE DOOR, BLOCK UP EXISTING AND ADD NEW WINDOW/DOOR OPENINGS, ADD ROOF LIGHTS TO SERVE THE GROUND

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 25133

• 6 May 2025Refused

  The construction of a single storey structure as a permaculture and wellness facility together with sanitary accommodation , car parking and the installation of a wastewater treatment system as may be acceptable to the planning authority at Curaheen, Genbeigh, Co.Kerry.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560372

• 13 Jun 2024Conditional

  Retention Permission to Retain existing semi-detached dwellings within revised site boundaries

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460377

• 16 Sept 2022Refused

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY A WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT DISCHARGING INTO A SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22984

• 24 Jan 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY A WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT DISCHARGING INTO A SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALSO TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2247

• 13 Dec 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY HOUSE SERVED BY A WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT DISCHARGING INTO A SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALSO TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 211433

• 22 Jul 2021Conditional

  RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED THE EXISTING SUNLOUNGE ONTO THE EXISTING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21840

• 6 Nov 2019Conditional

  INSTALL A MECHANICAL AERATION TREATMENT UNIT WITH SAND POLISHING FILTER AND DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEEM, ALSO RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND OUTBUILDINGS AS CONSTRUCTED TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ALL WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191130

• 10 Jul 2019Conditional

  (1) RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE EXTENSION AS CONSTRUCTED, (2) CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE, (3) DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19720

• 3 Jul 2019Conditional

  TO CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION ONTO THEIR HOUSE AND TO DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND TO INSTALL A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND POLISHING FILTER AND RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN TWO VELUX ROOF LIGHTS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19690

• 27 Apr 2018Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE C/W SEPTIC TANK FOLLOWED BY 2 NO. PURAFLOW SECONDARY TREATMENT MODULES OVER A SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18386

• 3 Oct 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A HANDBALL COURT, PLAYGROUND AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 17984

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: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343
• Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Special Protection Area: Castlemaine Harbour SPA 004029
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Castlemaine Harbour 000343
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curraheen.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Curraheen, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

• Curraheen, Glenbeigh10 sales

Name

Curraheen · An Curraichín

Area

2,653,535 m² (265.35 ha, 655.7 acres)

Civil parish

Glanbehy, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Glanbehy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,269 people lived in 465 households in the Glanbehy electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 39% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintleave, Commaun, Curraheen Little, Kilnabrack Upper, Treangarriv, Treanmanagh

Placenames

Curraheen 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.