Curraheen

Area

51,483 m² (5.15 ha, 12.72 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Curraheen

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.

• LI012-001001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Westropp (1906-07, 159-60) recorded the following details about Shanpallas Castle; 'O'Donovan regards this as the C[astle]. of Caenraige of the Annalists. If so, and Castletown be not intended - 1573 Gerald, Earl of Desmond, on his removal from the Tower of London to Dublin, escaped on St. Patrick's Day, and in three days reached his own lands, expelled the English from the C[astle]. of Caenraige, and next year made terms with the Government and surrendered the C[astle]. (A.F.M.). 1583 Gerald mac Thomas held the C[astle]. of Pallace in Kenryherrowe (Des. R., 33b). 1638 Garrett Eitzgerald held it at his death from G., Earl of Kildare, as part of Adare Manor. 1650 Sir H. Waller took and dismantled Pallas C[astle]. It was eventually granted to the Duke of York. "Castlepallace, alias Knocktershane, or Shanpalse (Trustee Maps, 6, 38). 1703 Sold to John Bury, ancestor of the Lords Charleville." Fabric - A lofty tower on a rock, 20 feet [6m] high. Tradition connects it with the Earls of Desmond. The south wall, and about half of the sides, have fallen; the rest is fairly perfect, 16½ feet [5m] by 14 feet [4.2m] inside; the walls 6 feet [1.8m] thick and 60 feet [18m] high. It has five stories; the two lowest are under a vault. Near it is a "Court," [LI012-001002-] the walls 30 feet [9m] high and 5½ feet [1.7m] thick. Near the main tower is a round turret, with spiral stairs, leading to a sallyport near a pool. The outer wall encloses a bawn about 60 yards [55m] square (O.S.L., 8, p. 7)'. Shanpallas Castle was classified by Donnelly (1999, 37) as Type 1D which was characterised by castles where the 'entrance to the building is located in one of the tower house's long walls near a corner. The entrance lobby is set within the thickness of the long wall. There is no subsidiary chamber but on one side of the lobby is the doorway leading to a wall-stair that rises up through the thickness of the long wall to provide access to the first and/or second floor level in the building' (Donnelly 1999, 25). Castle and bawn described by Salter (2004, 95) as follows; 'On a rock beside a stream is the northern half of an 18m high tower measuring about 10.5m by 9m. The second of the five storeys was vaulted. The round turret with a staircase nearby is a relic of a bawn 18m square, now partly filled with farmbuildings. This castle of the earls of Desmond was captured by Sir Henry Waller for Cromwell in 1650'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 19 November 2020

• LI012-001002 Bawn
  Description

  Westropp (1906-07, 159-60) recorded the following details about Shanpallas Castle and bawn; 'A lofty tower [LI012-001001-] on a rock, 20 feet [6m] high. Tradition connects it with the Earls of Desmond. The south wall, and about half of the sides, have fallen; the rest is fairly perfect, 16½ feet [5m] by 14 feet [4.2m] inside; the walls 6 feet [1.8m] thick and 60 feet [18m] high. It has five stories; the two lowest are under a vault. Near it is a "Court," the walls 30 feet [9m] high and 5½ feet [1.7m] thick. Near the main tower is a round turret, with spiral stairs, leading to a sallyport near a pool. The outer wall encloses a bawn about 60 yards [55m] square (O.S.L., 8, p. 7)'. Castle and bawn described by Salter (2004, 95) as follows; 'On a rock beside a stream is the northern half of an 18m high tower measuring about 10.5m by 9m. The second of the five storeys was vaulted. The round turret with a staircase nearby is a relic of a bawn 18m square, now partly filled with farmbuildings. This castle of the earls of Desmond was captured by Sir Henry Waller for Cromwell in 1650'. Archaeological test excavations by Rory Sherlock under lincence No. 05E0829 was summarised as follows; 'Three parallel test-trenches, each 33m long, were excavated on the footprint of a proposed slatted shed. The site of the proposed development lies c. 25m from the outer bawn wall of Shanpallas Castle. No finds or features of archaeological interest were discovered during the testing' (www.excavations.ie). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 19 November 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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

At the centre of this parcel, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

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.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.