Curraghbeg
Townland in the civil parish of Adare, barony of Kenry, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Currach Beag
Parcel 1663004
- Area
- 1,466 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 116 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- R2 Existing Residential (Adare Local Area Plan 2024-2030) The objective
- Townland
- Curraghbeg
Planning applications on this parcel
30 Dec 2020Conditional
the replacement of the existing pitch lighting with a new floodlighting system consisting of 8no. lighting columns, 18m high and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 201435
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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
- 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_780 (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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
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.
- Area
- 49.5 ha
- 122 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 2,315 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghbeg, from 125 m² to 100,597 m² (10.06 ha, 24.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Adare Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Limerick · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Adare Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Limerick · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Adare Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Limerick · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Adare Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Limerick · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
10 Nov 2025Conditional
change of opening hours 9.30 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. Monday to Friday only to new opening hours 9.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. Monday to Saturday and to retain signage
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2561153
12 Jun 2025Conditional
construction of 2 no. pre-cast concrete ball walls each 20 metres long x 5 metres high, and AstroTurf surface 71 metres x 20 metres, 5 no. 1200 watt floodlights 15 metres high, mounted on the existing ball net poles and associated site works on the existing park
Permission · Limerick County Council, 25184
18 Jun 2024Conditional
amendments to previously approved planning application ref: 21/474. The changes proposed include; reduced size extension moved to front of existing cottage, revised works to existing cottage, reduced shed size and domestic vehicle entrance changes and all associated site works. No changes are proposed to the agricultural entrance, wastewater treatment system and percolation system
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460607
22 Dec 2022Conditional
the construction of a sun room to the side of the house
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 221388
13 Jan 2022Conditional
change of use of an existing side residential entrance to agricultural/residential to allow access to lands to facilitate third party agricultural incidental use to visit the land on foot, jeep or car and/or for small agricultural equipment in connection with lands maintenance but not for passage of bulk deliveries to the lands. Planning permission is also sought for a new designated residential access, entrance gates, improvements to proposed access, and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2224
28 May 2021N/a
access to lands to facilitate for agricultural use where it is intended that this access will only be for incidental use to visit the land on foot, jeep or car and/or for small agricultural equipment in connection with lands maintenance but not for passage of bulk deliveries to the lands
Permission · Limerick County Council, 21739
13 Apr 2021Conditional
construction of an extension to existing dwelling house, new wastewater treatment system with percolation area, new agricultural entrance and new shed with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 21474
30 Dec 2020Conditional
the replacement of the existing pitch lighting with a new floodlighting system consisting of 8no. lighting columns, 18m high and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 201435
12 Nov 2020Conditional
construction of a new dwelling with three sheds, packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, splayed entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201161
2 Aug 2019Conditional
change of house type on site no. 9, The Heritage, Blackabbey Road, from that granted under planning reference no. 17/170, the application also includes the construction of a domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19764
26 Oct 2018Conditional
(a) demolition of single storey boiler house, (b) alterations to fenestration to front and rear elevations at ground and first floor levels and new porch canopy to front elevation, (c) construction of part single storey, part two storey extension to front, side (east) and rear, (d) new on-site waste water treatment system and polishing filter, (e) construction of detached single storey domestic garage, (f) blocking up of existing vehicular entrance and construction of new vehicular entrance in new location and (g) all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 181046
23 Feb 2017Conditional
9no. Serviced sites, storm water attenuation system, connection to Local Authority foul sewer, watermain with all associated landscaping and realignment of County Road L-1422-314, Permission for house type A to site no.'s 1,2,3,8 & 9, house type B to site no's 4,5 & 6 and house type C to site no. 7
Permission, 9 homes · Limerick County Council, 17170
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 Curraghbeg.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curraghbeg.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curraghbeg.
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 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_780 (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 Curraghbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Curraghbeg · An Currach Beag
- Area
- 495,156 m² (49.52 ha, 122.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Adare, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kenry
- Electoral division
- Adare North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Adare North electoral division: 617 people in 210 households; 85% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Adare, Blackabbey, Copay, Curraghbridge, Islandea, Kilknockan
- Placenames
- Curraghbeg 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.