Curraghturk

96 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghturk, from 11 m² to 309,713 m² (30.97 ha, 76.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Curraghturk 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.

• 29 Dec 2023Conditional

  construction of a cattle shed with slatted tank, straw storage shed, feed bin and ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23617

• 7 Oct 2020Conditional

  the construction of two and single storey extensions to the rear of our existing dwellinghouse, refurbishment and alterations of existing dwellinghouse including to increase the ridge height of the existing dwellinghouse, demolition of existing outbuildings, construction of domestic attached garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 201002

• 9 Sept 2019Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, septic tank & percolation area, new entrance, driveway, boundary alterations as may be required, associated site works as my be required

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19897

• 25 Jul 2019N/a

  construction of new dwelling house, septic tank & percolation area, new entrance, driveway, boundary alterations as may be required, associated site works as my be required

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19736

• 19 Mar 2019Conditional

  the construction of a dormer type extension to the existing dwelling house, refurbishment of existing dwelling house, demolition of existing outbuildings, construction of detached domestic garage, improvements to existing entrance and all associated site works including wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19251

• 19 Apr 2018Conditional

  replacing garage doors with two windows to the front elevation of the dwelling house for the purpose of converting garage to playroom (previous planning ref. 01/1980) & retention for the construction of domestic garage on the site of the dwelling house

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18377

• 8 Dec 2017Conditional

  a two storey dormer style extension to the rear of an existing dormer dwelling to include the re-location of vehicular site entrance and closure of existing access opening off the R513 regional road and upgrade of existing percolation area and associated development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 171151

• 16 Nov 2017Conditional

  the renovation and extension of an existing detached house. Works include an extension to front of dwelling, increasing the wall plate height for conversion of attic space, alterations to existing internal layout, modifications to all elevations, alterations to front boundary to relocate existing entrance, upgrade of existing wastewater treatment system, construction of a domestic garage & all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 171063

• 21 Apr 2017Conditional

  construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear of his dwelling to facilitate the provision of a granny flat in a part of the existing dwelling house demolition of an existing garden shed, installation of new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17351

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 Curraghturk.

Recorded monuments

• LI049-182 Church
  Description

  Westropp (1904-5, 454) recorded the following details about the site of Templeen Church situated on the summit of Curraghturk Hill; 'Perhaps Killane, on west border of Ballianlondry, 1657 (Petty, 74). Site - It was levelled before 1840'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 June 2019

• LI049-183 Earthwork
  Description

  In wet pasture at edge of conifer plantation and 40m S of a stream that marks the townland boundary with Ballylanders. Enclosure (LI049-184----) lies 200m to NE. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised roughly oval-shaped area (dims. c. 35m NW-SE; 20m NE-SW) defined by a scarp. Truncated at E by a field boundary running NW-SE. Monument is visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 21/06/2021. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 25 October 2021

• LI049-184 Enclosure
  Description

  In wet pasture at edge of conifer plantation and 60m S of a stream that marks the townland boundary with Ballylanders. Enclosure (LI049-183----) lies 200m to SW. Annotated 'Knockeenacartan' on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is shown as a circular enclosure. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised roughly oval-shaped area (dims. c. 40m NE-SW; 32m NW-SE) defined by a scarp and intersected at S by field boundary running E-W. Monument is visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 25 October 2021

• LI049-185 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In wet pasture, 50m N of a watercourse. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area (dims. c. 32m NW-SE; 28m NE-SW) defined by a scarp with an external fosse from S-N-E and an external bank from NW-N-E. Intersected at S by a field boundary running N-S that curves around monument from S-W-N-E. Intersected at E by field boundary running N-S. Outline of monument delimited by trees and bushes is visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 25 October 2021

• LI049-186 Earthwork
  Description

  At N end of a conifer plantation, immediately S of a stream that marks the townland boundary with Spittle. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified as a potential site on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/10,000; No. 0118) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 25 October 2021

• LI049-187 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In wet pasture immediately S of a conifer plantation. Annotated 'Parkalassa' and depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (dims. c. 27m NE-SW; 20m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank, topped from N- E-SE by a curving field boundary. Outline of overgrown monument is visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 25 October 2021

• LI049-188 Earthwork
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, 20m W of the townland boundary with Ballyfauskeen. Barrow (LI049-269----) lies 45m to SE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised, oval-shaped area (dims. c. 25m NW-SE; 19m NE-SW) defined by a scarp. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped area defined by a scarp with external fosse on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (341) 21) taken 05-01-2003. On Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019 there is also a possible external bank visible from W-N-NE and from SE-SW. Visible as a circular shaped cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage dated 21/06/2021. See oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (341) 21) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 19 October 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Curraghturk, about 1 in 20 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 Curraghturk.

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.

No address of the register names Curraghturk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Curraghturk · Currach Toirc

Area

3,232,038 m² (323.2 ha, 798.65 acres)

Civil parish

Ballylanders, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Ballylanders, the unit of the census

Census 2022

659 people lived in 257 households in the Ballylanders electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyduff, Ballyfauskeen, Ballylanders, Cullane North, Glennahaglish, Spittle

Placenames

Curraghturk 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.