Curraghgrane Beg
Curraghgrane Beg is a townland in the civil parish of Desert, barony of Ibane and Barryroe, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cruagharrán Beag.
Parcel 2144684
- Area
- 683 m²
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 426 m².
- 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
- Curraghgrane Beg
Planning applications on this parcel
2 May 2026Awaiting f.i. response
(i) permission for retention of building permitted under Planning Ref. No. 00/2039 which comprised of a retail unit on the ground floor and an apartment on the first floor, (ii) permission for change of use to one three-bed apartment and one two-bed apartment on both the ground and first floors, (iii) permission to convert the second floor into one two-bed apartment and one one-bed apartment, (iv) permission to include an internal staircase, plant room and bin store in this building, (v) permission for alterations to the elevations. All apartments will be for long-term letting.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/1152
18 Mar 2026Invalid - case closed
(i) Permission for retention of three-storey structure (change of plan to that permitted under Planning Ref. No. 00/2029), (ii) permission for change of use from the permitted retail unit on the ground floor to one three-bed apartment, one two-bed apartment, internal staircase, plant room and bin store, (iii) permission for change of use from the permitted one-bed apartment on the first floor to one three-bed apartment, one two-bed apartment and internal staircase, (iv) permission to convert the second area into one two-bed apartment and one one-bed apartments, (v) permission for alterations to the Elevations, all to an existing structure. All apartments will be for long term letting
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/0670
7 Apr 2000Conditional
Demolition of prefab building & construction of 4 no. dwellinghouses & shop unit with apartment over
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/2039
3 Mar 2000Conditional
Construction of 3 no. dwellinghouses & sewage treatment plant (change of layout) & retention of 1 no. dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/1178
16 Aug 1999New application
4 no. dwellinghouses & shop & demolition of pre-fab shop unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/4483
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
- 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in 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
- 27.2 ha
- 67 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 200 m²
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghgrane Beg, from 71 m² to 223,113 m² (22.31 ha, 55.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 9 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
16 Jun 2026Grant with conditions
The construction of an extension and modifications (modifications include change of windows to South-East elevation, new first floor window to south west elevation, new set of double doors and new window to North-West Elevation) to the existing dwelling, and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1602
27 May 2026Invalid - case closed
Permission for construction of an extension and modifications (modifications include change of windows to the South-East elevation, a new set of double doors and a new window to the North-West Elevation) of the existing dwelling, and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1409
2 May 2026Awaiting f.i. response
(i) permission for retention of building permitted under Planning Ref. No. 00/2039 which comprised of a retail unit on the ground floor and an apartment on the first floor, (ii) permission for change of use to one three-bed apartment and one two-bed apartment on both the ground and first floors, (iii) permission to convert the second floor into one two-bed apartment and one one-bed apartment, (iv) permission to include an internal staircase, plant room and bin store in this building, (v) permission for alterations to the elevations. All apartments will be for long-term letting.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/1152
18 Mar 2026Invalid - case closed
(i) Permission for retention of three-storey structure (change of plan to that permitted under Planning Ref. No. 00/2029), (ii) permission for change of use from the permitted retail unit on the ground floor to one three-bed apartment, one two-bed apartment, internal staircase, plant room and bin store, (iii) permission for change of use from the permitted one-bed apartment on the first floor to one three-bed apartment, one two-bed apartment and internal staircase, (iv) permission to convert the second area into one two-bed apartment and one one-bed apartments, (v) permission for alterations to the Elevations, all to an existing structure. All apartments will be for long term letting
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/0670
19 Sept 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to construct dwelling, domestic garage, install wastewater treatment system and for all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5984
7 Jul 2014Conditional permission
Installation of three number velux windows and solar panels to the front roof plane of existing dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/411
26 Jun 2014Incompleted application
Installation of three number velux windows and solar panels to front roof plane of existing dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/386
22 Mar 2006Conditional
(a) Retain attic conversion for storage/playroom use; (b) Retain existing velux to rear roof; (c) Install new velux to rear roof; (d) Install attic gable window to rear of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/479
19 May 2005Conditional
Alterations & extensions to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3383
29 May 2001New application
Construction of restaurant with living accomodation over
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/3016
7 Apr 2000Conditional
Demolition of prefab building & construction of 4 no. dwellinghouses & shop unit with apartment over
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/2039
3 Mar 2000Conditional
Construction of 3 no. dwellinghouses & sewage treatment plant (change of layout) & retention of 1 no. dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/1178
16 Aug 1999New application
4 no. dwellinghouses & shop & demolition of pre-fab shop unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/4483
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Clonakilty Bay SAC 000091
- Special Protection Area: Clonakilty Bay SPA 004081
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clonakilty Bay 000091
Recorded monuments
- CO135-058 Corn store
Description
Built on rough stone quay in Arundelmills inlet in Clonakilty Bay. Rectangular (42.9m NW-SE, 7.8m NE-SW), 10-bay, 2-storey (originally 3-storey), weatherslated ruin. Shell of grain drying kiln projects midway along NE wall. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
- Mill (water), 1780–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached multiple-bay mill, built c.1790, now ruinous. Central nine-bay two-storey block with two-bay two-storey block to front (east). Gable-fronted double-height block to front and single-storey addition to rear (west). Roofs absent with rubble stone gables to double-height and single-storey additions to front and rear elevations. Breaks to side (north, south) elevations of central block. Camber-headed window openings with stone sills and dressed rubble stone voussoirs throughout. Camber-headed carriageway to double-height block, having dressed rubble stone voussoirs.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Curraghgrane Beg, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Curraghgrane Beg.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Curraghgrane Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Curraghgrane Beg · Cruagharrán Beag
- Area
- 272,085 m² (27.21 ha, 67.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Desert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibane and Barryroe
- Electoral division
- Templeomalus, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 786 people lived in 271 households in the Templeomalus electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Arundelmills, Ashgrove, Ballintemple, Curraghgrane More
- Placenames
- Curraghgrane Beg 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.