Curraghavaddra
Curraghavaddra is a townland in the civil parish of Durrus, barony of Bantry, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Currach an Mhadra.
Parcel 2169883
- Area
- 1,450 m²
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 188 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
- Curraghavaddra
Planning applications on this parcel
17 Feb 1998Conditional
Construction of extensions to dwelling & retention of domestic outbuildings
Permission · Cork County Council, 98/494
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 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 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.
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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.
- Area
- 78.9 ha
- 195 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 8,825 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghavaddra, from 1,105 m² to 207,707 m² (20.77 ha, 51.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 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 May 2011Unconditional
Dwelling and installation of mini-treatment system
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/275
10 Apr 2007Conditional
Elevational alterations and single storey extension to dwellinghouse currently under construction planning reg: 05/7083 and permission for detached domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/968
9 Jun 2006Conditional
Dwelling and installation of mini-treatment plant system
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1098
18 Apr 2006Incompleted application
Dwelling and installation of mini-treatment plant system
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/667
12 Dec 2005Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 05/9174
11 Nov 2005Conditional
Alterations and extensions to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8313
1 Nov 2005Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 05/8020
29 Sept 2005Conditional
One and half storey dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7083
7 Feb 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/604
1 Oct 2004Conditional
Alterations and extensions to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7414
16 Sept 2004Incompleted application
Alterations and extensions to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7036
18 Dec 2002Conditional
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 02/5630
11 Oct 2001New application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/5604
7 Sept 2001Refused
2 no. dwellings, domestic garages and waste water treatment systems
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 01/5044
18 May 1999Conditional
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/2563
17 Apr 1998Conditional
Refurbishment, ground floor extensions & first floor extension to ruined dwelling & installation of septic & percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 98/1578
17 Feb 1998Conditional
Construction of extensions to dwelling & retention of domestic outbuildings
Permission · Cork County Council, 98/494
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 Curraghavaddra.
Recorded monuments
- CO118-012 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, at cliff-edge, on SSE-facing slope overlooking Bantry Bay to N. Circular area (diam. 22.2m NE-SW) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.15m) NE->W, with external fosse (D 0.6m). Erosion has claimed NNW side of enclosure. Gap in bank to SE (Wth 1.8m). 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curraghavaddra.
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 Curraghavaddra, about 1 in 10 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 Curraghavaddra.
- 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 Curraghavaddra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Curraghavaddra · Currach an Mhadra
- Area
- 789,082 m² (78.91 ha, 194.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Durrus, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Bantry Rural, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boolteenagh, Coomkeen, Crottees, Rooska East
- Placenames
- Curraghavaddra 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.