Acres

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Acres, from 312 m² to 179,802 m² (17.98 ha, 44.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Acres 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.

• 24 Jun 2026N/a

  Retention Permission to (A) Retain the change of use of the first floor from storage to living accommodation, (B) Retain elevation alterations (C) Retain the domestic garage and shed as constructed

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660581

• 14 Dec 2021Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING AS CONSTRUCTED

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211442

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 Acres.

Recorded monuments

• KE048-232 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Reported to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as the low remains of a barrow. Scant remains of a pair of conjoined ring-ditches. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 2m) defined by barely traceable remains of a shallow fosse (Wth c. 1m; Dth c. 0.1m). Second ring-ditch (diam. c. 2m) defined by barely traceable remains of a shallow fosse (Wth c. 1m; Dth c. 0.1m) is located c. 1m to WSW. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 10 September 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Acres.

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.

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

Name

Acres

Area

310,646 m² (31.06 ha, 76.76 acres)

Civil parish

Aglish, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Rockfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rockfield electoral division: 427 people in 139 households; 86% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrack, Boolasallagh, Rusheen

Placenames

Acres 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.