Affouley

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Affouley, from 74 m² to 124,911 m² (12.49 ha, 30.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Affouley 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.

• 14 Nov 2025Refused

  construct an outdoor activity centre comprising of a modular welfare building with office space and toilet / changing facilities, car parking, storage containers and canopies, an outdoor activity area, a new wastewater treatment system, upgrading of existing access, fencing and all associated site works necessary to facilitate the development

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561056

• 17 Feb 2025Refused

  permission to construct an outdoor activity centre comprising of a modular welfare building with office space and toilet / changing facilities, car parking, storage containers and canopies, an outdoor activity area, a new wastewater treatment system, upgrading of existing access, fencing and all associated site works necessary to facilitate the development at Inch East, Lisselton, Co. Kerry.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560093

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 Affouley.

Recorded monuments

• KE010-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 27m N-S, 26m E-W Situated in low-lying land, this univallate rath has been much levelled and is barely perceptible today. It consists of a circular area enclosed by a low, 8m- 9m wide earthen bank and external fosse. The bank rises to a height of .5m. The fosse is very shallow, c2m wide and .6m below the height of the surrounding land. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 374. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Affouley, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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 Affouley with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Affouley · An Athbhuaile

Area

569,666 m² (56.97 ha, 140.77 acres)

Civil parish

Galey, and its townlands

Barony

Iraghticonnor

Electoral division

Gunsborough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

369 people lived in 144 households in the Gunsborough electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydonohoe, Ballyegan, Inch East, Inch West

Placenames

Affouley 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.