# Affouley, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Galey, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Athbhuaile. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 569,666 m² (56.97 ha, 140.77 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,907 m² (1.09 ha, 2.7 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Galey, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/galey.md - Barony: Iraghticonnor - Electoral division: Gunsborough, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23964 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 70008 - Centre: latitude 52.472784, longitude -9.55673 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Affouley, from 74 m² to 124,911 m² (12.49 ha, 30.87 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1230514: 124,911 m² (12.49 ha, 30.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1230514.md - Parcel 1218416: 54,066 m² (5.41 ha, 13.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1218416.md - Parcel 4115186: 47,032 m² (4.7 ha, 11.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4115186.md - Parcel 1239938: 40,523 m² (4.05 ha, 10.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1239938.md - Parcel 1225116: 36,160 m² (3.62 ha, 8.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1225116.md - Parcel 1151602: 35,876 m² (3.59 ha, 8.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1151602.md - Parcel 1193580: 34,233 m² (3.42 ha, 8.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1193580.md - Parcel 1229526: 30,926 m² (3.09 ha, 7.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1229526.md - Parcel 1228613: 30,512 m² (3.05 ha, 7.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1228613.md - Parcel 4115185: 23,744 m² (2.37 ha, 5.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4115185.md - Parcel 1234503: 19,242 m² (1.92 ha, 4.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1234503.md - Parcel 1220628: 18,856 m² (1.89 ha, 4.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1220628.md - Parcel 1184492: 18,778 m² (1.88 ha, 4.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1184492.md - Parcel 1210896: 11,393 m² (1.14 ha, 2.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1210896.md - Parcel 1220157: 10,907 m² (1.09 ha, 2.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1220157.md - Parcel 6100864: 6,386 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6100864.md - Parcel 1207911: 6,229 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1207911.md - Parcel 4115330: 3,836 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4115330.md - Parcel 4115321: 3,640 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4115321.md - Parcel 1182311: 3,050 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1182311.md - Parcel 1222527: 2,762 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1222527.md - Parcel 1237941: 1,679 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1237941.md - Parcel 4115197: 1,059 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4115197.md - Parcel 4115202: 1,028 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4115202.md - Parcel 1213171: 743 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1213171.md - Parcel 1234669: 434 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1234669.md - Parcel 1237168: 407 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1237168.md - Parcel 1240347: 402 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1240347.md - Parcel 4115329: 74 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4115329.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 14 Nov 2025, Kerry County Council 2561056: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561056/0 - 17 Feb 2025, Kerry County Council 2560093: Refused. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560093/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Affouley. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE010-015: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE010-015----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Affouley. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/affouley.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/affouley.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/affouley.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Affouley with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballydonohoe: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballydonohoe.md - Ballyegan: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballyegan-70237.md - Inch East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/inch-east-71631.md - Inch West: https://everytownland.com/kerry/inch-west-71633.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/affouley - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/affouley