Aghanagran Upper

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghanagran Upper, from 139 m² to 174,756 m² (17.48 ha, 43.18 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 Aghanagran Upper 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.

• 2 Jul 2026Conditional

  Full planning permission to construct a new dwelling house, install a mechanical treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660612

• 12 Nov 2025Conditional

  (A) Retention Permission to retain existing concrete shed base as constructed and (B) full Planning Permission to construct and complete a shed on previously mentioned concrete base, which will be used for the storage of vintage cars and tractors and all necessary ancillary site works

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2561048

• 10 Feb 2023Conditional

  RENOVATE AND MAKE ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WHICH INCLUDE DEMOLISHING EXISTING REAR EXTENSION AND REPLACING EXISTING FRONT DOOR WITH A WINDOW AND ALSO TO ERECT A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SAME DWELLING HOUSE AND CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23126

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 Aghanagran Upper.

Recorded monuments

• KE002-057 Enclosure
  Description

  This site is situated on low-lying boggy land. It is marked on the 1841-42 and 1914 OS maps. However on the later edition the S to W enclosing bank has been incorporated into a fieldbank. Today this site is inaccessible, so a true picture is difficult to obtain. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1018. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Aghanagran Upper, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_198 (ZIP).

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

Name

Aghanagran Upper · Achadh na gCrann Uachtarach

Area

1,302,982 m² (130.3 ha, 321.97 acres)

Civil parish

Aghavallen, and its townlands

Barony

Iraghticonnor

Electoral division

Carrig, the unit of the census

Census 2022

374 people lived in 157 households in the Carrig electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghanagran Middle, Cloonaman, Gortard, Martara, Tullahennel North

Placenames

Aghanagran Upper 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.