Ahaneboy
Ahaneboy is a townland in the civil parish of Castleisland, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Áthán Buí.
- Area
- 626.5 ha
- 1,548 acres
- Land parcels
- 120
- registered freehold, median 8,946 m² (0.89 ha, 2.21 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
120 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ahaneboy, from 10 m² to 718,689 m² (71.87 ha, 177.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 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
No zone of a development plan covers Ahaneboy 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 Aug 2023Conditional
TO ALTER AND EXTEND EXISTING WAREHOUSING FACILITY WITH ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 23914
29 Sept 2021Conditional
(I) RETAIN QUARRY RUN FILL MATERIAL AND (II) PERMMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A FRONT BOUNDARY WALL
Retention · Kerry County Council, 211104
8 Jun 2021Refused
(I) RETAIN SITE FILL MATERIAL AND (II) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21621
10 Jun 2019Conditional
RETAIN EXTENSIONS TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF THE EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19598
24 Jul 2018N/a
RETAIN EXTENSIONS TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF THE EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND TO RETAIN THE DWELLING WITHIN REVISED BOUNDARIES
Retention · Kerry County Council, 18735
28 Jun 2017Conditional
(1) ALTER AND EXTEND EXISTING AMBIENT STORAGE FACILITY AND (2) RETAIN EXISTING REPACKAGING EXTENSION AND AMBIENT/COLD STORAGE EXTENSION WITH ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO PREVIOUS PLANNING REG 08/2366 ALL WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS FACILITY ALL WITH ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Kerry County Council, 17613
7 Jun 2017Conditional
RETAIN EXISTING BUNGALOW DWELLING HOUSE AND ADJACENT GARAGE
Retention · Kerry County Council, 17535
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
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
- KE031-012 Fulacht fia
Description
This record was formerly classed as a 'fulacht fiadh' in both the SMR (1990) and the RMP (1997). The monument is described by the 'Castleisland District Archaeological Survey' - March 1990 - as a 'mound of black earth and burnt stone' which had been levelled by the landowner in 1966 (SMR file)
- KE031-013 Fulacht fia
Description
This record was formerly classed as a 'fulacht fiadh' in both the SMR (1990) and the RMP (1997). The monument is described by the 'Castleisland District Archaeological Survey' - March 1990 - as a 'mound of burnt stone' which had been levelled by the landowner in 1966 (SMR file).
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ahaneboy.
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 Ahaneboy, 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 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 Ahaneboy.
- 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 Ahaneboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Ahaneboy · Áthán Buí
- Area
- 6,265,050 m² (626.51 ha, 1,548.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleisland, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Knocknagashel, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 733 people lived in 291 households in the Knocknagashel electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Crinny West, Dooneen, Fahaduff, Knockaunatee, Meenleitrim South, Tooreenard, Tooreenmore
- Placenames
- Ahaneboy 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.