Ahaun

78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ahaun, from 339 m² to 424,359 m² (42.44 ha, 104.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Ahaun 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.

• 30 Apr 2025Conditional

  Planning Permission to (a) construct a dwelling house attached to an existing cottage (with part of the cottage being used by the new dwelling) and (b) change the use of the existing cottage to a dependent relative accommodation unit (c) slight changes to elevation of cottage (window to door) and (d) decommission the existing septic tank and install a mechanical treatment unit, polishing filter as well as all associated works.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560355

• 22 Oct 2021Conditional

  BUILD A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL SITE ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211205

• 16 Mar 2021Conditional

  (I) EXTEND EXISTING SLATTED LIVESTOCK HOUSE. EXTENSION TO INCORPORATE SLATTED TANK WITH EXTERNAL AGITATION POINT (II) EXTEND AN ADJACENT LIVESTOCK HOUSE (III) EXTEND DRY STORE/MACHINERY SHED (IV) INTSTALL AN UNDERGROUND CONCRETE PRE-CASE RAIN WATER HARVESTING TANK. THE ABOVE TO BE CARRIED OUT WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 21268

• 13 Mar 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTIC DEVELOPMENT, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, FRONT BOUNDARY ENTRANCE WALLS, MECHANICAL AERATION SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING UNIT WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20254

• 10 Jul 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, FRONT BOUNDARY WALLS, SERVED BY MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT, SOIL POLISHING FILTER, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17659

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ahaun.

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Ahaun.

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

Name

Ahaun · Áthán

Area

3,425,642 m² (342.56 ha, 846.49 acres)

Civil parish

Brosna, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Gneeves, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gneeves electoral division: 375 people in 149 households; 89% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Acres (Co. Limerick), Brosna East, Brosna West, Glantaunluskaha, Knockatooan (Co. Cork), Knockawinna, Meennaraheeny (Co. Cork)

Placenames

Ahaun 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.