Alohart

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Alohart, from 414 m² to 305,197 m² (30.52 ha, 75.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Alohart 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.

• 8 May 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 23510

• 22 Dec 2022Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND SHED AS CONSTRUCTED WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221342

• 12 Dec 2018Conditional

  RENOVATE AND EXTEND OUR EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCT A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 181216

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE073-005 Hut site
  Description

  In rough upland pasture, on the edge of a terrace on the N-facing slopes of the Macgillycuddy's Reeks. The remains of an oval hut site (5.2m E-W; 2.8m N-S) defined by the vertical face of outcropping rock (H 1.3m) SE-SW and by a collapsing drystone wall (T 0.6m; H 1.1m) SW-SE, which narrows as it rises. There is a collapsed entrance at the E. Another hut site (KE073-005001-) lies c. 8m to the S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE073-005001 Hut site
  Description

  In rough upland pasture, on a terrace on the N-facing slopes of the Macgillycuddy's Reeks. The remains of a circular hut site (diam. 2m) defined by a partially grass-covered, collapsed, drystone wall (T 0.65m; H 0.3m) which protrudes above the surface of the bog. Rubble from the collapsed upper courses of the wall is randomly scattered around the hut site. Another hut site (KE073-005----) is c. 8m to the N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Alohart, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Alohart · Áth Lóthart

Area

3,252,113 m² (325.21 ha, 803.61 acres)

Civil parish

Knockane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron North

Electoral division

Churchtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

498 people lived in 174 households in the Churchtown electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carhoonahone, Coolcummisk, Derrycarna, Dunloe Upper, Gortboy, Meallis

Placenames

Alohart 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.