Ankail

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ankail, from 30 m² to 1,276,108 m² (127.61 ha, 315.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Ankail 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.

• 14 Apr 2023Conditional

  RETAIN HOUSE AS BEING CONSTRUCTED AND PERMISSION TO COMPLETE HOUSE AND TO INSTALL AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND POLISHING FILTER

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23405

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 Ankail.

Recorded monuments

• KE100-015001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Ballynahaglish/Balie na hEaglaise: Located directly N of old Tahilla village and NW of Coongar Harbour, this site, which is still used as a burial ground (KE100-015003-), commands an excellent view of Kenmare Bay and the Beara Peninsula to S. It consists of a subcircular enclosure containing the site of a church and a souterrain. Enclosure: The area enclosed measures 44m N-S x 57.5m E-W. It is delimited by a bank of earth and stone which averages 4m in basal width and varies from 1.7m to 2.4m in external height. The bank is partly overgrown with trees and bushes and is intermittently faced with stone, both internally and externally. This facing appears to be relatively modern in date. A modern entrance to the site is located at S, and for much of its circumference the enclosure is skirted by a trackway. The interior of the site is raised above surrounding ground level and is flush with the top of the enclosing element at W. It features a number of modern tombs and headstones, as well as numerous uninscribed upright slabs. In its SE quadrant is a slab set on edge with a circular depression on its E face; this measures .35m in diameter and .15m deep. The slab stands .55m high and measures .72m long and .22m thick. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 924. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE100-015002 Church
  Description

  Church (KE100-015002-): A small rectangular church, marked 'in ruins' on the first edition of the OS map, was located close to the E boundary of the enclosure. Its longer axis was aligned roughly WNW-ESE. The church is marked only as ‘site of’ on the second edition. All that is now evident at this location is a rectangular depression, 5.5m N-S x 4.6m E-W, defined by a low stony bank. The bank averages 1.4m wide and stands to an external height of .5m at N. Burials occupy the interior of the depression. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 924. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE100-015003 Graveyard
  Description

  Ballynahaglish/Balie na hEaglaise: Located directly N of old Tahilla village and NW of Coongar Harbour, this site, which is still used as a burial ground (KE100-015003-), commands an excellent view of Kenmare Bay and the Beara Peninsula to S. It consists of a subcircular enclosure containing the site of a church and a souterrain. It features a number of modern tombs and headstones, as well as numerous uninscribed upright slabs. In its SE quadrant is a slab set on edge with a circular depression on its E face; this measures .35m in diameter and .15m deep. The slab stands .55m high and measures .72m long and .22m thick. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 924. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE100-015004 Tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This record was formerly classed as a 'tomb' in the SMR (1990) and the RMP (1997). However, there is no reference to this tomb in the Iveragh Peninsula Survey entry (For descriptive account see O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, 252, no. 924). The tomb is named on the 1895-6 OS 6-inch map. A field report in the SMR file describes the tomb as follows: 'abutting the bank at SE is a stone built tomb which contains no dates. It is drystone built aligned E-W on its long axis and is very overgrown and contains some skeletons. No date could be found on it.' It is likely to date to the post-1700 AD period. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE100-015005 Souterrain
  Description

  Souterrain (KE100-015005-): The IFC Schools' Collection records that the graveyard 'is full of subterranean channels'. At N, beside a tomb dated 1890, is a small opening, .4m x .4m, to an inaccessible souterrain. The opening provides a view of an apparently earth-tunnelled passage which extends to W. The entrance to a creepway is visible in the S wall of the passage. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 924. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE100-016 Enclosure
  Description

  This circular enclosure, marked on the first edition of the OS map, was located on the top of a low hill which affords excellent views in all directions. A series of N-S cultivation ridges (KE100-016001-) occupy this location and there is no visible trace of the enclosure. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 777. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE100-016001 Cultivation ridges
  Description

  A series of N-S cultivation ridges (KE100-016001-) occupy this location and there is no visible trace of the enclosure. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 777. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ankail · An Eing Chaol

Area

2,660,038 m² (266 ha, 657.31 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcrohane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron South

Electoral division

Tahilla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tahilla electoral division: 239 people in 91 households; 83% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 38% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brackloon, Derreenaclaurig, Derryquin, Gortagowan, Tahilla

Placenames

Ankail 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.