Arabela

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Arabela, from 155 m² to 78,125 m² (7.81 ha, 19.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Arabela 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.

• 18 Dec 2018Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DRESSING ROOM AND STORAGE BUILDING (B) DEMOLISH THE EXISTING ROAD SIDE BOUNDARY WALL TO THE NORTHERN SIDE OF THE EXISTING ENTRANCE GATES TO ACCOMMODATE BUS PARKING (C) ERECT A PALISADE FENCE TO REINSTATE A ROAD SIDE BOUNDARY (D) REMOVE SOME EXISTING GREEN AREA TO PROVIDE FOR ON SITE PARKING (E) CONSTRUCT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 181243

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 Arabela.

Recorded monuments

• KE039-001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  The townland of Arabela was known in the medieval period as Ballymacelligott East and West, the present townland of Ballymacelligott is the adjacent townland to W, therefore Arabela was probably the townland marked Ballymacelligott East on the seventeenth century Down Survey map of Trughanacmy barony. Medieval castle and church of Ballymacelligott depicted on seventennth century map of County Kerry (http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#c=Kerry). Ballymacelligott Castle is depicted as a tower house type castle on the seventeenth century Down Survey map of Trughanacmy barony (Hib. Reg.). Annotated 'Site of McElligott's Castle on the 1841 ed. OS 6-inch map where it is depicted as a rectangular-shaped area outlined with a dotted line. Described in 1841 as follows; 'Bally Mac Elligot signifies the town of MacElligot, who was the ancient proprietor. The anonymous writers of a tract on the county of Kerry preserved in the MS Library of Trinity College, Dublin 1, speaks of this family as follows: Bally Mac Elligot distant to the east from Tralee about three miles has in it the ruins of some considerable castles [KE039-004----/KE030-016----], but it is chiefly remarkable for its name, which it takes from the MacElligots, a potent family in these parts descended from the MacClowds of the Isle of Skith in Scotland. They came into Ireland with Galfridus de Marisco, Justice of Ireland, and had formerly great possessions in this country. In the centre of the townland of Arrabella in this parish are the ruins of a castle called MacElligot's Castle. Nothing remains of it at present but traces of the foundations, and a portion of one wall thirty feet [10m] in length and about twelve feet [4m] in height at the south-east corner' (O'Donovan 1983, 64). McElligott's castle site described in 1987 by the Castleisland District Archaeological Survey as; 'extensive earthworks are visible which may indicate foundations with it. These appear to contain some stone. The overall length of the earthworks measures 65.4m N-S' (SMR file). Faint traces of a rectangular-shaped earthwork marking site of castle visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. See attached depiction of Ballymacelligott Castle taken from Down Survey map of Trughanacmy barony and castle and church shown on the map of County Kerry and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 May 2022

Architectural heritage

• Arabela House, house, 1750–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay two-storey over split-level basement mid-Georgian house, built c. 1760, with three-bay two-storey entrance bay to centre having limestone ashlar pedimented Doric doorcase, flanked by pair of three-bay two-storey bowed end bays. Three-bay three-storey rear elevation to north. Hipped slate roof with central valley, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystack with limestone cappings and having cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Painted rendered walls, partly ruled-and-lined with projecting eaves band. Timber two-over-two pane sliding sash windows with limestone sills. Limestone pedimented Doric doorcase having replacement timber door. Round-headed window at first floor of rear. Retaining interior features. Remains of farmyard complex, built c. 1800, to north about a courtyard. Courtyard comprising detached six-bay two-storey rubble stone-built range, now ruinous; detached three-bay single-storey rubble stone-built house, now ruinous and detached two-bay single-storey rubble stone-built outbuilding, now derelict. Gateway, built c. 1800, to south-west comprising pair of rusticated cut-stone piers with cast-iron gates.

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Arabela · Arabela

Area

623,554 m² (62.36 ha, 154.08 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacelligott, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Arabela, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,664 people lived in 466 households in the Arabela electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahane, Ballydwyer West, Ballymacelligott, Cahermore, Cloghermore, Coolnadead, Gortagullane, Gortshanvally

Placenames

Arabela 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.