# Ardbeg, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Stradbally, barony of Corkaguiny, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Ard Bheag.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 592,053 m² (59.21 ha, 146.3 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,359 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Stradbally, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/stradbally.md
- Barony: Corkaguiny
- Electoral division: Stradbally, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Stradbally electoral division: 238 people in 86 households; 89% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/22775
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 70066
- Centre: latitude 52.248304, longitude -10.067324 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardbeg, from 140 m² to 266,685 m² (26.67 ha, 65.9 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1140817: 266,685 m² (26.67 ha, 65.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1140817.md
- Parcel 1233584: 263,156 m² (26.32 ha, 65.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1233584.md
- Parcel 1207805: 37,868 m² (3.79 ha, 9.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1207805.md
- Parcel 1217738: 8,608 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1217738.md
- Parcel 1229720: 3,775 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1229720.md
- Parcel 1139654: 2,380 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1139654.md
- Parcel 1242819: 2,337 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1242819.md
- Parcel 1233772: 2,177 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1233772.md
- Parcel 1223194: 1,546 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1223194.md
- Parcel 1140056: 379 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1140056.md
- Parcel 1178341: 204 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1178341.md
- Parcel 1164337: 140 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1164337.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Ardbeg in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 9 Apr 2024, Kerry County Council 2460203: Conditional. Permission. Permission to construct agricultural shed consisting of cubicles & feeding area and underground slatted slurry storage tank to adjoin existing livestock shed and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460203/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Tralee Bay and Magharees Peninsula, West to Cloghane SAC, site code 002070, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002070
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tralee Bay And Magharees Peninsula, West To Cloghane, site code 002070

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- KE035-018001: Rock art, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE035-018001-. In the SW corner of Stradbally graveyard (KE035-018002-) is a large slab, 1.75m x .85m x .15m thick, with a single cup-mark on its upper surface. This latter is .06m in diameter and .015 to .02m deep. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 168. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 4 August 2013 In SW corner of Stradbally graveyard (KE035-018003-), on a level area of ground (8m OD), c. 0.7km to SE of Brandon Bay. Surrounding fields are in low-lying pasture and Lough Gill is c. 560m to NE. A smooth and fractured sandstone (dims. 1.75m NNW-SSE; 0.80m ENE-WSW; max. H 0.30m) with a flat, oblong surface (dims. 0.10m N-S; 0.10m E-W) bearing a single, well-preserved cupmark (dims. 7.5cm x 6.5cm; D 2cm) at the S end. Ivy is encroaching upon stone, around edges. Rock art stone is abutting (long-axis NNW-SSE) a box tomb to E and graveyard wall to S; Moriarty grave (1904) is adjacent to W. Stradbally Church (KE035-018002-) is close to NE. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 7 July 2017
- KE035-018002: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE035-018002-. Stradbally Church: A well-preserved rectangular church situated in a graveyard on the S shores of Brandon Bay. There was a parish church here by 1302 (Cal Docs Ire, V, 295), and in 1398 'Thomas, son of John de Geraldinis' was the rector of 'Stradbalybog' (Cal Pap Reg, 5, 106). The church was in repair in 1615 (TCD Ms 2158, 94) but was in ruins by the middle of the 18th century (Smith 1756, 71). The present remains, 15.7m x 5.67m internally, are of late 15th/early 16th century date. The walls are built of coursed rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings. The E, N and S walls stand to full height, but the W limit of the church is indicated only by protruding bond stones at the SW corner. The lower 1.5m of the external face of the E wall is battered, the batter returning as a weathered buttress at the NE and SE corners. The fragmentary remains of a buttress survive at the SW corner but the NW quoin has fallen. The interior of the church is confused by overground tombs. The E gable retains its ashlar coping. It was lit by a two-light cusped ogee-headed window, with splayed ingoings, which now lacks its central mullion. The pivot hole and draw bar sockets for double shutters survive. The window is set back from the interior in a chamfered, segment-headed recess and has an external hood mould with double returns. To the N of this window is a rectangular recess, probably a book or statue niche. At the E end of the N wall is a single-light, ogee-headed window with 16th century punch dressing. The chamfered jambs and sill are grooved for glass and the pivot holes and draw bar sockets for a shutter also survive. The window is set in an embrasure with splayed ingoings and bevelled rear arch; a scontion in the W ingoing is carried beyond the wall face and has a shallow carved basin. Only the chamfered jambs and splayed ingoing of the N door survive, its pointed head having fallen in recent years. The E ingoing, more acutely splayed to accommodate the door, retains a draw bar socket. The pointed doorway in the S wall has simple block jambs and a lintelled rear arch. The pivot hole and draw bar socket for the door survive. A small stoop projects from the external wall face immediately W of the doorway, and there is a 2nd stoop set in a rectangular recess in a similar position in the interior. Two beam holes on the internal face of the S wall, above the level of the door, may indicate that a gallery or loft existed at the W end of the church. The two, single-light, ogee-headed windows in the S wall have bevelled rear arches and are fitted with external hood moulds. The westernmost window has broach-stopped jambs, one of which is carved from a reused sandstone sill, probably from an earlier church. At the end of this wall is an aumbrey and beside it a piscina with broach-stop, hollow-moulded jambs and pointed heads. The circular basin is fluted radially and has a central drain. Rain water was carried from the roof by water spouts; one survives at the E end of the N wall, 6 survive on the S wall and a fallen spout lies outside the S door. See attached plan and photographs of graveyard taken from Dunne 2010. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 980. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 4 August 2013
- KE035-018003: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE035-018003-. Stradbally Church and Graveyard described by Cuppage (1986, 363-4, no. 980) as follows; 'A well-preserved rectangular church [KE035-018002-] situated in a graveyard on the S shores of Brandon Bay. There was a parish church here by 1302 (Cal. doc. Ire., V, 295), and in 1398 'Thomas, son of John de Geraldinis' was the rector of 'Stradbalybog' (Cal. papal letters, 5, 106). The church was in repair in 1615 (TCD Ms 2158, 94) but was in ruins by the middle of the 18th century (Smith 1756, 71). The present remains, 15.7m x 5.67m internally, are of late 15th/early 16th century date. The interior of the church is confused by overground tombs'. Graveyard surveyed in 2010 by Lar Dunne and described as follows; 'Stradbally Church and Graveyard is situated on flat reclaimed pasture 0.8km from Stradbally Strand in Brandon Bay on the north side of the Dingle Peninsula and 3.5km west of the Castlegregory. The massif of Mount Brandon forms a stunning background to the west while the spine of the Slieve Mish rise immediately to the south in front of which is the village of Stradbally. A rock-art boulder (KE035-018001) is also situated in the south-west corner of the graveyard. The church and graveyard are denoted on the 1stEdition of the Ordnance Survey 6”map, sheet 035 of 1841. The rectangular church is denoted as in ruins while the graveyard is sub-rectangular and not fully enclosed with the north and west walls of the graveyard forming part of the boundary. Furthermore, access to the graveyard is from the west and not from the east as is the situation today. Stradbally House, built by Richard Hickson as a hunting lodge in 1800, is denoted immediately to the east of the graveyard. In 1841 the land on which the church and graveyard were built on comprised of long narrow fields in the dune slack and liable to flooding. By 1896 the graveyard was slightly extended and now fully enclosed the church ruin and the trackway up to continued past on its northern limits to link onto the roadway to the beach on the east. Today the trackway from the west is completely gone and the graveyard has extended as far as the roadway on its east side from where the only access into the graveyard is gained. The small graveyard and ruined remains of the church at Stradbally are in a very poor state of repair. Negotiation around the western half of graveyard is achieved with difficulty as there is no formal path. Numerous architectural fragments are dispersed around the church including several water spouts, some of which have been re-used in nearby collapsed tombs. Many interments are placed in above ground tombs, thirty-seven of which were recorded in the course of this survey. Through time many of them have become overgrown neglected and collapsed and often lack any named memorial plaque (Plates 6, 7, 9-11). Not all the tombs are in bad order and there are a few different forms of tomb of which the majority are ‘strong-box’ and house-shaped types. Preferential burial in above ground tombs is a common feature in several graveyards in West Kerry and while this appears to be a tradition the more practical reason for it is that the burial ground is stony and rocky and often impossible to dig. However, in the case of Stradbally it is likely to be tradition rather than ground conditions, unless of course it was because of the wet, flooding nature of the land in the past. Apart from tombs there are sixty four headstones of which roughly half comprise unnamed unhewn gravestones some of which mark stone built lintelled type graves. Stradbally Graveyard is partially bounded by a random rubble wall of local sandstone bedded in mortar and capped with ‘soldiers’. The eastern boundary wall along the roadside and the northern boundary wall are in good order, albeit with a good growth of ivy and average 1.5m in height. The boundary walls along the south, west and north west are lower and not as well built and sections of the them are in poor repair, partially breached and covered in ivy and other growth. Entry into the graveyard is gained via a pair of modern galvanised gates that are set between two square substantial rubble stone piers. Pathways are poor and generally informal. An overgrown gravelled path partially extends around the interior perimeter at the west and north boundary walls. Although along the north side it is now fenced off by Kerry County Council. The removal of sod along the inside of the east or roadside boundary wall, has created an incidental ‘pathway’ that has partially exposed a child’s burial. The grave is manifest as a small rectangular cist or box like feature (0.75m x 0.50m) just inside the entrance gates and is not identified above ground by a headstone of any kind. The small box is simply made of thin slates set on edge. Twenty-five unnamed tombs were recorded in various states of preservation. Many are collapsed or partially collapsed and open. Others are only manifest as grass or ivy covered stony mounds. Several of these tombs are very old and possibly date to the late 17th and 18th or 19th centuries. Some are situated in the western half of the collapsed area of the church. Indeed one tomb (70) is partially collapsed and open tomb is built as a narrow lean type tomb against the south wall of the church immediately inside the south doorway. Clearly visible inside are the coherent remains of coffins. The collapse has also revealed an intra-mural stoup that had been concealed by the tomb. There were thirty-eight named headstones recorded at Stradbally graveyard associated with formal grave settings. There were thirty-six unnamed headstones in total recorded in the course of this survey. All of the unnamed headstones are simple grave markers of unhewn local sandstone and are disposed around the graveyard. Some of them mark a number of lintelled graves that are partially exposed on the surface especially around the south side of the ruined church. There is a mass grave of some of the ill fated Port Yarrock that sank in Brandon Bay in January 1894 after a voyage from Santa Rosalia. The remains of the Port Yarrock are still visible a little west of Stradbally on the beach at Kilcummin at low tide. The majority of the crew members were buried in another mass grave at Killiney graveyard while the remainder were interred in Cloghane. The mass grave situated against the north-east boundary is simply marked with a small headstone'. See attached plan and photographs of graveyard taken from Dunne 2010. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Lar Dunne Date of upload: 6 April 2022
- KE035-021: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE035-021----. Tobermurry/Tobar Muire: This was a 'small well about 2 feet (0.6m) wide and covered overhead with a flag' (OSNB Stradbally, 23) but it has now been destroyed. It was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, patroness of Stradbally Parish, and rounds were formerly made here on the 15th of August (OSL; Ó Danachair 1960, 77). The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 910. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardbeg.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ardbeg.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ardbeg.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ardbeg.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ardbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Aughanna: https://everytownland.com/kerry/aughanna.md
- Barrack: https://everytownland.com/kerry/barrack.md
- Farrantooleen: https://everytownland.com/kerry/farrantooleen.md
- Gowlane: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gowlane-71586.md

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.

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Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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