Ardcanaght

165 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardcanaght, from 13 m² to 298,899 m² (29.89 ha, 73.86 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 Ardcanaght 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.

• 7 Jul 2026Conditional

  Retention Permission to retain extension works to the rear of house and Permission to complete the extension works, repairs to existing house and shed/garage, and to install a septic tank and polishing filter at Ardcanaght, Castlemaine, Co. Kerry

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660631

• 1 Oct 2025Refused

  Full Planning Permission to (a) build a private storey and a half type dwelling with two storey in part (b) install a Mechanical Treatment Unit and Polishing Filter (c) Private Garage (d) all associated site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560889

• 23 Apr 2025Refused

  demolish existing derelict dwelling house and build a new dwelling house and to install a new proprietary wastewater treatment system to serve same

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560325

• 1 Mar 2022Conditional

  (A) DEMOLISH REAR AND SIDE EXTENSION (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW SIDE AND REAR EXTENSION ONTO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (C) ELEVATION CHANGES AND INTERNAL ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22214

• 20 Jan 2022Conditional

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

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2235

• 17 Nov 2021N/a

  RETAIN DWELLING AS CONSTRUCTED AND PERMISSION TO INSTALL AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND POLISHING FILTER

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 211298

• 30 Sept 2021Conditional

  INTALL A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PURAFLO MODULE AND DECOMMISSION EXISTING MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 211111

• 17 Feb 2021Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT A TRADITIONAL STYLE DWELLING HOUSE, PART 1 AND A HALF STOREY AND PART SINGLE STOREY DESIGN (B) CONSTRUCT A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE (C) INSTALL A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA (D)CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ON SITE

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21145

• 20 Jan 2021Conditional

  RETAIN ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2136

• 12 Jul 2019Conditional

  (A) ERECT A STOREY AND A HALF TRADITIONAL STYLE DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE,(B) INSTALL A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER , (C) CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19728

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: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343
• Special Protection Area: Castlemaine Harbour SPA 004029
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Castlemaine Harbour 000343

Recorded monuments

• KE047-026 Standing stone
  Description

  Listed in the RMP for Co. Kerry as an Enclosure, there is however no evidence or references in the paper file to the existence of an enclosure at this location.  Therefore the classification has been changed from Enclosure to Standing Stone as this monument was not listed in the Kerry RMP. The Ardcanaght (Aird Chánachta/Hill of the Tribute) Stone, in the parish of Kilgarrylander (Cill Gharraí an Lóndraigh), barony of Trughanacmy (Triúcha an Aicme), Co. Kerry. National Monument Number 430.  In improved pasture (20m OD), on a very gentle E-facing slope of low lying ground in the River Maine valley. Excellent views of the MacGillycuddy Reeks to S and Slieve Mish mountains to N.  A smooth and fractured standing stone (dims. H 1.62m; L 0.95m; Wth 0.87m) with decorated surface (dims. H 1.55m; Wth 0.66m) bearing extremely faint and weathered rock art upon the ENE face. Very faint traces of approximately five cup-and-one-ring motifs (average diam. 15cm; ring Wth 4cm; D 3mm; cup diam. 5cm; D 4mm) are barely traceable upon lower part of this elevation. Three single ring elements and two two-ring elements may represent the remains of deeply weathered cup-and-ring or cup-and-two ring motifs. Known as the Ardcanaght Stone. A rectangular area (dims. 3.5m N-S; 3.5m E-W) around the monument is enclosed by a steel fence, separating it from rest of field. Three fragments of ogham stones (KE047-026001-/003-) within the railed enclosure, at base of standing stone. 3D model of standing stone decorated with cup-and-ring motifs visible at https://skfb.ly/pBxxq   Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

• KE047-026001 Ogham stone (present location)
  Description

  One of two ogham stones (see KE047-026003- for details of second stone) discovered by the Tralee field club in the 1940s in a nearby burial ground (KE047-037----, ‘Killeen Old Burial Ground’). Both are now located in a modern enclosure beside a standing stone (KE047-026---- with rock art (KE047-026002-). This ogham stone (0.42m (above ground) x 0.43m x 0.15m) is badly damaged with the bottom lost 'as well as about half of the inscribed edge of the surviving portion' (Macalister 1945, 241, no. 246a). All that survives of the inscription is: ...]V MAQI[...  [Son of]. Only two scores of the final I remain and the V was below ground level on the last visit. Listed by Dr. White as Ardcanaght I. Cross-referenced with KE047-037001-. This stone has been studied as part of the ‘Ogham in 3D’ project undertaken by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. To access details go to the following website: https://ogham.celt.dias.ie/version2013/stone.php?lang=en&site=Ardcanaght&stoneinfo=description&stone=246a._Ardcanaght_I Compiled by: Dr. Nora White  Date of upload: 25 January 2017

• KE047-026002 Rock art
  Description

  National Monument Number 430. In improved pasture (20m OD), on a very gentle E-facing slope of low lying ground in the River Maine valley. Excellent views of the MacGillycuddy Reeks to S and Slieve Mish mountains to N. A smooth and fractured standing stone (KE047-026----) having a rectangular decorated surface (dims. H 1.55m; Wth 0.66m) bearing extremely faint and weathered rock art upon the ENE-elevation. Very faint traces of approximately five cup-and-one-ring motifs (average diam. 15cm; ring Wth 4cm; D 3mm; cup diam. 5cm; D 4mm) are barely traceable upon lower part of this elevation. Three single ring elements and two two-ring elements may represent the remains of deeply weathered cup-and-ring or cup-and-two ring motifs. According to a drawing by O’Shea (1966), the ENE-facing aspect bears at least fourteen motifs, including rings, cup-and-rings and an unusual spiral motif. A semi-circular arrangement of five pickmarks are located upon the upper NNW-facing aspect. There are natural solution or pock marks upon both decorated aspects. Known as the Ardcanaght Stone. A rectangular area (dims. 3.5m N-S; 3.5m E-W) around the monument is enclosed by a steel fence, separating it from rest of field. Three fragments of ogham stone (KE047-026001-/026003-) within the railed enclosure, at base of standing stone. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 6 July 2017

• KE047-026003 Ogham stone (present location)
  Description

  One of two ogham stones (KE047-037001-/KE047-026001-) discovered by the Tralee field club in the 1940s in a nearby burial ground (KE047-037----). Now located in a modern enclosure beside a standing stone (KE047-026----) with rock art (KE047-026002-). This stone (0.86m (above ground) x 0.15m x 0.14m) was recorded by Macalister (1945, 241, no. 246b) as 'a pillar stone about 4' high, square in horizontal section: broken in two'. He read the inscription as LMCBLTCL LT. Broken in two pieces one of which is lying on the surface of the ground at the base of the standing stone.  Listed by Dr. Nora White as Ardcanaght II.  Dr White described the markings on this stone as follows; ‘Many of the scores are curved, rather than the usual straight scores and I cannot make any sense of the text. It is also difficult to be sure of the correct re-alignment of the two fragments’. Cross-referenced with KE047-037002-. This stone has been studied as part of the ‘Ogham in 3D’ project undertaken by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.  For more details visit: https://ogham.celt.dias.ie/version2013/stone.php?lang=en&site=Ardcanaght&stoneinfo=description&stone=246b._Ardcanaght_II Compiled by: Dr. Nora White

• KE047-037 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In pasture on S facing slope with good views of Cluain Hill. Children's burial ground in the townland of Ardcanaght (Aird Chánachta/hill of the Tribute), in the parish of Kilgarrylander, diocese of Ardfert, barony of Trughanacmy. Raised area (dims. c. 24m N-S x 14m E-W) with central depression (diam. c. 8m) in NE corner of field marks site of Children's Burial Ground. Annotated 'Killeen Old Burial Ground' on 1841 ed. OS 6-inch map where it is shown as a rectangular shaped area transected at E by field boundary running N-S located in NE corner of field. Area of uncultivated land in NE corner of field visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Two ogham stones were discovered inside this burial ground by the Tralee Field Club.  They were removed from this burial ground and placed beside a standing stone (KE047-026----) decorated with rock art known as the Ardcanaght Stone which stands in a field 330m to the N.   See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 May 2022

• KE047-037001 Ogham stone
  Description

  One of two ogham stones (KE047-037002-/KE047-026003-) discovered by the Tralee field club in the 1940s in a Children's Burial Ground (KE047-037----). Both are now located in a modern enclosure beside a standing stone (KE047-026---- with rock art (KE047-026002-). This ogham stone (0.42m (above ground) x 0.43m x 0.15m) is badly damaged with the bottom lost 'as well as about half of the inscribed edge of the surviving portion' (Macalister 1945, 241, no. 246a). All that survives of the inscription is: ...]V MAQI[... . Only two scores of the final I remain and the V was below ground level on the last visit. Cross-referenced with KE047-026001-. This stone has been studied as part of the ‘Ogham in 3D’ project undertaken by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Compiled by: Dr. Nora White

• KE047-037002 Ogham stone
  Description

  One of two ogham stones (KE047-037001-/KE047-026001-) discovered by the Tralee field club in the 1940s in a children's burial ground (KE047-037----). Now located in a modern enclosure beside a standing stone (KE047-026----) decorated with rock art (KE047-026002-). This ogham stone (0.86m (above ground) x 0.15m x 0.14m) was recorded by Macalister (1945, 241, no. 246b) as 'a pillar stone about 4' high, square in horizontal section: broken in two'. He read the inscription as LMCBLTCL LT. Cross-referenced with KE047-026003-. This stone has been studied as part of the ‘Ogham in 3D’ project undertaken by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.  Compiled by: Dr. Nora White

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ardcanaght, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_92 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ardcanaght · Ard Cánachta

Area

4,527,102 m² (452.71 ha, 1,118.67 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgarrylander, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Boolteens, the unit of the census

Census 2022

504 people lived in 175 households in the Boolteens electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Boolteens East, Boolteens West, Castledrum, Cunnavoola, Farna

Placenames

Ardcanaght 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.