# Ardfert, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ardfert, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish Ard Fhearta. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,538,552 m² (153.86 ha, 380.18 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 94 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,152 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): M2 Town/Village Centre, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 11 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ardfert, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/ardfert.md - Barony: Clanmaurice - Electoral division: Ardfert, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ardfert electoral division: 1,100 people in 424 households; 60% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/1411932 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 70075 - Centre: latitude 52.327794, longitude -9.769728 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 94 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardfert, from 13 m² to 214,496 m² (21.45 ha, 53 acres); 51 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1232906: 214,496 m² (21.45 ha, 53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1232906.md - Parcel 4183552: 185,456 m² (18.55 ha, 45.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4183552.md - Parcel 1245168: 173,469 m² (17.35 ha, 42.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1245168.md - Parcel 1218306: 144,848 m² (14.48 ha, 35.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1218306.md - Parcel 1230480: 94,619 m² (9.46 ha, 23.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1230480.md - Parcel 1197650: 87,451 m² (8.75 ha, 21.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1197650.md - Parcel 1223294: 77,837 m² (7.78 ha, 19.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1223294.md - Parcel 1209304: 72,964 m² (7.3 ha, 18.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1209304.md - Parcel 1236975: 69,862 m² (6.99 ha, 17.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1236975.md - Parcel 1205605: 52,873 m² (5.29 ha, 13.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1205605.md - Parcel 1182268: 46,482 m² (4.65 ha, 11.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1182268.md - Parcel 1247728: 43,894 m² (4.39 ha, 10.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1247728.md - Parcel 1157744: 32,638 m² (3.26 ha, 8.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1157744.md - Parcel 4333909: 21,928 m² (2.19 ha, 5.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4333909.md - Parcel 1162172: 16,986 m² (1.7 ha, 4.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1162172.md - Parcel 1214516: 16,669 m² (1.67 ha, 4.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1214516.md - Parcel 4333917: 11,038 m² (1.1 ha, 2.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4333917.md - Parcel 1201881: 10,686 m² (1.07 ha, 2.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1201881.md - Parcel 1164941: 7,981 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1164941.md - Parcel 1178473: 6,964 m² (0.7 ha, 1.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1178473.md - Parcel 1199596: 5,514 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1199596.md - Parcel 5145575: 5,433 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5145575.md - Parcel 1241312: 5,025 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1241312.md - Parcel 1187689: 3,598 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1187689.md - Parcel 1204206: 3,074 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1204206.md - Parcel 1192860: 2,807 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1192860.md - Parcel 1144604: 2,678 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1144604.md - Parcel 1212219: 2,668 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1212219.md - Parcel 4183322: 2,576 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4183322.md - Parcel 4657456: 2,491 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4657456.md - Parcel 1241980: 2,337 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1241980.md - Parcel 1192049: 2,268 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1192049.md - Parcel 1230692: 2,198 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1230692.md - Parcel 1191254: 2,027 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1191254.md - Parcel 1229199: 2,020 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1229199.md - Parcel 1194959: 2,016 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1194959.md - Parcel 1213111: 1,689 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1213111.md - Parcel 1198856: 1,664 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1198856.md - Parcel 1155933: 1,648 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1155933.md - Parcel 5118164: 1,507 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5118164.md - Parcel 1145353: 1,335 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1145353.md - Parcel 1143784: 1,316 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1143784.md - Parcel 1201035: 1,299 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1201035.md - Parcel 1238810: 1,290 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1238810.md - Parcel 1178364: 1,225 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1178364.md - Parcel 2667646: 1,221 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2667646.md - Parcel 1229577: 1,187 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1229577.md - Parcel 1140423: 1,117 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1140423.md - Parcel 1164972: 1,089 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1164972.md - Parcel 1196703: 1,089 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1196703.md - Parcel 5150566: 1,086 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5150566.md - Parcel 1139925: 1,070 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1139925.md - Parcel 1147845: 1,064 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1147845.md - Parcel 5953920: 1,049 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5953920.md - Parcel 5150548: 979 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5150548.md - Parcel 5249410: 946 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5249410.md - Parcel 1220571: 911 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1220571.md - Parcel 1229264: 894 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1229264.md - Parcel 1201389: 842 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1201389.md - Parcel 5061522: 786 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5061522.md - Parcel 1153962: 785 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1153962.md - Parcel 1189879: 779 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1189879.md - Parcel 5680497: 653 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5680497.md - Parcel 1155833: 554 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1155833.md - Parcel 5768775: 554 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5768775.md - Parcel 1156274: 538 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1156274.md - Parcel 1146546: 525 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1146546.md - Parcel 1237975: 479 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1237975.md - Parcel 1153787: 465 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1153787.md - Parcel 5061518: 463 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5061518.md - Parcel 5735682: 460 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5735682.md - Parcel 1155619: 399 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1155619.md - Parcel 1188710: 378 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1188710.md - Parcel 1146728: 362 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1146728.md - Parcel 1196058: 360 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1196058.md - Parcel 1145399: 336 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1145399.md - Parcel 1156385: 328 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1156385.md - Parcel 5143342: 309 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5143342.md - Parcel 1144944: 278 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1144944.md - Parcel 1152827: 261 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1152827.md - Parcel 1148840: 239 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1148840.md - Parcel 5790808: 237 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5790808.md - Parcel 1156063: 214 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1156063.md - Parcel 1152292: 204 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1152292.md - Parcel 1154319: 200 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1154319.md - Parcel 1199981: 180 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1199981.md - Parcel 5667148: 137 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5667148.md - Parcel 1189157: 117 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1189157.md - Parcel 1243338: 89 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1243338.md - Parcel 1185626: 55 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1185626.md - Parcel 1191576: 45 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1191576.md - Parcel 1196385: 43 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1196385.md - Parcel 3846044: 27 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3846044.md - Parcel 1185475: 13 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1185475.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - M2 Town/Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area): Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry; 18 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://cdp.kerrycoco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Variation-No1-Tralee-MD-Settlements-Plan.pdf - R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry; 13 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://cdp.kerrycoco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Variation-No1-Tralee-MD-Settlements-Plan.pdf - G1 Open Space, Park (Open space, park): Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry; 10 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://cdp.kerrycoco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Variation-No1-Tralee-MD-Settlements-Plan.pdf - G3 Conservation, Amenity, Landscape Protection (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry; 6 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://cdp.kerrycoco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Variation-No1-Tralee-MD-Settlements-Plan.pdf - G4 Active Open Space (Active open space): Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://cdp.kerrycoco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Variation-No1-Tralee-MD-Settlements-Plan.pdf - R1 New/Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential): Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://cdp.kerrycoco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Variation-No1-Tralee-MD-Settlements-Plan.pdf - S3 Community Facilities (Community facilities): Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://cdp.kerrycoco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Variation-No1-Tralee-MD-Settlements-Plan.pdf ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 11 applications, newest first. - 16 Jan 2025, Kerry County Council 2560009: Conditional. Permission. (A) retention permission to retain the existing community centre with associated services within revised site boundaries, (B) retention permission to retain the existing dwelling with associated services within revised site boundaries and (C) planning permission to change the use of the existing dwelling to a child care facility. The proposal will include undertaking extensive redesign and extensions to the existing building. The proposed use of the building is to be ancillary to the community centre, (D) planning permission to construct all associated site works at Ardfert Village , Co. Kerry. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560009/0 - 10 Oct 2024, Kerry County Council 2460779: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Planning permission for the following: Refurbish and extend existing dwelling including the demolition of existing extensions to the rear and the front porch, removal of existing back wall and roof to main dwelling, increase eaves level to rear and re-roof house, fit external insulation to old dwelling, fit new windows and doors and construct new front porch and new flat roofed extension to rear complete with all ancillary site works associated with the development including plant room/bike shed to rear, new rear boundary wall to north west corner of the property all on my site. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460779/0 - 24 Jul 2024, Kerry County Council 2460492: Conditional. Permission. Retention Permission to: a) Retain the development within a revised site boundary, b) Retain the on site shipping container and Planning Permission to: c) extend and renovate the existing dressing rooms to include two additional dressing/ changing rooms, a meeting room and ancillary spaces, d) decommission the existing septic tank and percolation area, e) Install a new mechanical treatment unit and raised polishing filter, f) Rotate/ pivot the location of the existing playing surface, g) Reposition the goal posts, rear ball stop netting and dug outs etc. to reflect the new pitch location, h) Erect an electronic scoreboard, i) Erect 1.8m high Palisade fencing to the proposed South and South Eastern boundaries, j) Erect 1.2m palisade fencing to the perimeter of the playing surface, k) Construct a 6m high reinforced concrete ball wall and l) Construct all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460492/0 - 21 Apr 2023, Kerry County Council 23440: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCT (A) AN INFILL MEZZANINE FLOOR, TO THE EXISTING SPORTS HALL AREA, WITHIN THE EXISTING STRUCTURE, (B) MINOR ELEVATION CHANGES, (C) CONSTRUCT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/23440/0 - 1 Mar 2023, Kerry County Council 23227: N/a. Permission. CONSTRUCT A 2 STOREY CHILDCARE CENTRE WHICH WILL BE SERVED BY A NEW CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/23227/0 - 16 Feb 2022, Kerry County Council 22158: Conditional. Permission. CHANGE USE OF EXISTING RETAIL STORE TO RESTAURANT/CAFE AND PERMISSION FOR A SERIES OF INTERNAL LAYOUT CHANGES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/22158/0 - 3 Nov 2020, Kerry County Council 201051: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, COMPLETE WITH A MECHANICAL WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT FOLLOWED BY A SANDCEL SAND FILTER AND A SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/201051/0 - 1 Jul 2020, Kerry County Council 20572: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, COMPLETE WITH A MECHANICAL WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT FOLLOWED BY A SANDCEL SAND FILTER AND A SOIL POLOSHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOICATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/20572/0 - 2 Apr 2019, Kerry County Council 19337: Refused. Retention. (A) PLANNING RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN DOUBLE DOORS AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL ON THE NORTHERN ELEVATION AND FOR THE FIRST FLOOR CORRIDOR EXTENSION TO HABITABLE ACCOMMODATION ON THE WESTERN ELEVATION (B) PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE REAR FIRST FLOOR BALCONY AREA FOR SOLE USE OF OCCUPIERS OF FIRST FLOOR HABITABLE ACCOMMODATION ALL LOCATED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/19337/0 - 13 Feb 2019, Kerry County Council 19126: Conditional. Permission. (A) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 90M X 55M APPROX ALL WEATHER PLAYING PITCH COMPLETE WITH A PERIMETER BOUNDARY FENCE, BALL STOP NETTING AND FLOOD LIGHTING, (B) DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW 138M X 86M APPROX. GRASSED PLAYING PITCH FOR GAELIC GAMES COMPLETE WITH FLOODLIGHTING AND BALL STOP NETTING BEHIND GOALS, (C) CONSTRUCTION OF PERIMETER JOGGING TRACK, (D) CONSTRUCTION OF TWO STOREY SPORTS PAVILION COMPRISING 34.5M X 20M SPORTS HALL, 4 NO CHANGING ROOMS WITH ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION AS REQUIRED TOILETS, SHOWERS, STORAGE, PLANT ROOM ETC., AND INTERNAL VIEWING BALCONY, (D) CONSTRUCTION OF SPORTING LANE AND RUN OUT AREAS FOR LONG JUMP AND HIGH JUMP, (E) CONSTRUCTION OF A COVERED VIEWING SHELTER BETWEEN PITCHES, (F) CONSTRUCTION OF 5M HIGH BALL WALL WITH LIGHTING AND BALL STOP NETTING, ALL COMPLETE WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS INCLUDING CAR PARKING AND PERIMETER PALISADE BOUNDARY FENCING. (THIS APPLICATION IS FOR A DURATION OF TEN YEARS). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/19126/0 - 12 Jan 2018, Kerry County Council 1811: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCT A SHED COMPRISING NEW MILKING PARLOUR, DAIRY, POWER HOUSE, STORE, CALF PENS, BULL PEN, CATTLE CRUSH AREA, SLATTED DAIRY EFFLUENT TANK, SLURRY DUCT AND TO DEMOLISH EXISTING DAIRY AND MILKING PARLOUR AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/1811/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ardfert. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE020-046: Historic town, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046----. The historic town of Ardfert was described in the Urban Survey of Kerry as follows; ‘Throughout the Middle Ages, however, Ardfert was one of the most important settlement sites in Kerry an episcopal see, and, under the Normans, a borough. The placename, "Ard Ferta", means the height of burial mounds. Sometimes it is referred to as Ard Ferta Brenaind, after its patron saint. The church of Ardfert is generally regarded as a sixth century foundation of St. Brendan of Clonfert but nothing is known of its history until the eleventh century (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 62). In 1031 a reference occurs to one MacMara fasting 'aginst' Brendan at Ardfert (Ann. Inisf.) while in 1032 the death of Ailill Ua Flaithim, "erenagh of Ard Ferta …..leading jurist of Mumu" is recorded. In 1046 the stone church (dam liac) Ardfert was destroyed by lightning (Ann. Inisf.) and the burning of Ardfert is recorded in 1089 (AFM). In 1111 at the Synod of Raith Bressail Ratass was chosen as the centre of the diocese of Kerry but it was soon replaced by Ardfert which remained the episcopal see throughout the Middle Ages (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 62, 95). In 1117 the death of Anmchadh O hAnmchadha, bishop of Ardfert, is recorded (AFM). In 1152, however, it was burned by O Cuilein, king of Ui Chonaill Gabhra (Ó hInnse 1947, 35). It was burned again in 1179 (Ann. Inisf., AFM) and in 1180 it was plundered by the Clann Charthaigh who "carried off all the livestock they found there….. [and] killed many senior clergy within their sanctuary and graveyard" (Ó hInnse 1947, 71; Ann. Inisf.). The earliest evidence for Anglo-Norman activity in north Kerry is a grant of the area to Meiler F'itzHenry by King John in 1200 but is not clear to what extent, if any, this grant led to actual settlement in the area (Orpen 1911-20, iii, 123; Otway-Ruthven 1968, 86). Around 1214-15 there was a renewed Anglo-Norman thrust into the north Kerry area with the construction of a strong castles along its southern boundary, the river Maine. North Kerry was largely granted to the antecedents of the Geraldine houses of Desmond and Kerry or Lixnaw, whose exact identity has been a matter for debate (Nicholls 1970, 23-9). It is in the wake of this development that the first evidence of direct Anglo-Norman influence on Ardfert appears. In 1217 the justiciar, Geoffrey de Marisco, attempted unsuccessfully to impose an English bishop on the vacant see in preference to the lrish candidate already elected (Watt 1970, 73). Thirteenth century references to settlement are few, however. It has been suggested that the Franciscan friary was founded by Thomas FitzMaurice, 1ord of Kerry, c. 1253 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 242; cf. Nicholls 1970, 25, n.8). By 1286 it was sufficiently well established for Thomas FitzMaurice to be granted customs on all merchandise sold in the vill of 'Ard' for seven years in order to enclose it. A reference to John le Draper, burgess of 'Ardart’ occurs in 1297 (Mills 1907, 128) and the existence of a municipal authority is evident from the reference to the provost of Ardfert in 1295 (Mills 1907, 21). A royal receipt roll of 1293 notes that £8 18s. was received in customs on 44 hogsheads and one pipe of wine at Ardfart (Sweetman 1875 6, iv, no. 21). Ardfert was also a legal centre, having a royal prison (Mills 1905, 44; 1914, 416) and the justiciar held court there in 1295 (Mills 1902, 21). Little more is known of the history Ardfert until the late sixteenth century and the references of this period to the borough indicate that it continued to function throughout the Later Middle Ages. In 1580 it was reported that the Spaniards had established a camp at Ardfert and that they had besieged the castle in conjunction with the earl of Desmond but had been repulsed (Hamilton 1867, 256, 261). In 1581-2 the English had a company of foot and a half-company of horse quartered in Ardfert being provisioned by the sovereign ("pronnsa") of the town (AFM). In 1582 Thomas FitzMaurice, lord of Kerry or Lixnaw rebelled and besieged the English garrison at Ardfert (Hamilton 1867, 365) but the garrison was 1ater relieved by the governor of Munster (Hamilton 1867, 373). Later in the year, however, the garrison were again besieged by Lixnaw and Desmond and eventually forced to withdraw from the town with many losses, committing the castle to the custody of James Oge, the sheriff (Hamilton 1867, 399, 403-5; AFM). Following the defeat and death of the earl of Desmond, English control was re-established in Ardfert. In 1584 the Franciscans were ejected from the friary (Jennings 1934, 153) and in the same year a survey of Desmond's forfeited possessions was drawn up, which noted burgages, lands, buildings, etc., held by him in "the 1ate burgh of Ardarte" (PRO 1881, 7). The survey also noted that the town and cathedral were nearly "prostrated and devastated" on account of the rebellion (PRO 1881, 31). Desmond’s holdings in Ardfert, as well as the friary, were given to Sir Francis Walshingham, Edward Denny, and other English planters, in the Plantation of Munster in 1587 (Brewer and Bullen 1868, 451) but it is not clear if Ardfert ever really recovered from the devastation of the Desmond revolt. The fate of the cathedral, which was apparently still ruined in 1611, may well be illustrative of the settlement as a whole. Thomas FitzMaurice, baron of Lixnaw, was granted a weekly market and yearly fair at Ardfert in 1612 and the borough continued to function into the nineteenth century (Ir. Rec. Comm. 1830, 225). A description of c. 1682 states that the cathedral, four other churches, the anchorites cell the hospital, and Castle were all burnt or destroyed during the Confederation wars (0'Sullivan 1971, 40). In the census of 1659, a population of 47 was returned for Ardfert (Pender 1939, 248) and in 1687 Sir Richard Cox described it as “of late soe decayd that it contains onely a few Cabbins (De Brún 1972, 39). SITE OF BOROUGH The site of the medieval borough cannot be accurately determined in the present state of knowledge but its most likely position was in the strip of ground between the cathedral and Ardfert Abbey. The road south of the cathedral widens into a triangular space known as the Fair Green which looks to be of recent date. MARKET CROSS King (1908, 17) states that there was a dispute in 1312 concerning the cross and pillory. DOMESTIC HOUSES The 1584 survey of Desmond's lands and the 1587 grant to the English planters list various houses and burgages in Ardfert but none is described in any detail (PRO 1881,7: Brewer and Bullen 1868, 451). Some details are known of two buildings, however. The first is a new castle, lately built anew with lime and stone, forfeited by the earl of Desmond and listed in the survey of 1584 (PRO 1881, 7). The second is a mansion built near the Franciscan friary by David Crosbie in 1633-4. Hickson (1874, 2-3) recorded the discovery in the grounds of its eighteenth century successor of a stone inscribed: HOC OPUS INCEPTUM Ao. DNI. 1633 ET FINITUM Ao. DNI 1635 DAVID CROSBIE ARMT UBI FIDES ET VERITAS DEUS PROVIDEBIT The house did not survive for long however, and was probably burned during the Confederate wars. This may explain why in 1645 Edmund FitzMaurice ordered the portreeve and inhabitants of Ardfert to assist him in demolishing David Crosbie's house (Hickson 1874, 14). The Molyneux description of c. 1682 noted an infinite deal of stone walls and traces old foundations, which show the place to have formerly appeared in a better figure than it bears present (O'Sullivan 1971, 40). The 1635 slab described by Hickson was not located (see Mems. Dead 1 (1888-91), 399). TOWN DEFENCES In 1286 Thomas FitzMaurice, lord of Desmond, received murage grant for seven years to pay for the enclosure of the vill of Ard' (Sweetman 1875-86, ii, no. 226). This grant must have been followed by a later one because in 1311-12 it was recorded that Reginald Brun owed 46s. 8d for the murage of - KE020-046001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046001-. National Monument No. 54. Templenagriffin (Teampall na nGrífín, church of the Grífín - surname Griffin) (in ruins), NW quadrant of graveyard (KE020-046011-). Romanesque Church (KE020-046007-) 7m to E, Ardfert Cathedral (KE020-046002-) 36m to SE. Templenagriffin church described in the Urban Survey of Kerry as follows; 'Small single-aisled fifteenth century church, measuring 14.5 by 7m internally. The masonry is roughly coursed limestone with small amounts of red and green sandstone inclusions. The corners have dressed limestone quoins and the east and west walls are battered externally. The walls stand to full height of about 4m for north and south walls and 8-9m for the gables. A rectangular bell-cote rises above the west gable. The east wall has a tall splayed cusped twin-light window. The limestone jambs are chamfered and a segmental rear arch is also chamfered. The north wall has a small single light window at the east end. The arch and most of the jambs of the window are gone but the dressed limestone segmental rear arch survives. One stone of the internal east jamb has interlaced wyverns biting each others tails above a plaited pattern. The south wall has a piscina with circular basin at east end. The pointed arch over the piscina is limestone but the jambs are of chamfered red sandstone. There are two windows in the wall but the eastern one has lost its arch and most of its jambs. The west window is a single-light pointed opening with chamfered jambs of mixed limestone and sandstone and a flat lintelled rear arch. In between the windows is a round headed splayed doorway with rounded rear arch. The chamfered jambs of the doorway are of red sandstone but the arch is of limestone as are the internal dressed jambs of the rear arch. The west wall is featureless' (Bradley et al. 1987, 35-6). The Griffin family owned a large stretch of territory from Ballyheigue to Ardfert at this time and Smith (1756) says of the carving, 'On it are carved a griffin and a dragon conjoined which some of the family of Fitzmaurice carried formerly as supporters to their arms.' Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 6 May 2022 - KE020-046002: Cathedral, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046002-. National Monument No. 54. St Brendan's Cathedral (in ruins). Situated on an elevated rock outcrop to the S of the River Tyshe (Abhainn na Taibhse - river of the spectre). The complex includes the excavated and conserved ruins of a medieval cathedral whose chronology extends between the 11th to the 17th centuries. Ardfert is derived from Ard Fhearta which has several possible meanings. The most likely is ‘the height of the burial mound’ (O’Connor 1990, 5; Moore 2007, 13). The Early Medieval foundation at Ardfert is generally believed to have been founded by St. Brendan of Clonfert in the 6th century, however, there is no contemporary evidence to support this claim and it is most likely that his tutor and mentor St. Erc was the founder in the 5th century (Moore 2007, 16). The cathedral was fully excavated by Fionnbarr Moore, senior archaeologist with the NMS, over a seven year period in tandem with major conservation works carried out by Grellan Rourke of the OPW. These works have now been completed and Ardfert cathedral is now a managed visitor centre open to the public. All excavated interments in the cathedral were reburied in the newer section of the graveyard abutting the old one at the east (Dunne 2012, 5). St. Brendan's Cathedral was described in the Urban Survey of Kerry as follows; 'Historically almost nothing is known of this building from medieval documentary sources but it can be suggested on architectural grounds that the cathedral was built incorporating older fragments c 1260 (Leask 1955-60,ii, 114). It clearly suffered serious damage in the Desmond rebellion, and in 1584 was described as "nearly prostrated and devastated" (PRO 1881, 31). This state of affairs existed up until 1611 when it was listed among a number of ruined cathedrals in an act for their edification. In Ardfert's case, however, it was proposed to remove the cathedral see to Dingle (Brewer and Bullen 1873, 155). There is no evidence that the cathedral was ever restored and Smith's (1756, 68, 202-3) statement that the cathedral was destroyed in 1641 which is repeated by many writers is without foundation (but see O'Sullivan 1971, 40). The church consists of a long nave and chancel, measuring 44 by 8m, a south aisle and transept and a vestry/mortuary chapel north of the chancel. At least five periods of building are present. The oldest portion is twelfth century Romanesque work belonging to the buildings predecessor. The nave, chancel and south aisle are thirteenth century workmanship. The south transept was added in the fifteenth century; the vestry/ mortuary chapel in the sixteenth century, and alterations were made to this in 1668. The Romanesque Remains The Romanesque section of the west wall is built of sandstone and consists of a round arched door of two orders set in the north end of the wall with parts of a blank arcade on the north and south. The northern arcade consists of only one arch but it is evident that it originally extended beyond the present north wall, constructed in the thirteenth century. The wall surfaces of the arcades were faced with evenly cut and dressed blocks of sandstone, with the lower blocks set diagonally in a diamond pattern on either side of the door. The diamond pattern on the N side of the door rests on a long broken stone which has an elaborate interlaced design. The outer order of the door and the jambs have a chevron design and the capitals have trumpet capitals. The arches and soffits of the arcades are also decorated with chevrons and the pillarette to the south of the door between the arcades is decorated with a sugar barley twist. The centre section of the north wall is constructed of very large roughly coursed blocks of limestone, and it has been suggested by Hill (1870) that it is also of Romanesque date. It is out of alignment with the west end however and, if it is of Romanesque date, it can only be explained as part of another church because it is too long to have functioned as the chancel of the twelfth century cathedral. The Thirteenth Century Cathedral This was constructed of uncoursed rubble limestone with occasional blocks of sandstone, the quoins are of pink, yellow and grey sandstone. The building survives to its original height, with the gables standing to c. 10m and the side walls to c.7 and topped by15th/16th century crow-stepped battlements. The Chancel The east wall has three graded lancet windows, with sloping sills, flanked internally by two wall niches rising from an internal string course, now 30 cm above ground level. The external jambs are chamfored and the internal ones are moulding with banding 1.3m apart. The top of the mouldings are crowned by small capitals with worn stiff leaf foliage or openwork interlace. There are simple hood mouldings internally and externally with small floral stops on the internal arch. Above the window is a splayed flat arched rectangular opening with chamfered jambs in the gable. The two niches are similarly decorated but the arches have dog-tooth decoration. The east gable originally had two angle-buttresses but only that on the south east survives. The angle mouldings of the buttress have three quarter columns with stiff leaf capitals. The north wall contains rectangular wall-niche/aumbry, a narrow single-light window, and a door leading into the vestry. The Vestry is a later addition and originally the north wall would have been plain except for the rectangular wall-niche/aumbry, which is divided by a central pillar. The jambs are chamfered and one side of its rectangular hood-moulding has a weathered head with fleur-de-lys crown. The single light rectangular window has chamfered limestone jambs opening into the church, and is an insertion. It is splayed with a flat rear arch and indicates the presence of a western extension to the vestry. The vestry was entered through a fine ogee-headed door with concave limestone jambs. The south wall has a row of nine lancets with cusped rounded rear arches. The external jambs are chamfered and the internal ones have a banded roll moulding. The eastern four are smaller than the the other five because they were placed over two wall niches/sedilia. These niches are badly damaged and lack most of their original jambs but sufficient survives to show that they were contemporary with the niches in the east wall. The hood moulding which runs over the western niche continues as a string-course under the remaining five windows. Under the sixth window from the east there is an inserted pointed door, splayed internally with flat linteled rear arch. West of the ninth window two projecting corbels, matched by two similar ones in the north wall indicate the position of the rood screen. A rectangular window with glazing bars and flat arch was inserted later between the corbels, and its sill-stone is a reused drainage channel from a wall walk. The Nave Above the older masonry in the north wall are two twin light windows, splayed internally, with pointed rear arches and sloping sills. The separating mullions and jambs are of chamfered sandstone. Close to the west end is a pointed sandstone doorway with chamfered jambs and flattened rear arch. The west wall was thickened to incorporate the Romanesque section and the occurrence of steps to the south of the door internally may indicate a former gallery above. South of the Romanesque arcading the thirteenth century wall has an external batter in the south wall. Only traces of the external jambs of two pointed windows survive above the eastern arch of the south aisle, where they were blocked up when the south transept was built. South Aisle Only small fragments of the west and south walls of the south aisle remain. The south wall is represented by about 1m of footings at the east end and the west wall is very collapsed. The former roof line is indicated by a series of corbels in the south wall of the nave. The aisle was linked to the nave by three pointed arches, with chamfered rectangular - KE020-046003: Round tower, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046003-. Graveyard survey carried out in 2012 by Laurence Dunne identified the precise location of the site of the round tower. Site of round tower described by Dunne (2012, 3, 20, 33) as; 'The complex also contained a 36m high round tower that collapsed in 1771. A few in situ stones corresponding to the basal courses of the round tower are still discernible today as well as a number of ex situ ones scattered around the immediate area. A 19th century tomb (No. 38) [belonging to the Harmon family] partially extends over the round tower site (Barrington 1976, 252). Round tower described by Toal (1995, no. 971) as; 'It is difficult to obtain an accurate description of the tower from the various 17th and 18th century sources, which vary greatly in their accounts. The earliest reference we have to the tower is on a drawing by Henry Pratt in 1697; it is marked as one of the buildings on the Ardfert ecclesiastical site. Charles Smith (1756) states that 'opposite to the west of the cathedral stands one of the ancient round towers, near a hundred feet high, built mostly of a dark kind of marble, which is the first I have met with, that was not composed of freestone. The door of this tower faces the west entrance of the cathedral, that the penitents who were formerly enclosed therein might receive the pardon and prayers of the congregation as they went in and out of the church.' O'Halloran (1778) writes of the tower as being 120 feet high, as does the author of A Tour through Ireland (1780). The tower was found by Dr Pococke (c 1853) to have measured 150 feet in height. The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland states that the round tower had a slated roof and was 120 feet in height. While there were quite a few discrepancies as regards the height of the tower, similar confusion arose with regard to its destruction. O'Halloran (1778) states that it fell down in 1771. In Gough's Camden's Britannia (1789), he states that it 'being neglected fell to the ground 1771'. Dr Beaufort in his Memoir of the Map of Ireland (1792) talks of it 'tumbling at one crash into a heap of ruins' in 1770. Seward in Topographica Hibernia supports a 1770 date but states that 'a great part of it fell', not, as Beaufort had suggested, that the entire tower had come tumbling down. De Latocnayne (1796) states: 'it crushed itself, if the expression may be used, some twelve or fifteen years ago. I say “crushed” because one would expect that such a building would naturally fall to one side or other, but in this case the stones appeared to tumble straight down forming a large mass on the spot where the tower had stood.' In Twixt Skellig and Scattery (1932), Ó Ríordáin gives the description that survives in local folklore: 'It was 120 feet high and weathered the storms of 3,000 years before it fell in A.D. 1771. The storm that felled it was the worst in the history of our country. Tradition says it lay intact full length towards the west – the storm blew from the east. Thus it lay several years until broken up with difficulty. It provided stones for enclosing the graveyard and building the houses of old Ardfert. Vandals drew away some of the foundation stones of the tower before the great storm, or else it would be today a proud and precious relic of our pagan past.' Round tower described in the Urban Survey of Kerry as follows; 'A round tower stood to the west of the cathedral (KE020-046002-) until 1771 until it fell in a storm. A modern sign south-west of the cathedral states that its foundations were uncovered in 1949 (Barrow 1979, 113)' (Bradley et al. 1987, 36-7). See attached photographs of base of round tower courtesy of Laurence Dunne. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 6 May 2022 - KE020-046004: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046004-. Unclear what grave-slab is referred to here. The SMR file mentions many uninscribed grave-slabs within the Cathedral and one with has the effigies of a Bishop lying in his Pontificalibus, said to have been the tomb of Bishop Stack, who died in 1488. Elizabeth Byrne, 18 May 2006 - KE020-046005: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046005-. Ardfert Castle (site of). The castle originally lay E of Ardfert Cathedral (KE020-046002-) between the cathedral and the Ardfert parish rooms. Built by Lord Kerry in 1570 to replace the ancient castle built by his ancestors in 1311 during the reign of King Edward II. According to the Calender of State Papers Relating to Ireland Ardfert Castle was besieged in 1580, and in 1582 Thomas Fitzmaurice, Lord of Kerry, twice besieged the English garrison which held it. On the second occasion the English were forced to withdraw from the town after incurring heavy casualties. The castle fell in 1600 to Sir Charles Wilmot, and the account of the siege and final capitulation is recorded in Pacata Hibernia (1633): 'Ardfert for some nine days made good defence, and had burned with fireworks such boards and timber as Sir Charles had placed against the wall of the castle for his men's safety as they under-mined. But at the last, Sir Charles sent for a saker out of an Englishman's ship (which one Hill, the master, lent him), with a purpose only to break open the door of the castle for the walls were too strong for so small a piece to offend. The rebels at the sight of the saker yielded; Sir Charles hanged the constable; the rest of the ward, which was but eight with the women and children were spared.' The castle was then rebuilt by Lord Kerry (Patrick Fitzmaurice) in 1637. However, after siding with the Puritans during the Cromwellian war he had to quit his castle which he did on 13 February 1642 and fled to England. On the direction of the Council of the Confederates in Kerry, Captain Patrick Lawlor burnt Ardfert Castle to the ground. No trace of this structure can be seen today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1013. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013 - KE020-046007: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046007-. National Monument No. 54. Templenahoe described in the Urban Survey of Kerry as follows; 'Only the nave of this church survives and originally it would have stretched further to the east, close to the Romanesque west front of the cathedral (KE020-046002-). Its features suggest a date of c. 1170-80. It was a simple nave and chancel structure but only the nave survives at present, measuring 11 by 6.5m. Short sections of the N and S walls of the chancel are still attached to the crossing wall and the gable line of the steeply pitched chancel roof is present. The masonry consists of uncoursed limestone and sandstone with dressed red sandstone quoins and jambs. The quoins are marked by three-quarter columns and there is an eaves-course along the side walls with short returns onto the E and W walls. The eaves course and quoin capitals (based on cushion forms) are decorated with scallop patterns, bosses and heads. The NE quoin and corner of the building is largely rebuilt. The east wall stands of a height of c. 8m and has a large weathered chancel arch of two orders, but originally consisting of three. The inner arch is decorated on the internal face and soffit with chevron design of low rounded mouldings and nail head ornament. The imposts had foliage patterns, bosses and buds. The face of the outer arch has three bands of mouldings separated by bands of nail-head which is very weathered. The N wall stands to a height of 6m and the east end, where Leask (1955-60, 155) noted the position of a window, is largely rebuilt. Towards the W end is a single-light round arched window with sloping sandstone sill. It originally had sandstone jambs but these are largely replaced with pick-dressed limestone. The rear arch is flat lintelled. The S wall is of similar height and the middle section is rebuilt. There is a very fine round arched red sandstone window at the E end of the wall. The opening is narrow but is widely splayed internally and it has a sloping sill. The window is bordered internally and externally with a frieze of floral and foliage patterns separated by whorls and mouldings. The W gable is complete, c. 9.5m high, with a trabeate window with sandstone jambs high in the gable and round arched door of two orders. The jambs and voussoirs are damaged and undecorated. Externally the inner order was stepped and chamfered and the outer order projects outwards from the wall surface. The hood moulding over the door is decorated with conical bosses and the stops consisted of animal heads although only the S one survives' (Bradley et. al. 1987, 33-5). Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 6 May 2022 - KE020-046008: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046008-. The S, E and W wall foundations of the pre-Romanesque church (KE020-046008-) were uncovered within the cathedral (KE020-046002-); it would appear to have measured c 18m E-W x 6m N-S (Excavations, 1991). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 969. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 September 2013 - KE020-046010: Ecclesiastical enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046010-. No trace survives of an enclosure but the curve in the main road to the West of Templenagriffen may preserve the line of the former western boundary. The long rectangular graveyard is all that remains of the old monastery and it contains the ruins of two Romanesque buildings, Templenahoe and the fragmentary west end incorporated into St. Brendan's Cathedral. The site of a round tower is also known. The above description is derived from Bradley, J., et al. 1987 Urban Archaeology Survey Part XIV County Kerry (23, no.6). Unpublished report. Office of Public Works. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 10 January 2012 - KE020-046011: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046011-. Ardfert graveyard was surveyed and described by Laurence Dunne in 2012 as follows; 'The early Medieval monastic complex of structures, cathedral and graveyard is situated on the northern limits of the village Ardfert circa 8 km north of Tralee. The complex includes the excavated and conserved ruins of a medieval cathedral [KE020-046002-] whose chronology extends between the 11th to the 17th centuries. There are two other extant structures including the 12th century church known as ‘Templenahoe’ [KE020-046007-] and a later 15th century church called ‘Templenagriffin’ [KE020-046001-] that has been recently conserved and restored. The complex also contained a 36m high round tower [KE020-046003-] that collapsed in 1771. A few in situ stones corresponding to the basal courses of the round tower are still discernible today as well as a number of ex situ ones scattered around the immediate area. A 19th century tomb (No. 38) partially extends over the round tower site (Barrington 1976, 252). The cathedral was fully excavated by Fionnbarr Moore, senior archaeologist with the NMS, over a seven year period in tandem with major conservation works carried out by Grellan Rourke of the OPW. These works have now been completed and Ardfert cathedral is now a managed visitor centre open to the public. All excavated interments in the cathedral were reburied in the newer section of the graveyard abutting the old one at the east. Three entrances are available-two of which lead into the old graveyard area that encompasses the historic churches and cathedral while the third leads directly into the newer graveyard section abutting the older one at the east end. There is another separate entrance into the visitor centre via the main door of the south transept directly from the kerbside. A high iron gate is set between two square limestone piers at the SE end of the south boundary wall a little to the east of the south transept. A modern galvanised gate provides access into the western area of the graveyard and is in good order. Entrance into the newer graveyard area is provided for by a pair of iron gates in poor order, neglected and rusted. The gates are set between a pair of solid square limestone piers with ‘soldier’ capping. Abutting the east pier is a squeeze-stile made from slate. The southern boundary wall extending west from the south transept is circa 1.8m high and is constructed with rubble limestone bonded in mortar with the mid section laid to courses. The west limits of the graveyard is enclosed buy a stone wall outside of which and abutting the OPW use as a works depot. There is a breach in the north-west corner of the wall. The east party wall between the old and lower newer graveyard is uncapped and virtually covered in ivy. The north boundary parallel to the cathedral is constructed with rubble limestone and is in general good order although ivy has established itself. Further west the area around the two churches is enclosed by a modern green chain-link fence. The lower newer graveyard is enclosed by a low rubble limestone wall with rounded cement capping along its south-east and northern limits. A strong growth of ivy has established itself along the north and north-eastern sections of the wall. There are eighty-eight, (88), tombs in Ardfert graveyard. The vast majority of which (80) are situated within the older medieval graveyard area. The tombs are the haunched ‘strong-box’ type as well as gabled house type as well. Only one tomb, TB60, contained a reused medieval masonry fragment comprising a chamfered limestone block, No. 18. A total of 224 named and generally modern headstones (HS) were recorded. The vast majority are modern and in good order and in the main are distributed across the newer graveyard area (circa 60%) to the east. However, in the older medieval area of the graveyard there are a number of very fine 18th and 19th century headstones that are very fine carved and decorated. There are 402 uninscribed rough unhewn gravemarkers dispersed throughout the older medieval graveyard with only five situated in the later newer graveyard area to the east. A total of twenty-seven (27) horizontal graveslabs were recorded at Ardfert. There are twenty (20) architectural fragments in Ardfert graveyard. The vast majority (13) are clustered together both in situ (3) and ex situ (10 ) associated with the round tower that collapsed in 1771. One of the masonry fragments (AF 1) is painted white and comprises a section of a 15th century window mullion and stands within a formal graveyard immediately inside the west entrance gateway beside the pathway. A single holed or perforated unnamed gravemarker was recorded in the old graveyard area a little to the west of the south transept' (Dunne 2012, 3-11). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 May 2022 - KE020-046013: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046013-. Cross-slab. 13th/14th cents. Tapering limestone slab with chamfered edges. Inside chancel's south door. The wide end is decorated with a Maltese cross in very low relief. Dims: L. 182 W. 44-29 D. 17.5 FitzGerald 1917-20, 205. The above description is derived from Bradley, J., et al. 1987 Urban Archaeology Survey Part XIV County Kerry (31-2). Unpublished report. Office of Public Works. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 10 January 2012 - KE020-046019: Wall monument - effigial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046019-. Effigy of a bishop. 13th cent. Set upright into the niche on the south side of the east window. Carved in false relief under a cusped pointed arch with foliate decoration on a green sandstone slab. Bearded figure dressed in alb, dalmatic and chasuble, with mitre, amice and fringed embroidered orphreys. His right hand is raised in blessing and the left hand holds an inturned crozier with animal head. Angels rest on his shoulders. Dims: H. 186 W. 44 T. 24. The above description is derived from Bradley, J., et al. 1987 Urban Archaeology Survey Part XIV County Kerry (31; fig. 7). Unpublished report. Office of Public Works. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 December 2011 - KE020-046020: Wall monument - effigial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046020-. Effigy of a bishop. 13th cent. Rectangular limestone slab set upright in the niche on the north side of the east window. The head and feet of the effigy are carved in relief but the centre of the badly fragmented slab appears to be uncarved. The surface is very worn. The figure wears an alb, chasuble, an amice and mitre. The ears are carved flat, the right hand is raised in blessing and the left hand holds an inturned jewelled crozier. Two angels rest on his shoulders. Dims: H 226 W. 54 T. 6 (min). The above description is derived from Bradley, J., et al. 1987 Urban Archaeology Survey Part XIV County Kerry (31). Unpublished report. Office of Public Works. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 December 2011 - KE020-046021: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046021-. Uninscribed tapering slab. ?13th/14th cents. Limestone. In chancel. Moulded edges. L. 218 W. 79-58 T. 16 The above description is derived from Bradley, J., et al. 1987 Urban Archaeology Survey Part XIV County Kerry (32). Unpublished report. Office of Public Works. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 10 January 2012 - KE020-046022: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046022-. Uninscribed tapering slab. ?13th/14th cents. Limestone. In chancel. Moulded edges. L. 195 W. 61-51 T. 12 The above description is derived from Bradley, J., et al. 1987 Urban Archaeology Survey Part XIV County Kerry (32). Unpublished report. Office of Public Works. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 10 January 2012 - KE020-046023: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046023-. Uninscribed tapering slab. ?13th/14th cents. Limestone. In chancel. Moulded edges. L. 181 W. 68-52 T. unknown The above description is derived from Bradley, J., et al. 1987 Urban Archaeology Survey Part XIV County Kerry (32). Unpublished report. Office of Public Works. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 10 January 2012 - KE020-046024: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046024-. Cross-slab. 15th. cent. Tapering limestone slab inserted as the sill of the north window in the ground floor of the vestry. It has moulded edges and what is possibly the end of a shears on one side. There are two parallel lines with cross-hatching between on the inner side of the slab. Dims: L. 119 W. 53-47 T. 16 (min). The above description is derived from Bradley, J., et al. 1987 Urban Archaeology Survey Part XIV County Kerry (32). Unpublished report. Office of Public Works. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 11 January 2012 - KE020-046025: Armorial plaque, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046025-. Heraldic plaque. 16th cent. Limestone shield decorated in false relief within a moulded frame. On transept's E wall. The arms are on a heater shaped shield, divided per pale. Dexter a lion rampart with two left hands in chief for Crosbie; three martlets in pale with a lion passant-guardant on the flaunches for Browne. The shield is surrounded by mantling and the crest is a circle pierced by three swords, a rosette and a wolf with wings? couped. The inscription below the shield is in Gothic lettering INDIGNANTE/ INVIDIA FLOREBIT IUSTUS. Dims: H. 56 W. 52. FitzGerald 1917-20, 210-11 The above description is derived from Bradley, J., et al. 1987 Urban Archaeology Survey Part XIV County Kerry (32-3). Unpublished report. Office of Public Works. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 11 January 2012 - KE020-046026: Armorial plaque, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046026-. Heraldic plaque. 16th cent. Inserted in east wall of vestry. Rectangular. Carved in relief with a heater shaped shield which has ermines in chief above a saltire. Dims: H. 41 W. 32 The above description is derived from Bradley, J., et al. 1987 Urban Archaeology Survey Part XIV County Kerry (33). Unpublished report. Office of Public Works. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 11 January 2012 - KE020-046027: Tomb - table tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046027-. Honora. Lady Dowager of Kerry 1668. Limestone table tomb. In the vestry. Undecorated. Incised marginal inscription in Roman capitals: THIS MONVMENT WAS ERECTED AND CHAPPLE REEDIFIED IN THE YEARE 1668 BY THE RIGHT HONOVR/ ABLE HANORA LADY DOWAGER OF KERRY FOR HERSELF HER/ CHILDREN AND THEIR POSTERITY ONLY ACCORDING TO HER AGREEMENT [WITH THE DEAN AND CHAPTER] Dims: L. 213 W. 105 T.11. Hickson 1888-91, 403-4 The above description is derived from Bradley, J., et al. 1987 Urban Archaeology Survey Part XIV County Kerry (33). Unpublished report. Office of Public Works. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 11 January 2012 - KE020-046028: Ogham stone (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046028-. This stone (1.56 high; 0.28m by 0.19m wide) was found in a field opposite the site of the former protestant church (see KE020-046029-). It is currently on display in the south transept of the cathedral. The stone is a badly damaged limestone pillar with the inscription on one edge. The decipherable letters read 'CT[A(?)]Ṇ[ ̣ ̣ ? ̣ ̣]/QLỌG̣[ ̣ ̣ ? ̣ ̣]' (Macalister 1945, 132-3). (Bradley et al. 1987, 30-1) 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: http://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=136 Updated by: Nora White Date of upload: 9 March 2017 - KE020-046030: Ogham stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-046030-. This ogham stone (0.86m x 0.23m x 0.15m) was found incorporated in the fabric of the N wall of Temple-na-Griffin (KE020-046001-) where it is now housed (Moore 2007, 37). The inscription is badly damaged with some text surviving on two angles (up-down?), pocked in bold scores: ỌC[ ̣ ̣ ? ̣ ̣]/[ ̣ ̣ ? ̣ ̣]GIC[ ̣ ̣ ? ̣ ̣]. 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: http://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=Ardfert_II Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 31 December 2014 - KE020-047: Religious house - Franciscan friars, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-047----. National Monument No. 358. Ardfert Franciscan friary was described in the Urban Survey of Kerry as follows; 'Since at least the seventeenth century the foundation date of this friary has been placed at c. 1253 (Jennings 1934, 153) but it is likely that this date is based on the misreading of a fifteenth century inscription (Nicholls 1970, 24-5; FitzMaurice and Little 1920,19). The earliest surviving contemporary reference to the friary occurs in 1307 when grain was stolen from a chest in the church (Mills 1914, 408). Thereafter little is known of the friary's history until 1584 when the friars were expelled by the English (Jennings 1934, 153). Hickson (1895, 33) states that the church tower was subsequently occupied by English soldiers. In 1587 the friary was granted to the English planters, Walshingham and Denny (Brewer and Bullen 1868, 451). Brady (1867, xvii) states that John Crosbie, who was appointed bishop of Ardfert in 1600, settled at the friary, which remained in the hands of the Crosbie family until the twentieth century. In 1629 the Franciscan historian Matthews noted that the family of FitzMaurice of Kerry one of whom was the founder, had their tombs in the friary (Jennings 1934, 153) and later writers also describe the friary as the main burial place of the FitzMaurice lords of Kerry or Lixnaw (FitzMaurice and Little 1920, 20; Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 242). The friary consists of a church and a cloister with remains of the claustral buildings on its north side. The church is essentially a thirteenth century structure onto which a transept and west tower were added in the fifteenth century. The cloister and north range is of fifteenth century date. The Church This is an undifferentiated nave and chancel building with a west tower, and an aisle and an aisled transept on the south. The long undifferentiated nave and chancel measures 41 by 7.6m and its thirteenth century rubble masonry consists of uncoursed mixed limestone and sandstone The jambs and quoins are of red and green sandstone. The Chancel The east gable, supported by stepped angle buttresses, stands almost to its full height of 10m and its moulded sandstone coping is in situ. In the east wall are five graded lancets with dressed chamfered jambs under a conjoined pointed hood moulding. Internally they have pointed rear arches and dressed chamfered jambs. The north and south windows are missing their rear arches but the jambs consist of a banded roll moulding, with nail-head ornament, rising from moulded bases. Above the central lancet is a small splayed pointed window with chamfered jambs and flat intelled rear arch which lit a loft above the chancel. At either side of the gable the parapet, in roughly coursed grey limestone, continues from the side walls The angle buttresses contain some jambs indicating that some rebuilding has occurred. The north wall stands to an average height of 5m but much of the internal facing was rebuilt in grey roughly coursed limestone in the 19th century. This rebuilding included the construction of two round arched recesses which are supposed to imitate the original ones. The south wall stands to a height of 9m the lower 6m of which is thirteenth century masonry. The upper 3m includes the parapet with a drainage course some 6.5m above ground level. The wall is lit by nine lancets with externally chamfered jambs they have rounded rear-arches, some with traces of plank centering, and a wide internal splay. The scontions are trefoil-headed with dressed sandstone mouldings and jambs. Below the windows are five niches. The first two of these from the east are probably sixteenth century insertion. They are round arched with chamfered limestone jambs and one contains a nineteenth century memorial. The third niche is also round arched, with rounded pilasters and one nailhead capital on the west; it had sandstone hood moulding with pinnacles but only the west side survives. The fourth has a trefoil headed arch of sandstone supported on sixteenth century demi-octagonal limestone pilasters. The fifth recess is an inserted sixteenth century tomb niche with rounded moulded arch and an ogee-headed hood moulding, crocketed and pinnacled, of limestone. Externally stepped buttresses of grey limestone, probably of fifteenth century date and contemporary with the parapet, are present between the third and fourth, and the sixth and seventh windows from the east. The Sacristy This building had two floors but only the east wall survives to its original height of 5m. A short low section of the north wall also remains. A modern door opens from the chancel of the church. The ground floor was lit by a small twin-light ogee-headed window with tooled, chamfered limestone jambs and flattened rear-arch. The Nave The north wall survives only at the west end where it stands to a maximum external height of 9m. It is largely rebuilt but it includes a flat lintelled opening from the west range into the nave, and a large round arched recess. The west wall was substantially rebuilt following the construction of the west tower but there are two lines of dressed sandstone jambs which probably belonged to the original 13th century west windows. The wall is now pierced by six openings from the tower. An external batter rising to a height of 1.5m survives on the west wall of the nave and south aisle. The south wall consists largely of an arcade of four arches linking the nave with the south aisle and transept. At its northern end, a round headed-doorway with chamfered limestone jambs of 16th century style, opens into the transept, and inserted above it is an ogee headed chamfered limestone window. Two corbels protrude east of this door, and below the western corbel is a vertical row of put-log holes which may indicate the location of the rood screen. The parapet was evidently added after the construction of the transept because it contains two flat lintelled doors which open onto the former east and west wall-walk of the transept. It is also later than the west tower. Tower This six floored structure is built of well dressed regularly coursed masonry. The entrance to the ground floor is from the NW Corner of the nave. The walls are very thick and the room was lit by deep splayed embrasures with narrow flat arched and lintelled slits. The openings to the south and west have sloping sills and that on the south has an internal and external splay. There is a small wall cupboard in the east wall. The first floor timbers were supported on corbels in the N and S walls and morticed into holes in the E and W walls. Over the first floor is a pointed barrel vault. Opening east into the church is a large rectangular door, missing its rear-arch and internal jambs. Two slits similar to those on the ground floor light the room from the south and west. The second floor is reached from an external stair incorporated into the west range and the chamber is entered through a flat lintelled passage in the thickness of the north wall. The passage has a small chamber close to the entrance on the west which is lit from the west by a splayed rectangular slit with chamfered limestone jambs and flat lintelled rear arch. A stair (now blocked) east of the passage led onto the north wall walk of the church and continued to the third floor of the west range. Further to the south the passage has a round headed opening looking into the nave of the church. The second floor chamber was lit from the west by a splayed ogee headed window with chamfered limestone jambs, flat lintelled rear-arch and window seat. Opening from the north end of the west wall is a flat lintelled passage running NE and N to the west range; it is lit by a splayed flat lintelled slit in the west wall. The east and north walls are featureless although there is some blocking in the east wall. A rectangular door in the east end of the south wall opens onto two sets of stairs; one runs SE and opens onto the wall walk over the S wal - KE020-047001: Sheela-na-gig, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-047001-. National Monument No. 358. Notes from a letter written dated 03/01/1980 to the National Museum of Ireland in which it was claimed of a 'discovery made at Ardfert priory while [conservation] works were in progress of a sheela-na-gig carved in limestone 2 feet [0.6m] square. He claims that the workmen [OPW] unseated it fairly high up in the western wall of the tower' (SMR File). No trace of this carving has been identified on the tower of the Franciscan Friary (KE020-047----). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 May 2022 - KE020-047002: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-047002-. National Monument No. 358. According to the 'Urban Archaeology Survey of County Kerry' (Bradley, Halpin and King n.d., 49), this is one of 'nine limestone slabs of undetermined date' which lie on the ground in the floor of the church of the Franciscan friary (KE020-047----). See also KE020-047003-, KE020-047004-, KE020-047005-, KE020-047006-, KE020-047007-, KE020-047008-, KE020-047009-, KE020-047010-). Compiled by: Sheila Ronan Date of upload: 11 January 2012 - KE020-047003: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-047003-. National Monument No. 358. According to the 'Urban Archaeology Survey of County Kerry' (Bradley, Halpin and King n.d., 49), this is one of 'nine limestone slabs of undetermined date' which lie on the ground in the floor of the church of the Franciscan friary (KE020-047----). See also KE020-047002-, KE020-047004-, KE020-047005-, KE020-047006-, KE020-047007-, KE020-047008-, KE020-047009-, KE020-047010-). Compiled by: Sheila Ronan Date of upload: 11 January 2012 - KE020-047004: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-047004-. National Monument No. 358. According to the 'Urban Archaeology Survey of County Kerry' (Bradley, Halpin and King n.d., 49), this is one of 'nine limestone slabs of undetermined date' which lie on the ground in the floor of the church of the Franciscan friary (KE020-047----). See also KE020-047002-, KE020-047003-, KE020-047005-, KE020-047006-, KE020-047007-, KE020-047008-, KE020-047009-, KE020-047010-). Compiled by: Sheila Ronan Date of upload: 11 January 2012 - KE020-047005: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-047005-. National Monument No. 358. According to the 'Urban Archaeology Survey of County Kerry' (Bradley, Halpin and King n.d., 49), this is one of 'nine limestone slabs of undetermined date' which lie on the ground in the floor of the church of the Franciscan friary (KE020-047----). See also KE020-047002-, KE020-047003-, KE020-047004-, KE020-047006-, KE020-047007-, KE020-047008-, KE020-047009-, KE020-047010-). Compiled by: Sheila Ronan Date of upload: 11 January 2012 - KE020-047006: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-047006-. National Monument No. 358. According to the 'Urban Archaeology Survey of County Kerry' (Bradley, Halpin and King n.d., 49), this is one of 'nine limestone slabs of undetermined date' which lie on the ground in the floor of the church of the Franciscan friary (KE020-047----). See also KE020-047002-, KE020-047003-, KE020-047004-, KE020-047005-, KE020-047007-, KE020-047008-, KE020-047009-, KE020-047010-). Compiled by: Sheila Ronan Date of upload: 11 January 2012 - KE020-047007: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-047007-. National Monument No. 358. According to the 'Urban Archaeology Survey of County Kerry' (Bradley, Halpin and King n.d., 49), this is one of 'nine limestone slabs of undetermined date' which lie on the ground in the floor of the church of the Franciscan friary (KE020-047----). See also KE020-047002-, KE020-047003-, KE020-047004-, KE020-047005-, KE020-047006-, KE020-047008-, KE020-047009-, KE020-047010-). Compiled by: Sheila Ronan Date of upload: 11 January 2012 - KE020-047008: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-047008-. National Monument No. 358. According to the 'Urban Archaeology Survey of County Kerry' (Bradley, Halpin and King n.d., 49), this is one of 'nine limestone slabs of undetermined date' which lie on the ground in the floor of the church of the Franciscan friary (KE020-047----). See also KE020-047002-, KE020-047003-, KE020-047004-, KE020-047005-, KE020-047006-, KE020-047007-, KE020-047009-, KE020-047010-). Compiled by: Sheila Ronan Date of upload: 11 January 2012 - KE020-047009: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-047009-. National Monument No. 358. According to the 'Urban Archaeology Survey of County Kerry' (Bradley, Halpin and King n.d., 49), this is one of 'nine limestone slabs of undetermined date' which lie on the ground in the floor of the church of the Franciscan friary (KE020-047----). See also KE020-047002-, KE020-047003-, KE020-047004-, KE020-047005-, KE020-047006-, KE020-047007-, KE020-047008-, KE020-047010-). Compiled by: Sheila Ronan Date of upload: 11 January 2012 - KE020-047010: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-047010-. National Monument No. 358. According to the 'Urban Archaeology Survey of County Kerry' (Bradley, Halpin and King n.d., 49), this is one of 'nine limestone slabs of undetermined date' which lie on the ground in the floor of the church of the Franciscan friary (KE020-047----). See also KE020-047002-, KE020-047003-, KE020-047004-, KE020-047005-, KE020-047006-, KE020-047007-, KE020-047008-, KE020-047009-). Compiled by: Sheila Ronan Date of upload: 11 January 2012 - KE020-047011: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-047011-. National Monument No. 358. 'Cross-slab. 13th/14th cents. Limestone. Chamfered. Set into recess in the chancel's S wall. Incised floriated cross. Dims: L. 191 W. 52-35 FitzGerald 1910-12, 569.' The above description is from Bradley, J., et al. 1987 Urban Archaeology Survey Part XIV County Kerry. Unpublished report. Office of Public Works. Date of upload: 12 January 2012 - KE020-047012: Tomb - effigial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-047012-. National Monument No. 358. Episcopal slab. 13th/14th cents. In chancel. Tapering limestone slab with moulded edges, and missing the lower left corner. The wide end of the slab has the head of a bishop under a multi-cusped and pinnacled ogee-headed canopy in deep false relief. There are three small heads carved in the cusps, a circular trefoil design in the left spandrel and a worn circular design in the right spandrel. Dims: L. 144 W 57-38. Effigy of a bishop or abbot described by Hunt (1974, 152-3) as; 'In the middle of the church lies a wedge shaped slab carved in flat relief with a mitred head and with five smaller heads disposed beside and above it, beneath an ogee cusped arch. On the dexter an inturned crozier with a decorated head of circular form, on the sinister, a spear (?). The slab is very much worn and defaced and the carving is scarcely visible. The style is provincial, and the slab probably dates to the early fourteenth century'. The above description is derived from Bradley, J., et al. 1987 Urban Archaeology Survey Part XIV County Kerry (48). Unpublished report. Office of Public Works. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. See attached drawing of slab by William F, Wakeman dated 1894, taken from Hickson 1895. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 9 May 2022 - KE020-047014: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-047014-. National Monument No. 358. Cross-slab. ?14th/15th cents. Tapering limestone slab decorated in false relief with a cross on a stepped calvary. There is possible INRI in the base. The head of the cross consists of six square panels of foliage and the stem is a two line twisted stem. Dims: L. 179 W. 62-39 Hickson 1895, pl. opp. p. 38. See attached drawing of slab by William F, Wakeman dated 1894, taken from Hickson 1895. The above description is derived from Bradley, J., et al. 1987 Urban Archaeology Survey Part XIV County Kerry (48). Unpublished report. Office of Public Works. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 10 May 2022 - KE020-047015: Inscribed stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-047015-. National Monument No. 358. See the 'Urban Archaeology Survey of County Kerry' (Bradley, Halpin and King n.d., 44). This plaque is inserted into the pier buttress of the south isle of the cathedral (KE020-047----). The plaque 'bears the following inscription in a debased Lombardic script: DONALDVS NIGER O'HEA FRATER MINOR FECIT HOC OPVS PRO AO D MCCCCLIIII [1454]' (Bradley, Halpin and King ibid.). Compiled by: Sheila Ronan Date of upload: 12 January 2012 - KE020-048: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-048----. Purseman's Fort. This sub-circular enclosure is not marked on the 1842 OS map, but it appears on the later OS map in a forested area. No surface trace survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 666. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013 - KE021-108: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE021-108----. Internal diameter 54m N-S, 48.6m E-W This univallate ringfort consists of a circular area enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The enclosing bank is constructed of earth and stone and rises to an average of 1.4m above the interior and 2.9m above the fosse. The external fosse is well defined, on average 1.6m wide and 1.2m deep. A 6m wide entrance lies to the SE. It was probably stone lined and, from the amount of stones visible at this sector, it is possible that there was a stone causeway leading to the entrance, though this cannot be seen today. The interior is at a higher level than the surrounding land. Contained in the interior are three mounds, two in the centre and one towards the SW sector; these are possibly the remains of house sites (KE021-108001-, KE021-108002- and KE021-108003-). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 712. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013 - KE021-108001: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE021-108001-. Univallate ringfort KE021-108---- consists of a circular area enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The interior contained three mounds, two in the centre and one towards the SW sector; these are possibly the remains of house sites (KE021-108001-, KE021-108002- and KE021-108003-). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 712. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013 - KE021-108002: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE021-108002-. Univallate ringfort KE021-108---- consists of a circular area enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The interior contained three mounds, two in the centre and one towards the SW sector; these are possibly the remains of house sites (KE021-108001-, KE021-108002- and KE021-108003-). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 712. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013 - KE021-108003: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE021-108003-. Univallate ringfort KE021-108---- consists of a circular area enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The interior contained three mounds, two in the centre and one towards the SW sector; these are possibly the remains of house sites (KE021-108001-, KE021-108002- and KE021-108003-). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 712. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 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) - Saint Brendan's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1850–1860, Regional interest, registry number 21302001, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KE®no=21302001. Freestanding six-bay single- and double-height early-English Gothic Revival style Roman Catholic church, dated 1855, designed by J.J. McCarthy. Comprising five-bay double-height nave with six-bay single-storey lean-to aisles to north and to south elevations, single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to south elevation, single-bay three-stage tower to south-west corner on a square plan having hexagonal broach spire, single-bay double-height lower chancel to east gable end with two-bay single-storey lean-to sacristy to south-east corner. Renovated internally, c. 1885. Pitched slate roof to nave with clay ridge comb, lean-to slate roofs to aisle, gable parapets with ashlar copings and carved springers and having ashlar hexagonal broach spire. Snecked limestone walls, with buttresses to aisle walls, cruciform iron tie plates to clerestory and having profiled battered base to tower. Trefoil-headed lancets to south wall, paired to aisle, single to clerestory. Single lancets to north aisle and quatrefoils to clerestory. Triple lancet chancel window. Tracery to west windows. Projecting gabled south porch with hood mouldings to doorways. Open scissor-truss roof to nave interior with iron ties. Lean-to aisles with pointed arched arcades on painted limestone columns. Plaster stripped from walls and rubble pointed with cement. Chancel reordered retaining carved stone reredos. Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers and mausolea, c. 1860-present. Gateway, built c. 1885, to south comprising four limestone ashlar early-English Gothic Revival style piers with wrought-iron gates having Celtic Cross style finials. Detached five-bay two-storey presbytery, built c. 1880, to south-west retaining original aspect with door opening to centre having moulded architrave and hood mouldings to window openings. Attached three-bay two-storey rubble stone-built outbuilding, built c. 1880, at right angles to north-west on a T-shaped plan with four-bay single-storey wing to north-east. - Talbot-Crosbie Memorial Fountain, monument, 1900–1905, Regional interest, registry number 21302003, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KE®no=21302003. Freestanding Hiberno Romanesque style memorial fountain, dated 1901. Comprising limestone ashlar plinth on a square-plan with shaft, having Romanesque sawtooth carving to red sandstone arches on corner pillars, having inscribed cast-iron plaque and pyramidal capping with corbelled eaves. Bronze plaque inscribed: "1901 The Ardfert Water Supply was provided by Lieut Colonel Talbot-Crosbie and this fountain erected to his memory and for the public good by his brother Lindsay Talbot-Crosbie of Ardfert Abbey". - Ardfert Parish Room, church hall/parish hall, 1910–1920, Regional interest, registry number 21302004, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KE®no=21302004. Detached three-bay single-storey meeting hall with dormer attic, built c. 1915, with single-bay single-storey crow-stepped gabled projecting porch to left, crow-stepped gable ends and single-bay single-storey recessed end bay to east. Built by local landlord Lindsey Talbot. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs with red clay ridge tiles (missing from main roof), limestone crow-step to gables, and having red brick chimneystack with stone cornice. Red brick English garden bond walls with projecting plinth. Pedimented limestone name plaque to west gable. Timber multiple pane casement windows with limestone sills, lintels and mullions and having chamfered brick reveals. Projecting gabled porch having round-headed doorway with brick arch. Square-headed doorway to east end with limestone lintel. Gateway, built c. 1915, to south comprising pair of red brick piers with limestone ashlar capping having wrought-iron gates and railings. Stone boundary walls with rounded copings. ## 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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_71, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_71.zip (ZIP). - 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/ardfert.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ardfert.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ardfert.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ardfert 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) - Brandonwell: https://everytownland.com/kerry/brandonwell.md - Cloon Glebe: https://everytownland.com/kerry/cloon-glebe.md - Commons East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/commons-east.md - Farranwilliam: https://everytownland.com/kerry/farranwilliam.md - Sackville: https://everytownland.com/kerry/sackville.md - Skrillagh: https://everytownland.com/kerry/skrillagh.md - Tubrid More: https://everytownland.com/kerry/tubrid-more.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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ardfert - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/ardfert