Arraglen

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Arraglen, from 4,624,936 m² (462.49 ha, 1,142.85 acres) to 4,624,936 m² (462.49 ha, 1,142.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 4 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Arraglen 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Arraglen in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Mount Brandon SAC 000375
• Special Protection Area: Dingle Peninsula SPA 004153
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mount Brandon 000375

Recorded monuments

• KE025-002 Ogham stone (present location)
  Description

  National Monument No. 10029. This is the present position of an ogham stone whose original location (KE025-002001-) is recorded by Cuppage (1986, 248-50, no. 790) as being further upslope. The stone stands in the elevated and exposed gap between Masatiompan and the steep N slopes of Brandon Mountain, and commands a dramatic view to both sides of the mountain range. When first discovered, the stone stood buried in peat to within 2 feet (.6m) of the top (Hitchcock, quoted in Macalister 1945, 140-1). It had fallen by 1937 (Henry 1937, 276), and eventually became buried beneath an accumulation of hillwash and a thin sod cover. It was rediscovered and re-erected in 1982 and again following winter storms in 1995. At that time it was re-erected in a more secure location 4.4m to the NW. Cuppage (1986, no. 790) recorded that local information indicates that the location recorded in 1982 was some 10 to 12m downslope from its original location. It is a smooth sandstone pillar measuring 1.9m high, c. 0.36m wide and c. 0.15m thick. Both faces are inscribed with crosses and there appears to have been some dressing of the stone to prepare surfaces for the carvings. One face bears a Maltese cross with a hook-like expansion at the right side of the upper arm; this is a monogram form of the chi-rho symbol. The opposite face bears a Maltese cross within a circle; the lower arm is linked to the circle by a short, straight stem. An ogham inscription has been carved along both edges and across the top of the former face. It reads: QRIMITIR RON(AN)N MA(Q) COMOGANN which can be translated as Ronán the priest son of Comgán. The top right corner is damaged and the AN recorded by Macalister is unclear as is the Q lower down the same edge. Otherwise the scores are clearly legible. A plinth-like step at the base of the stone suggested to Macalister that a slab had been detached to remove an earlier pagan inscription. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 790. In this instance the entry has been revised and updated. 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/search.php?ciic=145 Revised by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 16 August 2013

• KE025-002001 Ogham stone
  Description

  This record is for the possible original location of this stone which is marked on the OS maps as Brandon Monument. The stone stands in the elevated and exposed gap between Masatiompan and the steep N slopes of Brandon Mountain, and commands a dramatic view to both sides of the mountain range. When first discovered, the stone stood buried in peat to within 2 feet (.6m) of the top (Hitchcock, quoted in Macalister 1945, 140-1). It had fallen by 1937 (Henry 1937, 276), and eventually became buried beneath an accumulation of hillwash and a thin sod cover. It was rediscovered and re-erected in 1982 and again following winter storms in 1995. At that time it was re-erected in a more secure location 4.4m to the NW. Cuppage (1986, no. 790) recorded that local information indicates that the location recorded in 1982 was some 10 to 12m downslope from its original location. The position as indicated here can only be considered as approximate. It is a smooth sandstone pillar measuring 1.9m high, c. 0.36m wide and c. 0.15m thick. Both faces are inscribed with crosses and there appears to have been some dressing of the stone to prepare surfaces for the carvings. One face bears a Maltese cross with a hook-like expansion at the right side of the upper arm; this is a monogram form of the chi-rho symbol. The opposite face bears a Maltese cross within a circle; the lower arm is linked to the circle by a short, straight stem. An ogham inscription has been carved along both edges and across the top of the former face. It reads: QRIMITIR RON(AN)N MA(Q) COMOGANN which can be translated as Ronán the priest son of Comgán. The top right corner is damaged and the AN recorded by Macalister is unclear as is the Q lower down the same edge. Otherwise the scores are clearly legible. A plinth-like step at the base of the stone suggested to Macalister that a slab had been detached to remove an earlier pagan inscription. A 2nd slab (KE025-002002-), now missing, bore the letters M:C 16 June (Windele 1848, 490) or MG 16 IVNE (Hitchcock). On the opposite side were some rude ogham scores. Curran (no.1) recorded the discovery of a 3rd stone embedded in the turf bank. This was a flat stone, about 2.5cm thick, with a circular groove, about .45m in diameter, carved on one face. The outlying portion of the stone had been removed from about half the circumference as if it had been intended to shape it into a circular disc. This has not been located. It has been suggested that the track leading up to the stone from Tiduff village may be an old pilgrims' path and that the stone itself may have been associated with the pilgrimage to Mount Brandon (Harbison, forthcoming). The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 790. In this instance the entry has been revised and updated. 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/search.php?ciic=145 Revised by: Paul Walsh Revised date of upload: 31 December 2014

• KE025-004 Barracks
  Description

  Situated on an N-S running ridge to the N of the summit of Mount Brandon on the N side of the Dingle Peninsula (site 685m OD). The site occupies an exposed high upland location with panoramic views to the W and E in good weather. Located in the gap\saddle between the N slopes of Mount Brandon (952m OD) to the S and Masatiompan (762m OD) to the N. Landscape slopes sharply to the S towards the summit of Brandon but initially gently downwards to N before it rises towards the summit of Masatiompan. The coastline is located c. 1.3kms to the WSW at its closest point. The surrounding area consists of unenclosed rough upland pasture. Site located c. 8.2kms to the ENE of the remains of the signal tower at Ballydavid Head (KE033-027---), and c. 29kms SW of the site of the site of the signal tower (KE013-036----) at Kerry Head, now demolished. An intermediate enclosed barracks site associated with the signal tower network was built between the two adjacent signal tower sites at Rough Point (KE019-007----), located c. 17.1kms to the ENE; this site is now levelled. The site of this signal tower at Brandon is located c. 3.7kms NE of a cashel (KE034-022---) at Baile an Chnocáin, and c. 1.2kms SE of a possible ecclesiastic site (KE025-001001-,) traditionally associated with St. Brendan and indicated as ‘Fohernamangh' on the early Ordnance Survey maps of the site. Site of an early nineteenth-century (c. 1810) two-storey or single-storey over raised basement barracks building associated with the signal tower network with the remains of a surrounding rubble stone enclosure. Possibly originally with a signal mast to site. The site is now consists of mainly of spreads of rubble stone from the collapsed structures although it is still possible to discern the original composition from the extant remains and from the Ordnance Survey maps of the site. These indicate a rectangular-plan enclosure (int. dims 24m N-S x 22m E-W) with remains of square-plan bastions (max Wth c. 2m; survive to max H. of c. 0.9m; site inspection in c. 2014 noted that the bastions appeared to be drystone construction and that the lower courses of the inner face of bastions were visible in places along the W and N sides at this time) to the four corners (NE, SE, SW and NW), and the remains of a collapsed rectangular-plan building to the S side of the centre of the enclosure. This was originally a large T-shaped structure that was probably similar in form to the associated barracks buildings at Bolus Head (KE104-001----) and at Hogs Head (KE105-004----) with a rectangular-plan building with a perpendicular set of freestanding steps used to access a central first floor entrance to the front (to the N\NW in this case). Brandon Head enclosed barracks is indicated on the Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map, surveyed 1841-2, as a rectilinear-plan enclosure with a building located slightly to the S side of centre, and is identified as ‘Signal Tower (in ruins).’ The Ordnance Survey second and third ed. six-inch maps, surveyed 1894-8 and 1914-5 respectively, show the site as a rectilinear-plan enclosure containing no buildings, and mark the site as ‘Signal Tower (site of).’ Mould claims that this site was never completed, having been found ineffective due to ‘mountain mists,’ but does not provide a source for this information (Mould 1994, 24). This would contradict Wakefield’s account of the site as being complete but not occupied in 1808, although there is some uncertainty about whether Wakefield is referring to this site or Ballydavid Head Signal Tower to the SW (Wakefield 1812, 70). The site is one of four enclosed barracks of extremely similar form that were constructed around the coast of County Kerry (Kerrigan 1995, 162-3). Although some uncertainty remains about the age of the sites, all four of the enclosed barracks were likely constructed between 1808 and 1812. The sites seem to have been specifically related to the system of signal towers constructed around the Irish coast between 1804 and 1806, added in areas where intervisibility between signal towers had proved difficult. It is not clear if these larger and more complex additions to the system were designed to house larger signal crews, or if they were designed to house the same size signal crews in more comfort than was to be found at the unpopular signal towers. The enclosed barracks were presumably abandoned in 1815, when the signal towers around the SW coast were decommissioned. Compiled by: Stuart Rathbone Uploaded on: 25/07/22

Architectural heritage

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

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Arraglen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Arraglen · Airghleann

Area

4,623,071 m² (462.31 ha, 1,142.39 acres)

Civil parish

Cloghane, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaguiny

Electoral division

Brandon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Brandon electoral division: 159 people in 66 households; 86% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 28% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynahow, Maghanveel, Teer

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Arraglen 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.