Awnaskirtaun

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Awnaskirtaun, from 253 m² to 525,421 m² (52.54 ha, 129.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Awnaskirtaun 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.

• 12 Aug 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A BUNGALOW DOMESTIC GARAGE, TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER UNIT AND ALL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22855

• 25 Jun 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT AND SANDCEL POLSISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21697

• 11 Jul 2017Conditional

  ERECT A DWELLING HOUSE AND PRIVATE GARAGE SERVED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17663

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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
• Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE068-049 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on the NW-facing slopes of Knocknabro and on the E bank of the Awnaskirtaun River. A circular area (diam. 8m) enclosed by the remains of a collapsed stone wall. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Awnaskirtaun.

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

Name

Awnaskirtaun · Abhainn na Sceartán

Area

4,267,958 m² (426.8 ha, 1,054.64 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Doocarrig, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Doocarrig electoral division: 694 people in 226 households; 91% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherbarnagh (Co. Cork), Knocknabro, Raheen, Shrone More

Placenames

Awnaskirtaun 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.