Barraduff
Barraduff is a townland in the civil parish of Aghadoe, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Barr Dubh.
- Area
- 165.3 ha
- 409 acres
- Land parcels
- 80
- registered freehold, median 2,796 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- M2
- Town Centre
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barraduff, from 69 m² to 257,932 m² (25.79 ha, 63.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Industrial, Enterprise, Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
27 Nov 2025Conditional
(1) Demolish existing sacristy and toilets and (2) Construct extension comprising sacristy, toilets, offices, meeting, plant room and ancillary services, all in accordance with plans and particulars submitted
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561101
10 Nov 2025N/a
(1) Demolish existing sacristy and toilets and (2) Construct extension comprising sacristy, toilets, offices, meeting, plant room and ancillary services, all in accordance with plans and particulars submitted
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561040
19 Apr 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NIS HAS BEEN SUBMITTED WITH THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22410
2 Oct 2020N/a
(A) CONSTRUCT EXTENSION TO EXISTING 4 BEDROOM HOUSE (B) CONVERT EXISTING 4 BEDROOM HOUSE TO TWO IN NUMBER 2 BEDROOM APARTMENTS WITH ADDITIONAL CAR PARKING SPACES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 20914
18 Nov 2019N/a
(A) CONSTRUCT EXTENSION TO EXISTING 4 BEDROOM HOUSE, (B) CONVERT EXISTING 4 BEDROOM HOUSE TO TWO IN NUMBER 2 BEDROOM APARTMENTS, (C) CONSTRUCT A NEW BUILDING CONSISTING OF FIVE IN NUMBER 1 BEDROOM APARTMENTS AND (D) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN AND COMPLETE RETAINING WALL TO THE WEST OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 191168
16 Sept 2019N/a
(A) ERECT AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING 4 BEDROOM HOUSE (B) CONVERT EXISTING 4 BEDROOM HOUSE TO TWO IN NUMBER 2 BEDROOM APARTMENTS (C) CONSTRUCT A NEW BUILDING CONSISTING OF FIVE IN NUMBER 1 BEDROOM APARTMENTS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 19961
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Barraduff.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barraduff.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Barraduff, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Barraduff.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Barraduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Barraduff · Barr Dubh
- Area
- 1,653,264 m² (165.33 ha, 408.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghadoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Headfort, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,047 people lived in 353 households in the Headfort electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Kilquane, Knockanarroor, Lisbabe, Readrinagh, Shronedarragh
- Placenames
- Barraduff 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.