Beennanaspuck

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beennanaspuck, from 586 m² to 977,237 m² (97.72 ha, 241.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Beennanaspuck 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.

• 13 Feb 2026N/a

  INCOMPLETE: RED III A 10-year permission for the development of a solar farm on a site of c. 349 hectares in the town lands of Kealid, Gortdromagownagh, Lissaniska (Newtownsandes), Beennanaspuck, Pilgrim hill, Shronebeirne, Lacka East, and Trien in Co. Kerry. This application relates to renewable energy development as defined by the European Union (Planning and Development) (Renewable Energy) Regulations 2025. The solar farm will consist of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; 37 no. hardstanding locations for electrical skids; new internal access tracks; underground power and communications cables and ducts, including along the L-10071 public road; horizontal road crossings for underground power and communications cables and ducts under the R523, L-1021, L-10071 and the L-6035; 15 no. solar farm site entrances as follows, 3 no. on the L-1021 public road (2 no. upgrades to existing agricultural field access and 1 no. upgrade to existing commercial inert waste sites), 2 no. on the L-1022 public road (upgrades to existing agricultural field/farmyard access), 3 no. on the L-6035 public road (1 no. upgrade to existing private road access, 2 no. upgrades to existing agricultural field access), 1 no. on the R-523 public road (upgrades to existing agricultural field access), 6 no. on the L-10071 public road (4 no. upgrades to existing agricultural field access and 2 no. new access); 5 no. passing bays to serve the l-10071 and 3 no. passing bays to serve the L-6035 public road; access gates; 5 no. temporary site compounds of c. 4,050 sq m each to be used for storage during construction activity; weather stations; security fencing; CCTV; felling of c. 1.5ha of forestry; internal culvert crossings; Installation of onsite transformer compound with associated electrical infrastructure in the town land of Beennanaspuck and a prefabricated containerised 110 kV GIS switching station in the town land of Shronebeirne to facilitate a future over-the fence connection to the adjacent Knockanure 220/110 kV substation located within the town land of Trien. The transformer compound will include an Independent Power Producer Building of c. 158.5 sq m, a 110 kV transformer, MV Switchgear, an 18 m high lightning monopole mast, boundary fence and associated ancillary development; landscaping and biodiversity enhancement measures; boundary fencing and all associated ancillary drainage development, site works and services. The solar farm will be operational for 40

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660103

• 16 Sept 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A CATTLE UNDERPASS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ON LOCAL ROAD R523

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 19960

• 21 Sept 2018Conditional

  (PLANNING PRMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS) CONSTRUCT AN UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLE INCLUDING ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE TOWNLANDS OF TOBERATOOREEN, KILBAHA NORTH, KILBAHA MIDDLE, KILNAHA SOUTH, GORTDROMAGOWNAGH AND BEENNANASPUCK IN CO. KERRY. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF THE LAYING OF 5.9 KM OF UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLES, ASSOCIATED DUCTING, ASSOCIATED CABLE DRAW PITS, ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, AND EXCAVATION/TRENCHING WORKS. THE UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLE ROUTE IS PRIMARILY ON PUBLIC ROADS WITH SECTIONS ON OTHER ROAD AND THROUGH PASTURELAND. DETAILS OF THE UNDERGROUND CABLES AND EXTENT OF THE WORKS ARE SHOWN ON THE PLANNING APPLICATION DRAWINGS. THE PROPOSED UNDERGROUNFD ELECTRICITY CABLE WILL CONNECT THE PERMITTED BEENNANASPUCK WIND FARM (KERRY COUNTY COUNCIL PLANNING REF. 14/571; AN BORD PLEANALA PLANNING REF PL08.245464) AND PERMITTED TOBERATOOREEN WIND FARM (KERRY COUNTY COUNCIL PLANNING REF. 12/431 AND 14/854; AN BORD PLEANALA PLANNING REF. PLC08.242170), WHICH ARE LOCATED IN COUNTY KERRY, THE NATIONAL ELECTRICITY GRID VIA THE ATHEA SUBSTATION IN COUNTY LIMERICK. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS).

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18923

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  FOR A 10 YEARS PLANNING PERMISSION, TO CONSTRUCT AN UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLE INCLUDING ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE. THE PROPOSED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLE WILL CONNECT THE PERMITTED BEENNANASPUCK WIND FARM (KERRY CO. COUNCIL PLANNING REF. NO. 14/571), (AN BORD PLEANALA PLANNNG REF. PL08.245464) AND PERMITTED TOBERATOOREEN WIND FARM (KERRY CO. COUNCIL PLANNING REF. NO. 12/431 AND 14/854), (AN BORD PLEANALA PLANNING REF. PL08.242170), WHICH ARE LOCATED IN CO. KERRY, TO THE NATIONAL ELECTRICITY GRID VIA THE ATHEA SUBSTATION IN CO. LIMERICK. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF THE LAYING OF 9.95 KM OF UNDERGROUND ELECTRICIAL CABLES, ASSOCIATED DUCTING, ASSOCIATED CABLE DRAW PITS, ELECTRICAL CABINETS, AND EXCAVATION / TRENCHING WORKS. THE UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLE ROUTE IS PRIMARILY ON PUBLIC ROAD WITH SECTIONS ON OTHER ROAD. DETAILS OF THE UNDERGROUND CABLES AND EXTENT OF THE WORKS ARE SHOWN ON THE PLANNING APPLICATION DRAWINGS. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR), AND ALSO THE PLANNING APPLICATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 171298

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Beennanaspuck.

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Beennanaspuck.

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

Name

Beennanaspuck · Binn an Easpaig

Area

2,347,445 m² (234.74 ha, 580.07 acres)

Civil parish

Knockanure, and its townlands

Barony

Iraghticonnor

Electoral division

Newtownsandes, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newtownsandes electoral division: 1,135 people in 451 households; 79% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Athea Upper (Co. Limerick), Gortdromagownagh, Knocknacaheragh, Lissaniska, Pilgrimhill

Placenames

Beennanaspuck 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.