Brandonwell

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brandonwell, from 460 m² to 430,840 m² (43.08 ha, 106.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• M2Town/Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 7 Jan 2021Conditional

  DEMOLISH A TWIN HAY SHED AND CONSTRUCT A LOOSE STRAW BEDDED CATTLE HOUSE WITH ROOFED FEED PASSAGE, EFFLUENT CHANNEL AND A STRAW BEDDED SHEEP HOUSE WITH FEED PASSAGE, EFFLUENT CHANNEL, CONCRETE WORKING APRON AND ALL RELEVANT SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 212

• 8 Feb 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SLATTED UNIT WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANKS AND ANCILLARY CONCRETE FARM YARD INCORPORATING CALVING PENS AND FODDER STORAGE

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 1796

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Brandonwell.

Recorded monuments

• KE020-053 Enclosure
  Description

  This circular enclosure is marked on the 1842 and 1897 OS maps. It also shows up very clearly on the Air Corps aerial photographs (VI63/98, 10.5.49). However, it has since been levelled. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1079. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE020-055 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Not marked on the 1842 OS map, it is marked on the 1897 OS map as 'Brandon's Well'. Situation and Description: This well lies in a slight hollow in a corner of a field E of a circular enclosure (KE020-056----). This well has been completely covered over and only a swamp area now exists. Rounds/Legends/Offerings: It is reputed to be a holy well dedicated to St Brendan. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 912. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE020-056 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated E of St Brendan's Well (912), this circular enclosure is marked on the 1842 and 1897 OS maps. It consists of a large circular area enclosed by a low, wide earthen bank. The width of the bank at the base is c 6m, and it rises to 1.2m above the surrounding land and 1m above the interior. The interior is at much the same level as the surrounding land, except to the N to E where it is higher. In the W sector of the interior is a mound, 10m x 12m and 1.4m high. The internal diameter is 51 m N-S and 54m E-W. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1078. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 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_59 (ZIP).

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

Name

Brandonwell

Area

1,841,317 m² (184.13 ha, 455 acres)

Civil parish

Ardfert, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Ardfert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardfert, Ardfert Oughter, Banna-Mountain, Carrahane Lower, Cloon Glebe, Collegefield, Commons North, Commons West, Killeacle, Killorane, Rahoneen, Rathcrihane, Skrillagh

Placenames

Brandonwell 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.