# Brandonwell, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ardfert, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,841,317 m² (184.13 ha, 455 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,768 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): M2 Town/Village Centre, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ardfert, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/ardfert.md - Barony: Clanmaurice - Electoral division: Ardfert, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,100 people lived in 424 households in the Ardfert electoral division. 60% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24309 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 70465 - Centre: latitude 52.327938, longitude -9.796202 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brandonwell, from 460 m² to 430,840 m² (43.08 ha, 106.46 acres); 35 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1178598: 430,840 m² (43.08 ha, 106.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1178598.md - Parcel 1244949: 381,274 m² (38.13 ha, 94.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1244949.md - Parcel 5094935: 214,724 m² (21.47 ha, 53.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5094935.md - Parcel 1205604: 184,852 m² (18.49 ha, 45.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1205604.md - Parcel 1205221: 146,463 m² (14.65 ha, 36.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1205221.md - Parcel 1244959: 142,788 m² (14.28 ha, 35.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1244959.md - Parcel 1244948: 80,756 m² (8.08 ha, 19.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1244948.md - Parcel 5094937: 71,680 m² (7.17 ha, 17.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5094937.md - Parcel 1147846: 56,007 m² (5.6 ha, 13.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1147846.md - Parcel 1151743: 31,243 m² (3.12 ha, 7.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1151743.md - Parcel 1243965: 28,238 m² (2.82 ha, 6.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1243965.md - Parcel 5094936: 15,123 m² (1.51 ha, 3.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5094936.md - Parcel 5028912: 10,105 m² (1.01 ha, 2.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5028912.md - Parcel 1235850: 6,984 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1235850.md - Parcel 1150120: 4,286 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1150120.md - Parcel 1240417: 4,014 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1240417.md - Parcel 1162555: 3,522 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1162555.md - Parcel 1247733: 2,742 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1247733.md - Parcel 1241982: 2,439 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1241982.md - Parcel 3009257: 2,392 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3009257.md - Parcel 1223300: 2,383 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1223300.md - Parcel 1164096: 2,237 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1164096.md - Parcel 1178595: 2,153 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1178595.md - Parcel 1226134: 2,057 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1226134.md - Parcel 1241316: 1,913 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1241316.md - Parcel 1228152: 1,751 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1228152.md - Parcel 1233066: 1,702 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1233066.md - Parcel 1239981: 1,366 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1239981.md - Parcel 1184449: 859 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1184449.md - Parcel 1206692: 826 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1206692.md - Parcel 1150125: 731 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1150125.md - Parcel 1242784: 460 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1242784.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - M2 Town/Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area): Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://cdp.kerrycoco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Variation-No1-Tralee-MD-Settlements-Plan.pdf ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 7 Jan 2021, Kerry County Council 212: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/212/0 - 8 Feb 2017, Kerry County Council 1796: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCT A SLATTED UNIT WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANKS AND ANCILLARY CONCRETE FARM YARD INCORPORATING CALVING PENS AND FODDER STORAGE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/1796/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Brandonwell. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE020-053: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-053----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-055----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE020-056----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brandonwell. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Brandonwell, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_59, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_59.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/brandonwell.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/brandonwell.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/brandonwell.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Brandonwell with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ardfert: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ardfert.md - Ardfert Oughter: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ardfert-oughter.md - Banna-Mountain: https://everytownland.com/kerry/banna-mountain.md - Carrahane Lower: https://everytownland.com/kerry/carrahane-lower.md - Cloon Glebe: https://everytownland.com/kerry/cloon-glebe.md - Collegefield: https://everytownland.com/kerry/collegefield.md - Commons North: https://everytownland.com/kerry/commons-north-70759.md - Commons West: https://everytownland.com/kerry/commons-west.md - Killeacle: https://everytownland.com/kerry/killeacle.md - Killorane: https://everytownland.com/kerry/killorane.md - Rahoneen: https://everytownland.com/kerry/rahoneen.md - Rathcrihane: https://everytownland.com/kerry/rathcrihane.md - Skrillagh: https://everytownland.com/kerry/skrillagh.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/brandonwell - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/brandonwell