Cahercullenagh Upper
Cahercullenagh Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Ballymacelligott, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Cathair Chuileannach Uachtarach.
- Area
- 210.2 ha
- 519 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 11,289 m² (1.13 ha, 2.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahercullenagh Upper, from 97 m² to 662,138 m² (66.21 ha, 163.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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
No zone of a development plan covers Cahercullenagh Upper 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 Dec 2025Conditional
Planning Permission to a) construct a new dwelling, b) install a mechanical treatment unit with gravity soil polishing filter, c) construct a vehicular site entrance and d) construct all associated site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561173
19 Apr 2018Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH EXISTING DERELICT HOUSE (B) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, TREATMENT UNIT AND GRAVITY POLISHING FILTER AND ALL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18360
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 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 Cahercullenagh Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cahercullenagh Upper.
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 Cahercullenagh Upper, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cahercullenagh Upper.
- 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 Cahercullenagh Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Cahercullenagh Upper · Cathair Chuileannach Uachtarach
- Area
- 2,101,933 m² (210.19 ha, 519.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymacelligott, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Nohaval, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 391 people lived in 141 households in the Nohaval electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cahercullenagh Lower, Cloghavoola, Keam, Muingnaminnane, Muingnatee, Rathmore
- Placenames
- Cahercullenagh Upper 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.