Caherfealane
Townland in the civil parish of Kilgarrylander, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry; in Irish Cathair Faoláin
- Area
- 416.3 ha
- 1,029 acres
- Land parcels
- 119
- registered freehold, median 3,324 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
119 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherfealane, from 20 m² to 2,949,328 m² (294.93 ha, 728.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Caherfealane 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
31 May 2026N/a
Planning Permission to Construct a new dwelling house with all associated site services
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660480
17 Dec 2025Conditional
Retention Permission to retain house as constructed and to retain within revised site boundaries, house served by mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter and agricultural buildings (horse stables and machinery/feed store), seepage tank and all associated site works
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2561182
10 Jun 2025Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH GARAGE, (B) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission · Kerry County Council, 25155
29 Jun 2023Conditional
(A)CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH GARAGE (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23745
23 Sept 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, EFFLEUNT TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221006
26 May 2022Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH GARAGE (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22552
3 Jun 2020Conditional
RETAIN THE STABLES AS CONSTRUCTED TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Retention · Kerry County Council, 20472
22 Dec 2017Conditional
CONSTUCT A STOREY AND HALF TYPE DWELLING WITH SINGLE STOREY WING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, AN AERATION UNIT AND RAISED BED SOIL POLISHING FITLER, NEW ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 171307
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: Slieve Mish Mountains SAC 002185
Recorded monuments
- KE046-005 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Caherfealane.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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 Caherfealane.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Caherfealane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Caherfealane · Cathair Faoláin
- Area
- 4,163,049 m² (416.3 ha, 1,028.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgarrylander, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Kilgarrylander, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilgarrylander electoral division: 694 people in 260 households; 90% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corkaboy, Curraheen, Derrymore East, Gortaneden, Keel, Shanahill, Shanahill East, Tober
- Placenames
- Caherfealane 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.