Caherleheen

142 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherleheen, from 8 m² to 156,718 m² (15.67 ha, 38.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Caherleheen 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.

• 1 Aug 2025Conditional

  Retention Permission to (a) retain the demolition works that have taken place to a dwelling house and (b) Retention permission to retain the construction of a replacement dwelling

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560671

• 11 Jul 2025Conditional

  Planning Permission to (1) demolish existing two storey derelict dwelling, outbuildings & domestic garage (2) replace same with a storey and a half style dwelling (3) to install a septic tank and secondary treatment “puraflow” peat filter over a soil polishing filter and (4) all ancillary siteworks

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560601

• 12 Mar 2025N/a

  retain elevational changes to their dwelling

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560171

• 7 Jul 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SERIES OF EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21759

• 25 Jun 2021Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING TWO STOREY DERELICT DWELLING, OUTBUILDING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PERMISSION TO REPLACE SAME WITH A TRADITIONAL TWO STOREY TYPE DWELLING HOUSE C/W NEW SEPTIC TANK AND SECONDARY TREATEMENT "PURAFLO" PEAT FILTERS OVER A SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21702

• 22 Jan 2021Conditional

  ALTER, REFURBISH AND EXTEND THEIR DWELLING HOUSE COMPLETE WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, DECOMMISSIONING EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND FOR A NEW MECHANICAL WASTE TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2146

• 22 Nov 2019Conditional

  RETAIN (A) FRONT PORCH EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (B) REAR UTILITY EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (C) TO RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES, ALL AS CONSTRUCTED LOCATED

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191192

• 21 Oct 2019N/a

  RETAIN (A) FRONT PORCH EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (B) REAR UTILITY EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (C) TO RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES, ALL AS CONSTRUCTED LOCATED

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 191083

• 24 Jul 2019Conditional

  RETAIN THE EXISTING SHED ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19789

• 24 Apr 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALL IRL 10 TRICEL NOVO WASTEWATER TREATMENT PUMPED UNIT AND SANDCEL TERTIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND (B) PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH EXISTING SHED

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19419

• 12 Feb 2018Conditional

  RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 18105

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Mish Mountains SAC 002185

Recorded monuments

• KE038-099 Hut site
  Description

  'The remains of a circular, though much collapsed and denuded stone hut site is located in the boggy valley to the north Knockawaddra Mountain, in an area of peatland which is being cut for turf. Total dimensions of this site are10.0m N-S by 8.00m E-W, the average width of the enclosing walls being 0.80m in width. The wall has an average external height of 0.25m, the height internally being 0.20m. Evidence of stone coursing still remains at the north west side, where two courses of stone built in the dry-stone fashion are visible. The site is now much overgrown, and seems to have suffered considerably from the robbing of stone to construct a nearby modern rectangular turf-drying platform, which abuts this hutsite at north.' Compiled by Michael Connolly for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as part of a survey of the Lee Valley area in 1996-97. Date of upload: 03 May 2012

• KE038-120 Burnt mound
  Description

  'This site was initially identified as a probable fulacht fiadh on black and white aerial photography in September 2004. The site was clearly visible in an extensive tract of wet, marshy land. The site consists of a sub0circular raised dry area in an area of marsh the mound is 0.6m high and measures 28m by 18m. It is cut from north to south by a water-filled ditch and field boundary. No definitive trough area is visible.' Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008 Date of upload: 22 June 2012

• KE038-121 Burnt spread
  Description

  'This site was not indicated on available maps or on aerial photography and was noted while passing an area that had recently been stripped as part of the ground works relating to the construction of a new dwelling house. Remains of the spread on the ground surface were minimal though the remaining material suggested the spread was circular with a diameter of 4m. The mounded soil from this part of the site also contained charcoal rich soil and some fire shattered stone.' Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008 Date of upload: 22 June 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_129 (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.

• Caherleheen, Tralee5 sales

Name

Caherleheen · Cathair Léithín

Area

3,599,558 m² (359.96 ha, 889.47 acres)

Civil parish

Ratass, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Ballyseedy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyseedy electoral division: 1,968 people in 638 households; 71% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygamboon Upper, Ballyseedy, Camp, Clahane, Poulawaddra, Skahanagh

Placenames

Caherleheen 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.