# Cahernane, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killarney, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,087,157 m² (108.72 ha, 268.64 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,582 m² (2.16 ha, 5.33 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G5 Mixed/general 'green' /recreation/conservation, other, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 10 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killarney, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/killarney.md
- Barony: Magunihy
- Electoral division: Killarney Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Killarney Rural electoral division: 7,735 people in 2,446 households; 71% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23492
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 70529
- Centre: latitude 52.041724, longitude -9.508381 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahernane, from 16,554 m² (1.66 ha, 4.09 acres) to 26,610 m² (2.66 ha, 6.58 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 5320038: 26,610 m² (2.66 ha, 6.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5320038.md
- Parcel 1225716: 16,554 m² (1.66 ha, 4.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1225716.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

- G5 Mixed/general 'green' /recreation/conservation, other (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other): Kerry County Development Plan 2022-2028, Kerry; 4 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: http://docstore.kerrycoco.ie/KCCWebsite/planning/devplan/vol2new.pdf

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

10 applications, newest first.

- 3 Mar 2026, Kerry County Council 2660179: N/a. Permission. 1) The demolition of the existing single storey staff changing cottage building to the north west of the main hotel and the removal of the adjoining stone garden wall for later reuse. 2) The change of use of the existing single storey outbuilding (Cottage 1) to hotel use and for its refurbishment and conversion into 2 no. hotel bedrooms including the addition of 2 no window openings to the north east elevation, 2 no window openings to the north west elevation and 3 no new window openings to the south east elevation. 3) 2 No. proposed new 2 storey cottage buildings (Cottages 2&3) located to the north east gable of existing single storey outbuilding to provide 8 no. new hotel bedrooms. 4) A proposed new single storey cottage building (Cottage 4) to provide 2 no new hotel bedrooms located adjacent to the existing single storey outbuilding (Cottage 1). 5) The demolition and reconstruction of the existing stone garden wall adjacent to the entrance driveway. 6) Proposed new landscaped garden courtyard spaces including associated ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660179/0
- 23 Aug 2024, Kerry County Council 2460602: Conditional. Permission. Proposed External Gable Cladding to Existing 8 Bedroom "Coach House" to South West Elevation (Protected Structure – RPS Ref RPS-KY-0486 & NIAH Ref 21306608).. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460602/0
- 14 Aug 2024, Kerry County Council 2460549: N/a. Permission. Invalid- Proposed External Gable Cladding to Existing 8 Bedroom "Coach House" to South West Elevation (Protected Structure).. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460549/0
- 2 Nov 2023, Kerry County Council 2360277: Conditional. Retention. Retention Permission to retain select hotel signage as erected and Planning Permission to erect 2no. outdoor digital signage units all at the Gleneagle Hotel, Muckross Rd, Poulnamuck (townland), Killarney, Co. Kerry.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360277/0
- 22 Aug 2022, Kerry County Council 22876: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. MODIFY PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION (REG REF 19/965) FOR THE RELOCATION OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED SINGLE STOREY HOTEL BEDROOM COTTAGE 4 FROM THE FRONT TO THE REAR OF THE SITE INCLUDING MINOR ELEVATIONAL MODIFICATIONS AND ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/22876/0
- 27 Jan 2021, Kerry County Council 2156: Conditional. Retention. 1) THE RETENTION OF 28 CAR PARKING SPACES AND 1 BUS PARKING SPACE TO THE NORTH WEST OF THE EXISTING HOTEL, ADJACENT TO THE EXISTING SERVICE YARD, 2) THE RETENTION OF 26 NO CAR PARKING SPACES INCLUDING EXISTING ACCESS ROAD ADJACENT TO THE HOTEL GARDEN WING, 3) THE EXTENSION OF THE EXISTING CAR PARK ADJACENT TO THE HOTEL GARDEN WING TO PROVIDE 14 ADDITIONAL CAR SPACES INCLUDING NEW ACCESSS ROAD AND ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AT THE CAHERNANE HOUSE HOTEL (PROTECTED STRUCTURE). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2156/0
- 17 Sept 2019, Kerry County Council 19965: Conditional. Permission. (1) THE DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING SINGLE STOREY STAFF CHANGING COTTAGE BUILDING TO THE NORTH WEST OF THE MAIN HOTEL AND THE REMOVAL OF THE ADJOINING STONE GARDEN WALL FOR LATER REUSE (2) THE CHANGE OF USE OF THE EXISTING SINGLE STOREY OUTBUILDING TO HOTEL USE FOR ITS REFURBISHMENT AND CONVERSION INTO 2 NO. HOTEL BEDROOMS INCLUDING THE ADDITION OF 2 NO. WINDOW OPENINGS TO THE NORTH EAST ELEVATION, 2 NO. WINDOW OPENINGS TO NORTH WEST ELEVATION AND 3 NO. WINDOW OPENINGS TO THE SOUTH EAST ELEVATION (3) 2 NO. PROPOSED NEW 2 STOREY COTTAGE BUILDINGS LOCATED TO NORTH EAST GABLE OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY OUTBUILDING TO PROVIDE 8 NO. NEW HOTEL BEDROOMS (4) PROPOSED NEW SINGLE STOREY COTTAGE BUILDING TO PROVIDE 2 NO. HOTEL BEDROOMS LOCATED ADJACENT TO THE MAIN HOTEL ENTRANCE AND EXISTING VEHICULAR DRIVEWAY (5) DEMOLITION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF EXISTING STONE GARDEN WALL ADJACENT TO THE ENTRANCE DEIVEWAY (6) REPLACEMENT AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING FOUL WATER HOLDING TANK (7) PROPOSED NEW LANDSCAPED GARDEN COURTYARD SPACES INCLUDING ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AT CAHERNANE HOUST HOTEL (PROTECTED STRUCTURE ). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/19965/0
- 26 Aug 2019, Kerry County Council 19901: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. RETAIN OF THE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED REFURBISHED 2 STOREY COACH HOUSE BUILDING INCLUDING 8 NO. BEDROOMS, 8 NO. GUEST CAR PARKING SPACES, LANDSCAPED COURTYARD INCLUDING ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS (REG. REF. NO. 17/1285) AT THE CAHERNANE HOUSE HOTEL (PROTECTED STRUCTURE). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/19901/0
- 9 May 2019, Kerry County Council 19489: Conditional. Retention. RETAIN A 18M2 BICYCLE STORE & 32M2 PLANT ROOM CONSTRUCTED OVER PREVIOUSLY APPROVED SINGLE STOREY ENCLOSED SERVICE YARD (17/1285). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/19489/0
- 20 Dec 2017, Kerry County Council 171285: Conditional. Permission. (1)DEMOLITION EXISTING SINGLE STOREY STORAGE BUILDING & THE REMOVAL OF THE EXISTING GALVANISED EXTERIOR FIRE ESCAPE STAIRS ON THE NORTH WEST ELEVATION OF THE MAIN HOUSE IN EXISTING SERVICE YARD,(2)DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING SINGLE STOREY STAFF CHANGING COTTAGE & THE REMOVAL OF THE ADJOINING STONE GARDEN WALL FOR REUSE,(3)THE REMOVAL OF THE INTERNAL BACK OF HOUSE SERVICE STAIRS WITHIN THE NORTH WEST ELEVATION OF THE MAIN HOUSE & TO FILL IN THE FLOOR PENETRATIONS IN ORDER TO CREATE NEW ACCESS CORRIDORS INTO PROPOSED NEW BEDROOM LINK,(4)MINOR INTERNAL INTERIOR MODIFICATIONS TO MAIN HOUSE BASEMENT AREA INCLUDING BAR RECONFIGURATION,MALE & FEMALE TOILETS RENOVATION & THE CONVERSION OF EXISTING SNOOKER ROOM TO STAFF CHANGING ROOMS,(5)CONSTRUCT A NEW 3 STOREY OVER BASEMENT BEDROOM WING,CONSISTING OF A NEW KITCHEN AREA, STORAGE ROOMS,DELIVERIES AREA,PUBLIC SPACE & CIRCULATION SPACES AT BASEMENT LEVEL & 14 NEW BEDROOMS & ASSOCIATED CIRCULATION SPACES CONNECTED BACK TO THE MAIN HOUSE BY WAY OF A GLAZED LINK AT BASEMENT, GROUND,1ST & 2ND FLOOR LEVELS RESPECTIVELY,(6)CONSTRUCT A NEW GLAZED DOUBLE HEIGHT ENCLOSED INTERNAL COURTYARD MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SPACE CONNECTED TO THE MAIN HOUSE VIA GLAZED LINK ON THE NORTH WEST ELEVATION & TO THE EXISTING SINGLE STOREY COTTAGE ON ITS NORTH EAST ELEVATION & THE PROPOSED NEW BEDROOM WING AT THE SOUTH EAST & SOUTH WEST ELEVATIONS RESPECTIVELY,(7)RENOVATION OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY COTTAGE IN EXISTING SERVICE YARD FOR USE AS COFFEE SHOP AREA INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF 4 NEW WINDOWS TO THE SOUTH WEST ELEVATION,(8) REFURBISHMENT OF THE EXISTING 2 STOREY DERELICT "OUTBUILDING 2" TO PROVIDE 8 NEW HOTEL BEDROOMS INCL. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DOUBLE HEIGHT BAY WINDOW EXTENSION TO SOUTH WEST GABLE,AN EXTERNAL DOUBLE HEIGHT GLAZED ENCLOSURE OF THE EXISTING EXTERIOR STONE STAIRS ON THE SOUTH EAST GABLE ELEVATION INCL. MINOR INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS,(9)A PROPOSED NEW ENCLOSED SERVICE YARD INCL. A REFUSE STORAGE AREA,GAS STORAGE TANK & BACKUP GENERATOR,(10)A PROPOSED NEW EXTERNAL TERRACE AREA TO SOUTH WEST OF THE PROPOSED BEDROOM WING ENCLOSED BY 2.4M HIGH RANDOM STONE RETAINING WALLS,(11)A NEW PART GLAZED,PART NATURAL SLATE ROOF OVER "OUTBUILDING 1" FOR USE AS A GREEN HOUSE & POTTING SHED, INCL. A NEW DOUBLE DOORS TO SOUTH EAST ELEVATION,(12)THE PROVISION OF 62 NEW CAR PARKING SPACES INCL. 12 NO. STAFF CAR PARKING SPACES, (SEE NEWSPAPER ADVERTISED FOR MORE DETAILS). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/171285/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC, site code 000365, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000365
- Special Protection Area: Killarney National Park SPA, site code 004038, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004038
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment, site code 000365

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- KE066-073: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE066-073----. In pasture, on the E bank of the Flesk River. The N arc (C c. 10m) of a possible circular enclosure is clearly visible as a shadow site in an aerial photograph (ACAP, V 245/143-144) taken in 1956, with the faint trace of a possible circular feature at its centre. This possible enclosure is not visible at ground level. A smaller enclosure (KE066-073001-) is immediately to the SW. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011
- KE066-073001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE066-073001-. In pasture, on the E bank of the Flesk River. A small circular enclosure (diam. c. 5m) is visible in an aerial photograph (ACAP, V 245/143-144) taken in 1956. This enclosure is not visible at ground level. A larger possible circular enclosure (KE066-073----) is immediately to the NE. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011
- KE066-134: Architectural fragment, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE066-134----. On the E side of the road leading S from Killarney, 300m SE of Flesk Bridge. A square building (5m x 5m; H c. 8m; walls 0.6m thick) with an attached circular tower, containing a spiral stone stairs (int. diam. c. 1.35m), midway along its N side (see plans in Bary 1996, 32). It has a cruciform slate roof with each wall rising to a gable, and contains two floors with an attic; the building was partially restored in the mid-1990s. The ground floor window on the W wall incorporates a limestone sill from a mullioned window, and two chamfered jambs. These are of late 16th/early 17th-century date. Some of the quoin stones have similar tooling marks and are probably of the same date. However, the building itself appears to be a late-18th/early-19th century ornamental tower, but incorporating these earlier fragments whose origin is unknown. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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)

- Cahernane House, country house, 1875–1880, Regional interest, registry number 21306608, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KE&regno=21306608. Detached seven-bay two-storey over part-raised basement Ruskinesque Gothic Revival style country house with dormer attic, dated 1877, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house. Designed by J.F. Fuller. Comprising five-bay two-storey main block with single-bay two-storey gabled projecting entrance bay having trefoil-headed door opening approached by flight of steps, and two-bay two-storey gabled projecting end bay to left. Three-bay side elevations and five-bay rear elevation to south-west elevation having pair of single-bay two-storey gabled advanced bays. Renovated and extended to south-east in late twentieth century, comprising five-bay two-storey wing with gablets over window openings to accommodate use as hotel. Steeply pitched and hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks with ashlar dressings, gable parapets with decorative iron finials and hipped dormers. Rendered walls with ashlar plinth band, carved springers with wyverns, string course to facade with carved bosses and moulded ashlar eaves band. Tooled ashlar sills and transoms to timber one-over-one pane sliding sash windows with meeting rails concealed by transom. Ashlar doorcase with moulded reveal and hood moulding, carved date-plaque, leaded glass overpanel and double-leaf glazed and panelled door. Retaining interior features. Detached nine-bay two-storey rubble stone-built stable block, built c. 1880, to west on an L-shaped plan comprising three-bay two-storey range with series of segmental-headed integral carriage arches and six-bay single-storey wing with half-dormer attic at right angle to south-east; now in use as hotel. Detached seven-bay single-storey rubble stone-built outbuilding, built c. 1880, to south with square-headed open internal porch to right. Detached single-bay single-storey gable-fronted rubble stone-built outbuilding, built c. 1880, to south, now partly derelict.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 10 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: Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_210, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_210.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/cahernane.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/cahernane.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/cahernane.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Cahernane 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)

- Bunrower: https://everytownland.com/kerry/bunrower.md
- Castlelough: https://everytownland.com/kerry/castlelough.md
- Poulnamuck: https://everytownland.com/kerry/poulnamuck.md
- Scrahane: https://everytownland.com/kerry/scrahane.md
- Woodlawn: https://everytownland.com/kerry/woodlawn.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.

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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.

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