Canearagh

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Canearagh, from 806 m² to 2,523,877 m² (252.39 ha, 623.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Canearagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Canearagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE071-049 Enclosure
  Description

  The remains of this small, subcircular enclosure, not marked on the OS maps, are located in rough grazing land on the high W slopes of Beenreagh mountain. The site affords a far-reaching view to N over Coomaglaslaw and Coomasaharn lakes and along the Behy river valley. The enclosure measures 10.9m x 9.1m internally, and is defined by a wall of boulders and small stones. This wall survives to .5m in height and is .7m in width. A short distance to SW a semicircular outline of boulders is all that remains of a possible second enclosure (KE071-049001-). It has an internal diameter of 22m, and its wall averages .65m wide. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 716. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE071-049001 Enclosure
  Description

  A short distance to SW a semicircular outline of boulders is all that remains of a possible second enclosure (KE071-049001-). It has an internal diameter of 22m, and its wall averages .65m wide. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 716. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE071-096 Rock art
  Description

  This monument was initially identified as rock art by Aoibheann Lambe in 2016. In pasture field (186m OD), with abundant rock outcrop and boulders, on a gentle NW-facing slope; Best views SW->NW toward Teeromoyle Mountain and Drung Hill. A partial cup-and-two-ring motif (overall dims. 12cm x 9cm; ring Wth 1cm; D 3cm; cup diam. 1.5cm; D 2mm) which is complete S->W->NNE, is located on W side of decorated surface. A cup-and-two-ring motif (overall dims. 26cm; ring Wth 1.5cm; D 2-3cm; cup diam. 5cm; D 10mm) is c. 56cm to NE; obscured across N arc by stone wall field boundary; A natural fracture (long-axis E-W) extends from cupmark at E. Thirteen cupmarks (range diam. 1.5-3cm; D 4-5mm) to centre and S of decorated surface. Various pickmarks across S and E areas of decorated surface. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 5 July 2017

• KE071-191 Rock art
  Description

  On largely level ground in boulder strewn boggy pasture, this prominent sandstone boulder (c. 130m OD), is inscribed on the S end of its SE facing surface with a picked line, a cross-in-circle, an irregularly shaped picked ring with internal picking and a cluster of picking. The boulder, having a largely even surface defined by a network of N/S and E/W running cracks, is up to 1.1m high and pentagonal in plan, with sides of 2 –4m long, the longest side at E being 4m in length. The sides at W and E slope upwards towards each other creating a central ridge which is overlain by turf. The S and E sides are also partly overlain by turf, the rock surface immediately N of the motifs bleached where it has recently been deturfed. The cross-in-circle motif consists of a ring (diam. 0.16m, L 0.45m, wth 0.01m, D 2mm) which is irregularly shaped, coming to a point at WSW and having a line (L 0.05m) extending from its E end towards SE. The ring encloses a cross, which is slightly off-centre to SE. The cross is composed of two intersecting lines (wth 0.01m, D 2mm), the line running NE/SW (L 0.14m ) intersected 0.05m from the base of the ring at NE by the line running NW/SE (L 0.15m). 0.09m above the cross-in-circle, a picked line (L 0.32m, wth 0.01m, D 2mm) runs N/S. A second ringed motif, 0.11m downslope to NE from the cross-in-circle, is composed of a loosely picked oval ring (diam NW/SE 0.2m, NE/SW 0.14m, wth 0.01–0.02m, D 0.03m) bisected by an irregular line of picking (NW/SE 0.20m, wth 0.01–0.02m, D 0.03m) with an area of picking extending from midway along this line upwards to the ring. 0.20m W of this motif, an area of small pickmarks, c. .10 of which form a cluster (diam. c. 0.04m). Hollows between the two ringed motifs and to S are irregularly shaped and appear natural. Extensive views in all directions, the decorated surface sloping upwards to NW, there are views SW towards Coomsaharn and views NW beyond Droum Hill to the Dingle Peninsula. Depressions on the surface of a on a low-lying rock to SW, which include three straight grooves (L 0.10–0.20m) running roughly N/S, do not appear to be rock art. Identified as rock art by Aoibheann Lambe (2018). Compiled by Aoibheann Lambe Date of upload: 30 May 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Canearagh.

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.

No address of the register names Canearagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Canearagh

Area

3,844,537 m² (384.45 ha, 950.01 acres)

Civil parish

Glanbehy, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Glanbehy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glanbehy electoral division: 1,269 people in 465 households; 76% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 39% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakilly, Ballynakilly Lower, Ballynakilly Upper, Coomasaharn, Creeveen, Neesha, Tooreenealagh

Placenames

Canearagh 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.