Canfee

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Canfee, from 175 m² to 401,930 m² (40.19 ha, 99.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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 Canfee 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 Canfee 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: Kenmare River SAC 002158
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lehid Harbour 001364

Recorded monuments

• KE108-046 Megalithic structure
  Description

  On the crest of a rocky ridge, overlooking Kenmare Bay. A large stone slab (4.3m x 1.35m; T 0.85m) resting on a smaller stone (1.3m x 0.85m; T 0.7m). The W end of the larger stone rests on the ground while the E end is raised (H 1.6m) above ground level. Immediately to the E of this arrangement is an upright stone (H 0.6m; 1.35m x 0.1m) and two small boulder-type stones (H 0.7m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE108-047 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  In rough pasture, on the crest of a rocky ridge, on a N-facing slope overlooking Kenmare Bay. A circular cairn (4.3m E-W; 4.2m N-S; H 1.1m) comprising stones of various shapes and sizes. Stones have been removed from the centre of the cairn, leaving a roughly circular depression (diam. c. 1m; D 0.6m) in which some slabs are visible. Stones are scattered downslope to the N and NE. The outer rim of the cairn is obscured by gorse bushes. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Canfee.

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 Canfee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Canfee

Area

788,365 m² (78.84 ha, 194.81 acres)

Civil parish

Tuosist, and its townlands

Barony

Glanarought

Electoral division

Ardea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardea electoral division: 193 people in 85 households; 85% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 31% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derryrush, Lehid, Tragalee

Placenames

Canfee 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.