Carks

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carks, from 2,123 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 1,309,155 m² (130.92 ha, 323.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Carks 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 Carks 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carks.

Recorded monuments

• KE101-038 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on a NE-facing slope, commanding excellent views to the Dromoghty River valley and Lake and Kenmare Bay. B. Ó Ciobháin recorded the placename 'carn beag', or little cairn in this townland (SMR file). This cairn is not visible at ground level. 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

• KE101-048 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  In rough pasture, on the spine of a ridge on a hilltop commanding extensive views in all directions. An oval cairn (18.5m N-S; 12m E-W; H 4.5m) straddles an E-W outcropping rock and stones from it have tumbled downslope on both the N and S sides. Short sections of stone slabs, set contiguously on the N side, possibly outline the original extent of the cairn. Stones from the cairn have been used to construct two smaller modern cairns (H 1.8m) on top of the outcropping rock. 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

• KE101-093001 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on a N-facing slope, sheltered by a rocky scarp to the N. A circular area (5.2m E-W; 5m N-S) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.7m; H 0.5m) which protrudes above the surface of the bog. Loose stones are scattered around the enclosure externally. There is another enclosure (KE101-093002-) c. 20m to the W. 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

• KE101-093002 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on a N-facing slope, sheltered by a rocky scarp to the N. A circular area (diam. 5m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.7m; H 0.55m) which protrudes above the surface of the bog. A boulder is incorporated into the wall along the NW arc. There is another enclosure (KE101-093001-) c. 20m to the E. 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

• KE101-094 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a N-facing slope, overlooking the valley of the Reen River. A semicircular area (c. 12m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (Wth 2.9m; H 1.15m) of earth and stone SW-NE and by a linear stone field boundary at SE (L 20m). Traces of a low bank are evident on top of the scarp N-NE. Faint intermittent traces of the scarp continue on the SE side of the linear field boundary and indicate that the rath was originally circular. The remains of cultivation ridges are visible in the level interior. The field in which the rath is situated is known locally as the 'field of the fort'. 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

• KE101-095 Mass-house
  Description

  In rough pasture, in a sheltered hollow. The remains of a rectangular structure (13.7m E-W; 3.8m N-S) of drystone-built walls (T 1m; H 1.3m), covered by dense overgrowth. A pile of rubble at the E end may be the remains of a collapsed gable. The interior is divided into two compartments by a cross wall (T 0.9m): the larger room (8.8m E-W) is at the E end and has a door (Wth 0.8m) in the W end of its N wall; the smaller room (4m E-W) is at the W end. According to local information, this structure was used as a mass-house during 'Penal Times'. 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 Carks.

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 Carks.

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

Name

Carks · Na Cearca

Area

1,821,375 m² (182.14 ha, 450.07 acres)

Civil parish

Tuosist, and its townlands

Barony

Glanarought

Electoral division

Dawros, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dawros electoral division: 611 people in 226 households; 88% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cooryeen, Dawros, Derreenacallaha, Derreengarrinshagh, Dromroe, Feorus East

Placenames

Carks 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.