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Carrahane Lower

Townland in the civil parish of Ardfert, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish Carrachán Íochtarach

Area
274.2 ha
678 acres
Land parcels
129
registered freehold, median 1,882 m²
Zoning
not in a zoned settlement
Planning
13
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

151 parcels, click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

129 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrahane Lower, from 19 m² to 535,847 m² (53.58 ha, 132.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

Zoning

Development plans, national zoning

No zone of a development plan covers Carrahane Lower 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.

Planning applications

Sites that touch the townland, newest first

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

Nature and heritage

Designated sites and recorded monuments

Designated sites

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrahane Lower.

Architectural heritage

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

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).

Ground and risks

Radon, landslides, flooding

Radon
The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Carrahane Lower.
Landslides
Susceptibility 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_51 (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.

Homes sold

Property Price Register

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

The townland

Name
Carrahane Lower · Carrachán Íochtarach
Area
2,742,117 m² (274.21 ha, 677.59 acres)
Civil parish
Ardfert, and its townlands
Barony
Clanmaurice
Electoral division
Banna, the unit of the census
Census 2022
Banna electoral division: 793 people in 289 households; 83% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Banna-Mountain, Brandonwell, Carrahane Upper, Rahoneen
Placenames
Carrahane Lower 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.