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
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
19 Apr 2024Conditional
planning permission to construct an easy feed slatted house with an underground slatted tank, feed barriers, feed passage, ancillary concrete, external agitation points, and all ancillary site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460232
12 Apr 2024Conditional
(A) construct a new dwelling (B) install a mechanical treatment system and raised sand polishing filter (C) construct a vehicular site entrance and (D) construct all associated site works at Carrahane Lower, Ardfert, Co. Kerry
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460211
25 Jul 2023Refused
(A) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING, (B) INSTALL A MECHANICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM AND RAISED SAND POLISHING FILTER, (C) CONSTRUCT A VEHICULAR SITE ENTRANCE, AND (D) CONSTRUCT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23845
25 Oct 2022Conditional
ERECT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, MECHANICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission consequent, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221106
30 Aug 2022Conditional
DECOMMISSION THE EXISING ON SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND INSTALL A MECHANICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SAND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22911
23 Dec 2021Refused
CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTIC DEVELOPMENT SERVED BY A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211518
22 Sept 2021Conditional
ERECT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Outline permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211082
26 Jul 2019Conditional
CHANGE THE DESIGN OF THE HOUSE WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION REF NO 12/685 ON 29/5/13 AND 12/9685 ON 6/2/18
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19801
21 Feb 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SLATTED CUBICLE HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANK
Permission · Kerry County Council, 19171
2 May 2018Conditional
CHANGE DESIGN OF HOUSE WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION REF NO. 11/9594
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18407
2 Oct 2017Conditional
RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17978
10 Aug 2017Refused
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVICED BY A WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT FOLLOWED BY A SANDCEL SAND FILTER AND A SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Outline permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17783
20 Jan 2017Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCT EXTENSION TO THE FRONT AND SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (B) ELEVATION CHANGES AND INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 1733
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Akeragh, Banna and Barrow Harbour SAC 000332
- Special Protection Area: Tralee Bay Complex SPA 004188
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Akeragh, Banna And Barrow Harbour 000332
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.