Carrig East
Townland in the civil parish of Templenoe, barony of Dunkerron South, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Charraig Thoir
- Area
- 411 ha
- 1,016 acres
- Land parcels
- 0
- registered freehold
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrig East. The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Carrig East 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
3 Dec 2025Conditional
(a) Retention permission to retain alterations made to the dwelling house including an additional window at the rear and revised external wall finishes to the front gable and rear wall, (b) Retention permission to retain the dwelling house, all associated site services and ancillary site works as located within revised site boundaries and, (c) Full planning permission to disconnect from the existing septic tank and install a new EN12566-3 wastewater treatment unit and associated polishing filter within the confines of the site and all other associated site works
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2561125
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: 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
- KE083-032 Enclosure
Description
In a boggy area, covered with marsh grass. This possible enclosure is not visible at ground level. It is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m) on the 1896 OS 6-inch map. (SMR file) 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 Carrig East.
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
- 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrig East.
- 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 Carrig East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Carrig East · An Charraig Thoir
- Area
- 4,109,658 m² (410.97 ha, 1,015.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templenoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkerron South
- Electoral division
- Reen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Reen electoral division: 172 people in 69 households; 82% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 31% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Carrig East 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.