Castlequarter

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlequarter, from 693 m² to 264,058 m² (26.41 ha, 65.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Castlequarter 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.

• 11 Aug 2021Conditional

  ERECT A TWO STOREY AND SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE AND DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21917

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077

Recorded monuments

• KE002-001001 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
  Description

  Beal Castle was another Fitzmaurice stronghold from the 13th century until 1783, when it passed to Richard Hare. In Pacata Hibernia (1633) it is called Beaulieu, and according to Richard Cox (1687) it derived its name from 'Beal-a-bo’. O'Donovan (1841) feels that this is incorrect and that it is 'béal meaning mouth or bay. This castle commanded an excellent view of the Shannon and the tide comes within 70m of it. According to Westropp (1909, 11) 'the tower had two floors under a vault, then another vaulted storey and a roofed upper room'. Today the remains of the castle have fallen and all that can be seen are its foundations. It appears as a rectangular enclosure that is enclosed to the N, S and W by a fieldbank. The enclosure measures 68m N-S and 62m E-W. To the N the bank measures 1.3m high externally, 1.6m high internally and is 3.8m wide at the base. To the S it measures .6m high externally, 1.8m high internally and 3.4m wide at the base. This enclosure would appear to have been surrounded by a fosse and an outer bank, but this is only visible at the NE and SE angle. Thomas Fitzmaurice, 18th Lord of Kerry, realising during the wars of the 1600s that he was facing defeat at the hands of the English forces, decided to make his peace with Carew, but his surrender was not accepted and he became a lifelong enemy of the English Crown. Beal Castle was the scene of the murder of Maurice Stack (a close associate of Carew) in August 1600. According to Pacata Hibernia (1633) Honora O'Brien, wife of Thomas Fitzmaurice, was the principal agent in the conspiracy which lured Stack to his doom; whereas the Annals of the Four Masters gives the impression that she was a pawn used and manipulated by her husband. In 1581, the fortifications were destroyed by Lord Kerry himself to prevent their being used by the English forces. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 990. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE002-001002 Earthwork
  Description

  Depicted on the 25-inch OS map (1892) as a large rectangular enclosure (82m N-S; 67m E-W) with a break (Wth 45m) in bank along E side. According to Quinlan (1943), 'the castle [Beal castle] must have been a very expansive building on the ground, surrounding the ruins are still enclosed by a rampart of great strength. It must have been 160ft in diameter at the time of occupation'. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 04 October 2013

• KE002-002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  This site is marked on the 1841-42 OS map as 'Kyle burial ground' but does not appear on the later 1914 OS map. Today, this burial ground has been completely levelled and no surface trace remains. Two fields N of this site lies the coastline and the River Shannon. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 842. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Castlequarter.

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

Name

Castlequarter · Ceathrú an Chaisleáin

Area

864,597 m² (86.46 ha, 213.65 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconly, and its townlands

Barony

Iraghticonnor

Electoral division

Beal, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Beal electoral division: 150 people in 58 households; 91% of households own their home; 18% of homes were built since 2001; 29% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Acres, Beal East, Corcas and Sandhills, Kylatallin

Placenames

Castlequarter 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.