Clogher
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltomy, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Cloichear
- Area
- 119.8 ha
- 296 acres
- Land parcels
- 84
- registered freehold, median 1,259 m²
- Zoning
- M4
- Built up area
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
84 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clogher, from 28 m² to 271,088 m² (27.11 ha, 66.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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
- M4Built up area
Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - O1Strategic Reserve, White Land (Strategic reserve, White land)
Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4Strategic Residential Reserve
Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space, Park (Open space, park)
Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Oct 2025Conditional
Retention Permission to a) Retain the existing altar shelter as constructed
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560998
26 Apr 2024Conditional
Permission to install a home-office portacabin with bus parking area and all associated site-works.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460261
14 Dec 2021Refused
SEEKING A TEN - YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION AND 35 YEAR OPERATIONAL LIFE FROM THE DATE OF COMMISSION OF THE WIND FARM CONSTRUCTION OF 7 NO. WIND TURBINES WITH THE FOLLOWING MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM PARAMETERS OVERALL GROUND TO BLADE TIP HEIGHT IN THE RANGE OF 170M MAXIMUM TO 169.5M MINIMUM, HUB HEIGHT OF 95M, ROTOR DIAMETER IN THE RANGE OF 150M MAXIMUM TO 149M MINIMUM, TURBINE HARDSTAND AREAS, PROVISION OF 1 NO. PERMANENT METEORLOGICAL MAST WITH A HEIGHT OF 110 METRES, UPGRADE OF EXISTING ROADS AND ACCESS JUNCTIONS, PROVISION OF NEW SITE ENTRANCES, ROADS AND HARDSTAND AREAS, 2 NO. TEMPORARY PEAT STORAGE AREAS, 2 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUNDS, 1 NO. BORROW PIT, ALL SITE DRAINAGE WORKS, 1 NO. ONSITE 38KV SUBSTATION, CONTROL BUILDING AND PLANT, ASSOCIATED SECURITY FENCING AND WASTE WATER HOLDING TANK, ALL ASSOCIATED UNDERGOROUND ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATION CABLING CONNECTING THE TURBINES TO THE PROPOSED ON - SITE SUBSTATION, CONNECTION OF THE PROPOSED 38KV ON - SITE SUBSTATION VIA UNDERGROUND CABLE IN THE PUBLIC ROAD TO THE ENTRANCE OF THE EXISTING CLAHANE 110KV SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLNAD OF PALLAS, ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS, APPARATUS AND SIGNAGE. THE APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT (NIS) AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR)
Permission · Kerry County Council, 211441
24 Nov 2021N/a
CONSTRUCT 7 NO. WIND TURBINES WITH THE FOLLOWING MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM PARAMETERS: OVERALL GROUND TO BLADE TIP HEIGHT IN THE RANGE OF 170M MAXIMUM TO 169.5M MINIMUM O HUB HEIGHT OF 95M O ROTOR DIAMETER IN THE RANGE OF 150 MAXIMUM TO 149M MINIMUM. TURBINE HARDSTAD AREAS. PROVISION OF 1 NO. PERMANENT METEOROLOGICAL MAST WITH A HEIGHT OF 110 METRES. UPGRADE OF EXISTING ROADS AND ACCESS JUNCTIONS. PROVISION OF NEW SITE ENTRANCES, ROADS AND HARDSTAND AREAS. 2 NO. TEMPORARY PEAT STORAGE AREAS. 2 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUNDS. 1 NO. BORROW PIT. ALL SITE DRAINAGE WORKS. 1 NO ONSITE 38 KV SUBSTATION, CONTROL BUILDING AND PLANT, ASSOCIATED SECURITY FENCING AND WASTEWATER HOLDING TANK. ALL ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATION CABLING CONNECTING THE TURBINES TO THE PROPOSED ON-SITE SUBSTATION. CONNECTION OF THE PROPOSED 38 KV ON-STIE SUBSTATION VIA UNDERGROUND CABLE IN THE PUBLIC ROAD TO THE ENTRANCE OF THE EXISTING CLAHANE 110 KV SUBSTATION IN TEH TOWNLAND OF PALLAS. ALL ANCILLARY STIE AND GROUND WORKS, APPARATUS AND SIGNAGE. THE APPLICATION IS SEEKING A TEN YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION AND 35 YEAR OPERATIONAL LIFE FROM THE DATE OF COMMISSIONING OF THE WINDFARM. THE APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BYA NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR)
Permission · Kerry County Council, 211338
9 Dec 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTIC DEVELOPMENT WHICH WILL BE SERVED BY CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 201199
18 May 2018Conditional
ERECT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18468
25 Oct 2017Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCT OF AN INTEGRATED CONSTRUCTED WETLAND (ICW) FOR THE TREATMENT OF COMBINED WASTE WATER FROM THE LIXNAW AGGLOMERATION, COMPRISING OF TWO SETTLEMENT PONDS, FOUR TREATMENT CELLS AND PUMP STATION, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A VIEWING WINDOW TO THE RIVER BRICK, (3) DECOMMISSION EXISTING WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PUMP STATION AND (4) ANCILLARY WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT
Permission · Kerry County Council, 171061
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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
- KE016-010 Ringfort - rath
Description
This large circular enclosure is marked on the 1841-42 and 1914-15 OS maps; half of it lies on OS 6-inch Sheet 15, while the rest is on the present map. This site shows up on the Geological Survey of Ireland's aerial photographs (1974), but it has since been levelled. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 620. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE016-011 Enclosure
Description
Situated on fairly water-logged and marshy land, this circular enclosure is marked on the 1841-42 and 1914-15 OS maps. Today all that survives is a raised sub-circular area, which is cut on the S side by a fieldbank running E-W. It has a very gentle, 1m rise above the surrounding land. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1067. 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 Clogher.
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 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 Clogher.
- 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 Clogher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Clogher · An Cloichear
- Area
- 1,198,157 m² (119.82 ha, 296.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltomy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Lixnaw, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lixnaw electoral division: 1,134 people in 424 households; 67% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynagare, Coolaruane, Farrandeen, Lixnaw, Monument, Muckenagh
- Placenames
- Clogher 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.