Cloghermore

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghermore, from 145 m² to 38,429 m² (3.84 ha, 9.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Cloghermore 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.

• 16 Jul 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING SERVICED WITH A MECHANICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER, ALL WITH ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24301

• 21 Jun 2021Conditional

  (A) DEMOLISH EXISTING GARAGE, EXISTING UTILITY ROOM AND DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK (B) ALTER EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE (C) RAISE ROOF OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO ALLOW FOR UPSTAIRS ACCOMMODATION,ELEVATION CHANGES AND CONSTRUCT SIDE EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (D) CONSTRUCT DOMESTIC GARAGE (E) INSTALL WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT FOLLOWED BY A SANDCEL POLISHING FILTER (F) CONSTRUCT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21666

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloghermore.

Recorded monuments

• KE030-068 Cave
  Description

  'The Cave at Cloghermore was excavated over two seasons between 1999-2000 under license number 99E0431. The site produced large quantities of disarticulated human and animal bone, as well as cremated animal bone, over 300 artefacts and a single articulated burial. The site is interpreted as being a two phase burial site, the first phase of use representing a small local non-Christian population in the 8th century, while the second phase involved the insertion of 6 burials (KE030-089----) of Scandinavian character in the late 9th century. A total of 19 radiocarbon dates were taken from the site.' (Connolly et al. 2005) Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008 Date of upload: 22 June 2012 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1998).

• KE030-069 Enclosure
  Description

  'The Cave at Cloghermore was excavated over two seasons between 1999-2000 under license number 99E0431. The site produced large quantities of disarticulated human and animal bone, as well as cremated animal bone, over 300 artefacts and a single articulated burial. The site is interpreted as being a two phase burial site, the first phase of use representing a small local non-Christian population in the 8th century, while the second phase involved the insertion of 6 burials (KE030-089----) of Scandinavian character in the late 9th century. A total of 19 radiocarbon dates were taken from the site.' (Connolly et al. 2005) Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008

• KE030-089 Burial
  Description

  'The Cave (KE030-068---) at Cloghermore was excavated over two seasons between 1999-2000 under license number 99E0431. The site produced large quantities of disarticulated human and animal bone, as well as cremated animal bone, over 300 artefacts and a single articulated burial. The site is interpreted as being a two phase burial site, the first phase of use representing a small local non-Christian population in the 8th century, while the second phase involved the insertion of 6 burials of Scandinavian character in the late 9th century. A total of 19 radiocarbon dates were taken from the site.' (Connolly et al. 2005) Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008

• KE030-100 Enclosure
  Description

  The sites comprising this monument group are located on and under a large limestone reef from which the townland takes its name. The sites include a cave (KE030-068----), two enclosures (KE030-101----) and a cairn (KE030-102----). The Cave at Cloghermore was excavated over two seasons between 1999-2000 under license number 99E0431. A number of curving banks (LVS030 1903), on average 0.55m high are visible on the southern side of the reef, to the north-west of the enclosure (KE030-069-----) containing the cave entrance. The banks are associated with a shallow depression and may indicate the presence of another archaeological feature. Above description is from 'Tralee Area Monument Catalogue' part of a PhD thesis submitted by Michael Connolly to UCC.

• KE030-101 Enclosure
  Description

  The sites comprising this monument group are located on and under a large limestone reef from which the townland takes its name. The sites include a cave (KE030-068----), two enclosures and a cairn (KE030-102----). The Cave at Cloghermore was excavated over two seasons between 1999-2000 under license number 99E0431. An enclosure (LVS030 1901) is located on the western end of the reef. The western side of the enclosure has been levelled, while the eastern side is reflected in a curving field boundary. The western side of the enclosure can bee seen as a cropmark on aerial photography. The curved field boundary indicates that the enclosure was 41m in diameter. Above description is from 'Tralee Area Monument Catalogue' part of a PhD thesis submitted by Michael Connolly to UCC.

• KE030-102 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  'A cairn [KE030-102----] is located on the summit of the reef and is very overgrown with bushes and briars. It is composed of limestone slabs and rocks and is 1.2m in height. The cairn measures 3.7m N-S and 4.6m E-W.' Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008 Date of upload: 22 June 2012

• KE030-103 Enclosure
  Description

  'A number of curving banks .....on average 0.55m high are visible on the southern side of the reef, to the north-west of the enclosure containing the cave entrance. The banks are associated with a shallow depression and may indicate the presence of another archaeological feature.' Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008 Date of upload: 22 June 2012

• KE030-122 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  'Owing to the importance of the limestone reef at Cloghermore as a probable cave burial site [KE030-089----] it was proposed to monitor this area before the N21 re-routing, i.e. that part of the road that ran near the outcrop. Six features of archaeological significance were uncovered. They appeared to be evidence of industrial activity such as iron smelting and were in the form off furnaces and pits. All the features were found to be circular in plan and ranged in diameter from 0.55m to 1.45m. Four of the features contained various amounts of iron slag and charcoal. One pit contained burnt red sandstone and charcoal but no slag. The remaining pit was filled with topsoil and may have been deliberately emptied in antiquity. It is likely that it too was used in some metalworking activity, owing to the evidence of intensive burning in the form of baked boulder clay. The only pit containing burnt and shattered stone produced a relatively early date of 3500+/-70 BP, while two other dates from separate pits/furnaces produced later dates of 1780+/-80 Bp and 1740+/-60 BP.' Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008 Date of upload: 24 July 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloghermore.

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

Name

Cloghermore · An Cloichear Mór

Area

202,680 m² (20.27 ha, 50.08 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacelligott, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Arabela, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Arabela electoral division: 1,664 people in 466 households; 91% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Arabela, Ballybeg, Coolnadead, Gortshanvally, Loughnacappagh

Placenames

Cloghermore 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.