Dicksgrove
Dicksgrove is a townland in the civil parish of Dysert (Tralee Ra), barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry.
- Area
- 91.4 ha
- 226 acres
- Land parcels
- 58
- registered freehold, median 6,084 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dicksgrove, from 181 m² to 72,751 m² (7.28 ha, 17.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Castleisland-Corca Dhuibhne Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 3 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Landscape Protection (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Castleisland-Corca Dhuibhne Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 3 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), 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
10 Jul 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND NEW SITE ENTRANCE WITH SPLAYED ENTRANCE WALLS, INCLUDING AN ON SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM. THE PROPOSED INSTALLATION WILL INCLUDE A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT FOLLOWED BY A RAISED SOIL POLISHING FILTER, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND BOUNDARY TREATMENT
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24290
17 Oct 2023Conditional
Permission to a) construct a new dwelling, b) install a mechanical treatment unit and raised soil polishing filter, c) construct a vehicular site entrance and d) construct all associated site works on Site B. Retention Permission to retain the existing dwelling, garage and associated services, within revised site boundaries on Site A.
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360239
8 Mar 2021Conditional
ERECT 6 NO. LIGHTING COLUMNS AND FLOOD LIGHTS WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21230
2 Apr 2019Conditional
RETAIN 3 NO. TEMPORARY PORTACABINS WITHIN THE EXISTING AIRPORT COMPLEX TO FACILITATE A WAITING AREA FOR PASSENGERS AND OFFICE SPACE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATION PURPOSES. THE PERMISSION SOUGHT IS FOR A PERIOD OF SEVEN YEARS.
Retention · Kerry County Council, 19335
1 Jun 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT PROPOSED STORAGE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Kerry County Council, 18532
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Dicksgrove.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dicksgrove.
Architectural heritage
- Dicksgrove, gate lodge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Detached circular-plan single-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1800, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to south and single-storey gabled bay window to south-east. Extended to east with two-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting bay. Conical slate roof with three gabled projecting and flush bay, and central circular brick chimneystack. Rendered walls. Vertical timber boarding to bay window. Replacement aluminium windows. Projecting limestone door surround.
- Dicksgrove, gate lodge, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey Victorian gate lodge, built c. 1875, with single-bay single-storey canted projecting porch to west. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with gabled bays, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Round-headed windows with painted sills. Most windows boarded up or having replacement timber casements. Square-headed doorway in projecting hipped porch with timber boarded door and screeded steps. Two circular limestone ashlar gate posts, missing cappings.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Dicksgrove, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dicksgrove.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Dicksgrove with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Dicksgrove
- Area
- 913,523 m² (91.35 ha, 225.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dysert (Tralee Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Killeentierna, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 872 people lived in 331 households in the Killeentierna electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonclogh, Dromroe, Laharan, Parknasmuttaun, Ranalough
- Placenames
- Dicksgrove 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.