Dohilla
Dohilla is a townland in the civil parish of Valencia, barony of Iveragh, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Dó Choille.
- Area
- 95.8 ha
- 237 acres
- Land parcels
- 52
- registered freehold, median 2,181 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dohilla, from 62 m² to 100,546 m² (10.05 ha, 24.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 4 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
No zone of a development plan covers Dohilla 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
23 Nov 2021Conditional
REMOVE THE 1990'S EXTENSION TO THE NORTH AND THE ADJOINING GARAGE STRUCTURE TO THE WEST. THE COSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY PITCHED ROOF EXTENSION TO THE NORTH AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A LOW-LEVEL SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE WEST ELEVATION WITH ONE ASSOCIATED ROOF LIGHT. THE REPLACEMNET OF THE EXISTING LEAN TO ROOF TO THE SOUTH WITH NEW FLAT ROOF CONSTRUCTION AND THE RENOVATION OF THE ORIGINAL CONNECTING COTTAGES. THE NEW GATES WITHIN THE EXISTING GATE OPENING, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE AND LANDSCAPING WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211337
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: Valencia Harbour/Portmagee Channel SAC 002262
- Special Protection Area: Iveragh Peninsula SPA 004154
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Valencia Island Cliffs 001382
Recorded monuments
- KE078-001 Hut site
Description
Toward the landward end of Reenadrolaun Point, c. 80m NE of Coosnahorna, a deep, narrow inlet. Remains of the S half of a circular hut KE078-001----, occurring within an old field system. A double slab-lined wall with a stone infill occupying an area roughly 3.2m in internal diameter. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1258. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013
- KE078-001001 Field boundary
Description
In rough pasture, on a NE-facing slope, at the SE end of Reenadrolaun Point. This network of relict field walls is indicated by the remains of both linear and curvilinear walls (Wth c. 0.7m; H c. 0.9m) which occur intermittently in an irregular-shaped area (c. 120m NW-SE; c. 60m NE -SW). Upright stones from the walls protrude above the ground surface at irregular intervals. Elsewhere the remains consist of a scatter of stones on the ground surface. No definite field pattern was noted at ground level. There is a hut site (KE078-001----) to the NW. (See O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, 401, no. 1258) 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
- KE078-029 Quarry
Description
This is a slate quarry on Valentia Island. It is of post-1700 date. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dohilla.
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
- The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Dohilla.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dohilla.
- 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 Dohilla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Dohilla · Dó Choille
- Area
- 958,064 m² (95.81 ha, 236.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Valencia, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iveragh
- Electoral division
- Valencia, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 658 people lived in 264 households in the Valencia electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 53% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Feaghmaan East, Feaghmaan West, Gortgower
- Placenames
- Dohilla 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.