Doolaig North

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doolaig North, from 741 m² to 886,944 m² (88.69 ha, 219.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Doolaig North 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.

• 17 Oct 2025Conditional

  Construction of a livestock underpass, effluent holding tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560946

• 6 Oct 2017Conditional

  (1) RETAIN TO CONTINUE THE USE OF THE AGRICULTURAL BUILDING AS BUILT AS AN ANIMAL SHELTER, (2) PERMISSION FOR AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED TO ALSO BE USED AS AN ANIMAL SHELTER AS PART OF THE ABOVE, (3) PERMISSION FOR OFFICE AND W/C AND ASSOCIATED TREATMENT UNIT / SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ALL

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 17989

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

• KE030-060 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KE030-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KE030-063 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 (KE030-100/101----) and a cairn (KE030-102----). The Cave at Cloghermore was excavated over two seasons between 1999-2000 under license number 99E0431. Excavation by Michael Connolly under licence No. 99E0431 was summarised as follows; 'During this second season, excavation continued both inside the cave itself and inside the D-shaped enclosure (KE030-063---) on the surface. Inside the cave the three remaining quadrants of the chamber known as ‘The Graveyard’ were excavated, and most of the soil that formed the upper layer in the sloping entrance gallery was removed. The enclosure excavation Three further trenches, in addition to the one excavated last year (Excavations 1999, 113–14), were opened, two in the interior and one across the enclosing bank. The trench across the bank confirmed the findings from last year—the bank was composed of two stone-and-earth banks with a ditch between them; however, the ditch here was cut into the underlying boulder clay rather than through the bedrock. The trenches opened in the interior, on the western and east-south-eastern sides of the entrance shaft, indicated that a bowl-shaped depression had been excavated around the entrance and subsequently filled. This was presumably necessary to facilitate enlargement of the natural opening to the cave and construction of the drystone walling of the entrance shaft. The largest trench was that opened on the eastern and south-eastern sides of the entrance shaft (4.5m north–south x 7.5m). Centrally placed within the trench were the remains of a pyre where the animal bone uncovered within the stone setting in ‘The Graveyard’ had been cremated. The pyre was situated in a subcircular depression from which a flue extended eastward. Elsewhere in the trench, 22 stake- and post-holes, as well as two slot-trenches, were excavated. The holes varied in diameter from 0.06m to 0.8m, and a number of the post-holes contained stones, which were probably used as packing for the wooden posts. The longer of the two slot-trenches was truncated by the later flue of the cremation pyre, while the decorated side plates of a bone comb were also recovered from this slot-trench' (Connolly 2002).

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately high, 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 Doolaig North.

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

Name

Doolaig North

Area

2,140,488 m² (214.05 ha, 528.93 acres)

Civil parish

Castleisland, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Lackabaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lackabaun electoral division: 435 people in 164 households; 90% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Broughane, Crag, Doolaig South, Knockariddera, Knockatarriv, Lackabaun, Nohaval North, Nohaval South, Tooreennastooka

Placenames

Doolaig North 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.