# Doonamontane, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballyheige, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,124,342 m² (112.43 ha, 277.83 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,556 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballyheige, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/ballyheige.md - Barony: Clanmaurice - Electoral division: Ballyheige, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,446 people lived in 570 households in the Ballyheige electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24347 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71093 - Centre: latitude 52.405092, longitude -9.855161 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonamontane, from 213 m² to 100,005 m² (10 ha, 24.71 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1209353: 100,005 m² (10 ha, 24.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1209353.md - Parcel 1245521: 71,584 m² (7.16 ha, 17.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1245521.md - Parcel 1211512: 60,976 m² (6.1 ha, 15.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1211512.md - Parcel 1245519: 53,306 m² (5.33 ha, 13.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1245519.md - Parcel 1245520: 51,635 m² (5.16 ha, 12.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1245520.md - Parcel 1237187: 39,520 m² (3.95 ha, 9.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1237187.md - Parcel 1247684: 36,154 m² (3.62 ha, 8.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1247684.md - Parcel 4174950: 33,429 m² (3.34 ha, 8.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4174950.md - Parcel 1152379: 22,781 m² (2.28 ha, 5.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1152379.md - Parcel 1189937: 21,144 m² (2.11 ha, 5.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1189937.md - Parcel 1199584: 20,903 m² (2.09 ha, 5.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1199584.md - Parcel 3847138: 20,817 m² (2.08 ha, 5.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3847138.md - Parcel 1246037: 18,617 m² (1.86 ha, 4.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1246037.md - Parcel 1147807: 15,586 m² (1.56 ha, 3.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1147807.md - Parcel 1210316: 15,093 m² (1.51 ha, 3.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1210316.md - Parcel 1140772: 13,952 m² (1.4 ha, 3.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1140772.md - Parcel 1197707: 13,752 m² (1.38 ha, 3.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1197707.md - Parcel 1244536: 12,931 m² (1.29 ha, 3.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1244536.md - Parcel 1220644: 11,939 m² (1.19 ha, 2.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1220644.md - Parcel 1246582: 9,909 m² (0.99 ha, 2.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1246582.md - Parcel 1161949: 7,390 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1161949.md - Parcel 1152566: 6,518 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1152566.md - Parcel 1162830: 6,438 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1162830.md - Parcel 5888968: 6,431 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5888968.md - Parcel 1192313: 5,875 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1192313.md - Parcel 1150081: 4,761 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1150081.md - Parcel 1138538: 4,339 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1138538.md - Parcel 1178366: 3,918 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1178366.md - Parcel 1187525: 3,654 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1187525.md - Parcel 1180261: 3,645 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1180261.md - Parcel 1164354: 3,467 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1164354.md - Parcel 1245055: 3,439 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1245055.md - Parcel 3012829: 2,572 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3012829.md - Parcel 5888990: 2,545 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5888990.md - Parcel 3012830: 2,291 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3012830.md - Parcel 1177558: 2,269 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1177558.md - Parcel 1192036: 2,233 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1192036.md - Parcel 1164184: 2,225 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1164184.md - Parcel 1144682: 2,180 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1144682.md - Parcel 2879274: 2,175 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2879274.md - Parcel 1179258: 2,117 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1179258.md - Parcel 1140004: 2,106 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1140004.md - Parcel 1148823: 1,950 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1148823.md - Parcel 1177615: 1,811 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1177615.md - Parcel 1194694: 1,787 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1194694.md - Parcel 1153776: 1,706 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1153776.md - Parcel 1141885: 1,661 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1141885.md - Parcel 1153507: 1,630 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1153507.md - Parcel 1149636: 1,598 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1149636.md - Parcel 1187840: 1,598 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1187840.md - Parcel 1150266: 1,589 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1150266.md - Parcel 1139460: 1,584 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1139460.md - Parcel 5219002: 1,495 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5219002.md - Parcel 4882742: 1,242 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4882742.md - Parcel 1139096: 1,027 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1139096.md - Parcel 2432891: 899 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2432891.md - Parcel 1153085: 857 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1153085.md - Parcel 3325115: 750 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3325115.md - Parcel 1204725: 506 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1204725.md - Parcel 1145028: 213 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1145028.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Doonamontane in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 28 Jun 2021, Kerry County Council 21716: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ALTER AND CHANGE USE OF EXISTING DWELLING TO DOMESTIC GARAGE AND DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK. PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY REPLACEMENT DWELLING AND NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE , AND FOR THE INSTALLATION OF A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT , INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/21716/0 - 8 Jun 2021, Kerry County Council 21617: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. TO RETAIN CHANGE OF USE OF THE ROOF SPACE TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION WITH ASSOCIATED VELUX ROOF WINDOWS AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AT OUR DWELLING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/21617/0 - 7 Dec 2018, Kerry County Council 181204: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (I) SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO BOTH SIDES OF EXISTING BUNGALOW AND (II) INSTALLATION OF ROOF-LIGHTS TO FRONT AND REAR ELEAVATIONS OF EXISTING BUNGALOW. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/181204/0 - 30 Nov 2018, Kerry County Council 181182: Refused. Permission, 1 home. ERECT A BUNGALOW WITH A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, ALSO TO PROVIDE AN ACCESS DRIVE TO SAME AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO HIS SITE ALL. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/181182/0 - 23 Oct 2018, Kerry County Council 181020: N/a. Permission. ERECT A BUNGALOW WITH A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, ALSO TO PROVIDE AN ACCESS DRIVE TO SAME AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO HIS SITE ALL. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/181020/0 - 10 Apr 2017, Kerry County Council 17320: Conditional. Retention. (A) RETAIN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION AS BUILT, SERVED BY EXISTING SEPTIC TANK PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND (B) RETAIN EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE / BOILER ROOM AS BUILT, ALL WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/17320/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Doonamontane. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE014-017: Linear earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE014-017----. The Red Ditch. The possible starting point of this earthwork is situated N of Cahercarbery (More) promontory fort (KE013-001----). It is marked on the 1840-41 and 1916 OS maps as 'Track of Red Ditch'. It is better known as the 'Claí Rua', phonetically called 'Cleeroo'. Many accounts have been written on the Claí Rua, but though there are few precise details, a number of traditional accounts survive. This linear earthwork would appear to have been first noticed by Smith in 1756. It can be traced running up Triskmore Mountain in a NW-SE direction (section 1 on drawing). It then disappears for some 3700m before re-appearing on the E summit of Maulin Mountain, where it can again be traced. It is also marked on OS 6-inch map 14. It runs through the N sector of the townlands of Dromatoor, Doonamontane, Knockane and Dirtane (section 2 on drawing). From this point it is difficult to trace. According to Smith (1756), the ditch runs towards the Cashen river, re-appears at the other side, crosses Knockanure Mountain and continues into Co. Limerick. Westropp (1909) attests to its forming the S mear of Glenlea and continuing in a SE direction by an old path in Booleenshare. Beyond this there is a concentration of ringforts. Possibly the earthwork is connected in some way to this concentration and might even have been the cause of the build-up of ringforts at this location. Both Smith and Westropp state that the Claí Rua runs into Co. Limerick and may be connected with the Claí Dubh na Rátha (the black ditch of the rath) near Charleville, Co. Cork. Today, the Claí Rua survives as a shallow ditch with a low bank to the SW. The bank is 1.7m wide and .4m high. The ditch, which was originally flat bottomed, is .7m wide and .3m below the surrounding land. It is difficult to ascertain the function of these linear earthworks as very little work has been done on them to date. The most well known earthwork of this type is the Black Pig's Dyke, the ancient boundary fortification of the Ulaidh in Ulster. The Claí Rua could have had more than one function and according to O'Conchuir (1987), this linear earthwork may represent the limit of the Uí Bhriain advance against their Irish neighbours, perhaps the Ciarraighe. According to local people, the Claí Rua was a roadway which was used by the peasantry to bring their produce to the markets in Co. Limerick. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1113. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 October 2013 - KE014-110: Cairn - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE014-110----. Depicted on the 1841-42 OS 6-inch map as a possible cairn and named 'Curravarra'. At this position on the 1916 OS 6-inch map is a small circular feature similar to a hut site with a diameter of c. 10m. On the 1916 OS 6-inch map, the name 'Curravarra' is attached to another possible cairn (KE014-018----) which lies c. 500m to the ENE. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne Date of upload: 19 December 2013 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Doonamontane. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Doonamontane, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Doonamontane. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/doonamontane.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/doonamontane.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/doonamontane.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Doonamontane, Ballyheigue: 6 sales, https://everytownland.com/kerry/doonamontane-ballyheigue.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyheige: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballyheige.md - Dromatoor: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromatoor.md - Glandahalin East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/glandahalin-east.md - Knockane: https://everytownland.com/kerry/knockane-71895.md - Tiershanaghan: https://everytownland.com/kerry/tiershanaghan.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/doonamontane - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/doonamontane