Douglas
Douglas is a townland in the civil parish of Killorglin, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is An Dúghlaise.
- Area
- 122.2 ha
- 302 acres
- Land parcels
- 92
- registered freehold, median 4,205 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Douglas, from 90 m² to 223,984 m² (22.4 ha, 55.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Douglas 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
2 Feb 2021Conditional
CHANGE THE USE OF THE EXISTING OLD SCHOOLHOUSE TO A RESIDENCE, ITS REFURBISHMENT AND THE INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2175
20 May 2019Conditional
ERECT NEW DWELLING AND GARAGE SERVED BY WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT, SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19524
10 Apr 2019N/a
ERECT NEW DWELLING AND GARAGE SERVED BY WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT, SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 19371
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: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343
- Special Protection Area: Castlemaine Harbour SPA 004029
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Castlemaine Harbour 000343
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Douglas.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Douglas.
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 Douglas, about 1 in 10 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_47 (ZIP).
- 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 Douglas with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Douglas · An Dúghlaise
- Area
- 1,222,232 m² (122.22 ha, 302.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killorglin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Killorglin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 4,670 people lived in 1,826 households in the Killorglin electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Garrane West, Tullig More
- Placenames
- Douglas 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.