Dreenagh

130 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dreenagh, from 106 m² to 566,946 m² (56.69 ha, 140.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Dreenagh 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.

• 2 Feb 2024Refused

  TO CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE SERVICED WITH A MECHANICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM AND RAISED SAND POLISHING FILTER ALONG WITH ALL EXTERNAL WORKS ON SITE

  Outline permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2441

• 26 Jun 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND TRICEL PURAFLO UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23719

• 2 Nov 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN AGRICULTURAL SHED FOR HAY, STRAW AND MACHINERY STORAGE, A SILAGE BASE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 211244

• 26 Nov 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT FOR AN EASY FEED SLATTED CUBICLE HOUSE COMPLETE WITH SLURRY TANK, CUBICLES, FEED BARRIER, CATTLE CRUSH AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 181153

• 22 Aug 2018Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCT AN EASY FEED WINTERING UNIT, COMPLETE WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANKS INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY CONCRETE AND SITE WORKS (2) CONSTRUCT A FARM STORAGE/GENERAL PURPOSE BUILDING

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 18827

• 5 Jun 2018Conditional

  EXTEND AND RENOVATE THE EXISTING DWELLING WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18537

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: Kerry Head SPA 004189

Recorded monuments

• KE008-005 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  Possible promontory fort described in 1995 as; 'This promontory fort is not marked on any edition of the OS maps. Originally there was one here, according to local tradition, though no trace survives today' (Toal 1995, no. 108). Possible fort described by Casey (2002, 44) as; ‘A triangular north-facing headland flanked by a deep chasm on either side was cut off along its broad neck by a 4.5m wide fosse and earthen banks, now reduced to a scarp less than 1m wide. Best preserved along the east, a 3m wide causeway crosses that fosse some 19m from the eastern edge. The interior measures 35m wide and 38m long and the remains of a perimeter bank runs along the western cliff edge. The interior is flat, with the northern extremity sloping down to the point. The garth is featureless and consists of coarse pasture. Generally the area is one of hilly fertile cleared and drained pasture. This is likely to be the site of the promontory fort mentioned in the Kerry Archaeological Survey but not located.’

• KE013-036 Signal tower
  Description

  Situated at the edge of a relatively level area of ground that overlooks Kerry Head to the W (c. 137m OD). The nearest point of the coastline is located approximately 625m to the NW. Located on a minor hilltop with a long moderate slope to the NE. The surrounding area consists of enclosed pasture and arable fields (defined by linear rubble stone walls and earthen banks) to the E, and by unenclosed rough pasture to the W, NW and SW. The adjacent towers in the signal tower chain are found at Loop Head, County Clare (CL071-043-----), located c. 16.6kms to the N but now demolished, and at Ballydavid Head (KE033-027----), now ruinous, located c. 37kms to the SW. There were intermediate enclosed barracks sites associated with the signal tower network located between Ballydavid Head (KE033-027---) and this site at Kerry Head, which were located at Rough Point, Kilshannig (KE019-007----), located c. 13.7kms to the SSW but now demolished, and at Brandon Head (KE025-004----), located c. 29.1kms to the SW, now collapsed. The site of this signal tower at Kerry Head is located c. 4kms W of the remains of St. Dahalin’s Church (KE14-001----), and c. 2.1kms NE of Cahercarbery Beg (KE013-012----), a coastal promontory fort located at Kerry Head. The site of an early nineteenth-century (c. 1804-5) originally two-storey square-plan signal tower (approx. ext. dims. 5.85m NE-SW x 5.85m NW-SE). The signal tower has been demolished. Kerrigan established that the signal tower was completed by 1805 (Kerrigan 1995, 278). The Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map, surveyed 1841-2, shows a rectangular enclosure with a rounded end at the NW. A square-plan building, assumed to be the signal tower, is centrally located within the enclosure with a square internal enclosure to the SW and with a wall running along the long axis dividing the NW end of the enclosure. A large rectangular-plan building is shown to the SE of the signal tower, possibly a barracks or residential block, and two smaller rectangular-plan buildings are shown in the NE part of the enclosure. The site is indicated on this map as ‘Barrack & Signal Tower (in Ruins)’. On the Ordnance Survey second ed. six-inch map, surveyed 1894-8, these buildings have been removed, and the only building present is a long thin rectangular-plan building overlying the former position of the signal tower. The long thin rectangular building is still shown on the Ordnance Survey third edition six-inch map, surveyed 1914-5. This building has subsequently been demolished and no obvious traces of the signal tower or the subsequent buildings are now visible. The signal tower was part of a system of over 80 signal stations constructed by the British Board of Ordnance in the first decade of the 19th century to warn of the approach of a French invasion fleet. Signalling between sites was accomplished using a naval signal post. The system formed a continuous chain from Dublin Bay running clockwise all the way around the coast to Malin Head in County Donegal. It was abandoned by the mid-1810s when the threat of a French invasion diminished (Kerrigan 1995, 157-66). Compiled by: Stuart Rathbone Uploaded on: 25/07/22

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dreenagh.

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.

• Dreenagh, Ballyheigue8 sales

Name

Dreenagh

Area

3,784,213 m² (378.42 ha, 935.1 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyheige, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Kerryhead, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kerryhead electoral division: 624 people in 224 households; 92% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glenderry, Maulin, Tiduff

Placenames

Dreenagh 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.