# Dunferris, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lisselton, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry; in Irish Dún Fhearghasa. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 644,691 m² (64.47 ha, 159.31 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,929 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lisselton, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/lisselton.md - Barony: Iraghticonnor - Electoral division: Urlee, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 376 people lived in 148 households in the Urlee electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24228 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71216 - Centre: latitude 52.4839, longitude -9.63268 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunferris, from 400 m² to 159,562 m² (15.96 ha, 39.43 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1200356: 159,562 m² (15.96 ha, 39.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1200356.md - Parcel 1151088: 80,696 m² (8.07 ha, 19.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1151088.md - Parcel 1530430: 75,005 m² (7.5 ha, 18.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1530430.md - Parcel 1144930: 73,177 m² (7.32 ha, 18.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1144930.md - Parcel 1145420: 49,813 m² (4.98 ha, 12.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1145420.md - Parcel 1220619: 40,593 m² (4.06 ha, 10.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1220619.md - Parcel 1199949: 30,555 m² (3.06 ha, 7.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1199949.md - Parcel 1164947: 30,539 m² (3.05 ha, 7.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1164947.md - Parcel 1225966: 9,257 m² (0.93 ha, 2.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1225966.md - Parcel 1223369: 5,504 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1223369.md - Parcel 1154826: 4,304 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1154826.md - Parcel 3005888: 4,204 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3005888.md - Parcel 1197774: 3,719 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1197774.md - Parcel 1191551: 3,479 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1191551.md - Parcel 1164946: 3,381 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1164946.md - Parcel 1148416: 3,359 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1148416.md - Parcel 1149335: 3,085 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1149335.md - Parcel 1193549: 2,952 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1193549.md - Parcel 1151586: 2,929 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1151586.md - Parcel 1214548: 2,819 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1214548.md - Parcel 1213154: 2,729 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1213154.md - Parcel 1211587: 2,686 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1211587.md - Parcel 1237065: 2,682 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1237065.md - Parcel 1190506: 2,553 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1190506.md - Parcel 1190507: 2,484 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1190507.md - Parcel 5768823: 2,360 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5768823.md - Parcel 1196451: 2,209 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1196451.md - Parcel 1241932: 2,182 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1241932.md - Parcel 1194483: 2,109 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1194483.md - Parcel 1194272: 2,052 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1194272.md - Parcel 1197055: 1,829 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1197055.md - Parcel 1139494: 1,791 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1139494.md - Parcel 1195042: 1,675 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1195042.md - Parcel 1196773: 608 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1196773.md - Parcel 5826589: 567 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5826589.md - Parcel 1192672: 549 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1192672.md - Parcel 1146441: 400 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1146441.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Dunferris 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 24 Sept 2025, Kerry County Council 2560870: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCT A MACHINERY/AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560870/0 - 15 Nov 2024, Kerry County Council 2460891: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. OF (A) DEMOLISH EXISTING 2 STOREY DWELLING ON SITE (EIRCODE V31 ET61), (B) DEMOLISH EXISTING DERELICT SHED, (C) CONSTRUCT A NEW SHED, (D) DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, (E) CONSTRUCT A NEW 2 STOREY DWELLING WHICH WILL BE SERVED BY A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SANDCEL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460891/0 - 2 Aug 2024, Kerry County Council 2460514: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. Retention permission to retain garage conversion, storage area/shower room to his house and associated site works all as built. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460514/0 - 5 Apr 2017, Kerry County Council 17299: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCT STABLES, PADDOCK AND UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT TANK ALL WITH ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/17299/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC, site code 002165, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002165 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cashen River Estuary, site code 001340 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dunferris. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dunferris. ## 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 Dunferris, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dunferris. - 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/dunferris.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dunferris.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dunferris.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Dunferris with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Blackparks: https://everytownland.com/kerry/blackparks.md - Gortagurrane West: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortagurrane-west.md - Gortnaskeha: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortnaskeha.md - Lisladraun: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lisladraun.md - Mweevoo: https://everytownland.com/kerry/mweevoo.md - Rahoonagh: https://everytownland.com/kerry/rahoonagh.md - Rathroe: https://everytownland.com/kerry/rathroe.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/dunferris - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/dunferris