Eirk

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Eirk, from 1,002 m² to 1,551,908 m² (155.19 ha, 383.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Eirk 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.

• 31 May 2022Conditional

  ERECT A 15 METER HIGH TELECOMMUNICATIONS MONOPOLE TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAS, DISHES AND ASSOCIATED TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT WITHIN A WOODEN FENCED COMPOUND AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS USING AN EXISTING ACCESS TRACK. ON COMPLETION OF THE WORKS THE EXISTING INSTALLATIONS COMPRISINIG TWO 13 METER HIGH WOODEN POLES, BOTH SUPPORTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT, WILL BE REMOVED

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 22569

• 29 Oct 2021Conditional

  INSTALL A 12M MONOPOLE TYPE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE, CARRYING ANTENNA AND DISHES TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED GROUND EQUIPMENT CABINETS, FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THE INSTALLATION WILL FORM PART OF THREE IRELAND LIMITED MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) IS SUBMITTED WITH APPLICATION

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 211230

• 19 Feb 2021Conditional

  UPGRADE OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK. THESE WORKS WILL INVOLVE THE REPLACEMENT OF AN EXISTING 8M WOODEN POLE FOR A 12 METRE HIGH FREE STANDING COMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURE WITH ITS ASSOCIATED ANTENNAE, COMMUNICATION DISH, GROUND EQUIPMENT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL FORM PART OF EIRCOM LTD EXISTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND BROADBAND NETWORK.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 21152

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Special Protection Area: Eirk Bog SPA 004108
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Eirk.

Architectural heritage

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

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Eirk · Adharc

Area

3,173,588 m² (317.36 ha, 784.21 acres)

Civil parish

Templenoe, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron South

Electoral division

Reen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Reen electoral division: 172 people in 69 households; 82% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 31% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrig East, Carrig West, Derrylahan, Derrylea, Derrynafunsha, Foardal, Looscaunagh

Placenames

Eirk 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.