# Eirk, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Templenoe, barony of Dunkerron South, Co. Kerry; in Irish Adharc. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,173,588 m² (317.36 ha, 784.21 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 16,702 m² (1.67 ha, 4.13 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Templenoe, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/templenoe.md - Barony: Dunkerron South - Electoral division: Reen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 172 people lived in 69 households in the Reen electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 31% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23123 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71226 - Centre: latitude 51.94352, longitude -9.646874 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Eirk, from 1,002 m² to 1,551,908 m² (155.19 ha, 383.48 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1152166: 1,551,908 m² (155.19 ha, 383.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1152166.md - Parcel 1192910: 992,566 m² (99.26 ha, 245.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1192910.md - Parcel 1138370: 42,940 m² (4.29 ha, 10.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1138370.md - Parcel 1208827: 24,974 m² (2.5 ha, 6.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1208827.md - Parcel 1210079: 23,540 m² (2.35 ha, 5.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1210079.md - Parcel 1222741: 9,865 m² (0.99 ha, 2.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1222741.md - Parcel 1197221: 4,605 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1197221.md - Parcel 1184052: 4,031 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1184052.md - Parcel 1147266: 1,317 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1147266.md - Parcel 1198219: 1,002 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1198219.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 31 May 2022, Kerry County Council 22569: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/22569/0 - 29 Oct 2021, Kerry County Council 211230: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/211230/0 - 19 Feb 2021, Kerry County Council 21152: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/21152/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC, site code 000365, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000365 - Special Protection Area: Eirk Bog SPA, site code 004108, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004108 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment, site code 000365 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Eirk. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Eirk. ## 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 Eirk, 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. Parts of the land 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, 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/eirk.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/eirk.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/eirk.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Eirk 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) - Carrig East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/carrig-east.md - Carrig West: https://everytownland.com/kerry/carrig-west.md - Derrylahan: https://everytownland.com/kerry/derrylahan-71044.md - Derrylea: https://everytownland.com/kerry/derrylea.md - Derrynafunsha: https://everytownland.com/kerry/derrynafunsha.md - Foardal: https://everytownland.com/kerry/foardal.md - Looscaunagh: https://everytownland.com/kerry/looscaunagh.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/eirk - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/eirk