Feorus East

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Feorus East, from 40 m² to 531,120 m² (53.11 ha, 131.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Feorus East 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 Mar 2021Conditional

  (A) PERMISSION TO DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND CONSTRUCT A NEW UPGRADED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM CONSISTING OF A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER, (B) PERMISSION TO RETAIN A DOMESTIC SHED AND (C) PERMISSION TO RETAIN THE DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHEDS, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, SITE ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21336

• 16 Oct 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW SLATTED LIFESTOCK HOUSE. PROPOSED SLATTED HOUSE TO INCORPORATE CREEP/CALVING AREA AND ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK WITH EXTERNAL AGITATION AND ANCILLARY CONCRETE. THE ABOVE TO BE CARRIED OUT WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 20981

• 20 Mar 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACTHED TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE; A ONE-STOREY THREE BAY GARAGE; A MECHANCIAL AERATION UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE FROM THE PUBLIC ROAD. THE APPLICATION IS A CHANGE OF DESIGN OF THE HOUSE GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER 10/237 AND 10/9237 (EXP AUG 2020)

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20275

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: Kenmare River SAC 002158

Recorded monuments

• KE101-122 Bridge
  Description

  Abandoned road bridge (Wth 5.4m; long axis E-W) on the line of the old KenmareCastletownbere road. Built of random rubble. Single semicircular arch (span 3.4m) with narrow roughly shaped voussoirs. Parapets partially collapsed but some vertical stone coping survives in places. On the 1895-7 OS 6-inch map the name Feorus Br. is applied to a newer bridge (KE101-123---) built c. 100m downstream to the N on the new line of the KenmareCastletownbere road. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE101-123 Bridge
  Description

  Mid-19th-century road bridge (Wth c. 7.2m; long axis E-W) spanning n-flowing tributary of the Kenmare River. Very overgrown but body appears to be of semi-coursed sandstone ashlar. Single semicircular arch with roughly saped. Base of parapets oversail body of bridge. Vertical stone coping on parapets. Stone used to build bridge was quarried using explosives as evidenced by drill holes in many of the stones. Bridge appears to have been built in 1840s during the construction of the new line of the KenmareCastletownbere road and replaced an older bridge (KE101-122---) c. 100m to the S. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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 Feorus East.

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

Name

Feorus East · Feoras Thoir

Area

945,145 m² (94.51 ha, 233.55 acres)

Civil parish

Tuosist, and its townlands

Barony

Glanarought

Electoral division

Dawros, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dawros electoral division: 611 people in 226 households; 88% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carks, Cooryeen, Derreenacallaha, Dromroe, Feorus West, Muckera

Placenames

Feorus East 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.