Flintfield
Flintfield is a townland in the civil parish of Aglish, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Ceapach Uí Fhloinn.
- Area
- 59.9 ha
- 148 acres
- Land parcels
- 57
- registered freehold, median 2,357 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Flintfield, from 16 m² to 135,358 m² (13.54 ha, 33.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Flintfield 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 May 2025Conditional
Permission to construct (i) a two-storey house (ii) waste water treatment unit with polishing filter (iii) domestic garage and (iv) all associated services,
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560410
1 Aug 2024Conditional
(outline permission ref no. 21/523) to construct a dwelling house and garage with a wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter including all necessary site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460509
13 Jun 2024Conditional
Retention permission to retain dwelling within revised site boundaries.
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460378
31 May 2024N/a
Permission for development to construct a dwelling house and garage with a wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter including all necessary site works.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460344
15 Sept 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELILNG HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE SERVED BY SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211054
18 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH A WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER INCLUDING ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS
Outline permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21523
25 Oct 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 171066
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Flintfield.
Recorded monuments
- KE058-355 Enclosure
Description
In rough, ungrazed pasture on a SW-facing slope; Good views S->SW->W of mountains. Reported to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as the low remains of a large enclosure. Roughly circular area (diameter c. 40m) defined by sally trees; corresponds to large circular area defined by vegetation evident upon aerial photography (OSi, 2010). Low profile, oval shaped, raised area within northern sector; seen upon aerial photography as two small, conjoined circles (ibid). Oval area (dims. c. 5m N-S; c. 8m E-W) defined by scarp (Wth 1.8m-2m; H 0.25m-0.3m) SE->S->W->N->E and barely traceable NE->E->SE. Small area of briars along W-side. Interior is level and covered in matted vegetation of grasses and rushes. No potential feature depicted at this location upon historic mapping. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 12 January 2016
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Flintfield.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Flintfield, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- 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 Flintfield.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Flintfield, Faha8 sales
The townland
- Name
- Flintfield · Ceapach Uí Fhloinn
- Area
- 598,890 m² (59.89 ha, 147.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aglish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Aglish, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 520 people lived in 183 households in the Aglish electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolroe West, Doonkinane, Faha East, Kilclogherane, Laharan
- Placenames
- Flintfield 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.