Foilmore

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foilmore, from 42 m² to 522,574 m² (52.26 ha, 129.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Foilmore 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Foilmore in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Foilmore.

Recorded monuments

• KE070-054 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  An earthen bank and a fosse enclose this large D-shaped area, which is defined along its N sector by a 6m high meander scarp which extends for 58m. A number of low amorphous banks and mounds and a circular hut occupy the interior of the site. Measuring 85m NE-SW x 62m NW-SE internally, it overlooks the confluence of the Ferta river with one of its tributaries. The enclosing bank, composed largely of earth, is somewhat disturbed and modified. It is capped for most of its E sector with modern stone walling. It averages 1m in internal height, has a basal width of up to 5m and falls 1.85m to the external fosse. The fosse is preserved intermittently and survives best along the SE and W sectors. Here it averages 3m wide at base and .45m deep below external ground level. The bank and fosse are gapped and disturbed in a number of places. A gap at ENE, 3m wide, may represent the original entrance to the enclosure. The NW half of the site's interior is occupied by a number of low, grass-grown banks of stony composition. Some of these define a rectangular area, 32m NW-SE x 25m NE-SW, open to NW, within which is a meandering stretch of bank, a stony mound, c. 6m x c. 5m, with a high content of quartz, and the foundations of a sub-circular hut (KE070-054001-). The latter measures 6m in maximum internal diameter and its banks average 2m wide. Abutting the NW side of the rectangular area are a number of further banks, which join with a circular raised area close to the enclosing element of the site at NW. This is 1.15m high and measures 7m in average internal diameter. It may represent the remains of a second hut (KE070-054002-). The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 508. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE070-054001 Hut site
  Description

  The NW half of the site's interior is occupied by a number of low, grass-grown banks of stony composition. Some of these define a rectangular area, 32m NW-SE x 25m NE-SW, open to NW, within which is a meandering stretch of bank, a stony mound, c. 6m x c. 5m, with a high content of quartz, and the foundations of a sub-circular hut (KE070-054001-). The latter measures 6m in maximum internal diameter and its banks average 2m wide. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 508. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE070-054002 Hut site
  Description

  Abutting the NW side of the rectangular area are a number of further banks, which join with a circular raised area close to the enclosing element of the site at NW. This is 1.15m high and measures 7m in average internal diameter. It may represent the remains of a second hut (KE070-054002-). The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 508. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE070-055 Enclosure
  Description

  An oval enclosure, marked on the OS maps, was located at a sharp bend on the N bank of the Ferta river. A shallow depression now marks the location of the site, which was ploughed out during the 1960s. An area of overgrowth and boulders occurs at the NW sector of the depression, and at SE it rises 1m to external ground level. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 813. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Foilmore.

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

Name

Foilmore

Area

601,369 m² (60.14 ha, 148.6 acres)

Civil parish

Killinane, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Castlequin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlequin electoral division: 583 people in 225 households; 92% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynahow Beg, Ballynahow More, Dromtea, Gortmore, Gortnagree, Lisbane

Placenames

Foilmore 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.