# Foilmore, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killinane, barony of Iveragh, Co. Kerry.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 601,369 m² (60.14 ha, 148.6 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,299 m²
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killinane, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/killinane.md
- Barony: Iveragh
- Electoral division: Castlequin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 583 people lived in 225 households in the Castlequin electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/22166
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71329
- Centre: latitude 51.978139, longitude -10.137782 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foilmore, from 42 m² to 522,574 m² (52.26 ha, 129.13 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1225738: 522,574 m² (52.26 ha, 129.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1225738.md
- Parcel 1223844: 61,073 m² (6.11 ha, 15.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1223844.md
- Parcel 1208872: 1,888 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1208872.md
- Parcel 1209902: 710 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1209902.md
- Parcel 1202147: 48 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1202147.md
- Parcel 1197274: 42 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1197274.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- KE070-054: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE070-054----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE070-054001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE070-054002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE070-055----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## 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 Foilmore, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- 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, 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/foilmore.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/foilmore.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/foilmore.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Foilmore 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)

- Ballynahow Beg: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballynahow-beg.md
- Ballynahow More: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballynahow-more.md
- Dromtea: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromtea.md
- Gortmore: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortmore-71536.md
- Gortnagree: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortnagree.md
- Lisbane: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lisbane.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.

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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.

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