Freemount

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Freemount, from 160 m² to 217,994 m² (21.8 ha, 53.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Freemount 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.

• 13 Sept 2023Conditional

  TO CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23995

• 17 Apr 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE SERVED BY MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18353

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 Freemount.

Recorded monuments

• KE068-003 Church
  Description

  In a graveyard (KE068-003001-). Indicated as a rectangular 'Church in ruins' (c. 15m E-W; c. 8m N-S) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. There are no visible remains of this church. It is unclear if overgrown mounds at the E and W side of the graveyard are the remnants of the church. In the 1940s it was noted that the 'cemetery wall [was] built with stones from the old chapel about 1810. Two heaps of stones still remain.' (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry) Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE068-003001 Graveyard
  Description

  In undulating pasture, with views SW to Macgillycuddy's Reeks. A roughly square graveyard (c. 40m N-S; c. 40m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall, with a road skirting the N and E sides. Inscribed headstones date from 1833 to the early 20th century; uninscribed grave-markers were noted near the outer limits at E, S and W. Overgrown mounds occur at E and at W. The site of a church (KE068-003001-) is within the graveyard. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE068-081 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In level marshy grazing, with views SW to the Paps of Dana. A roughly horseshoe-shaped mound (c. 22m E-W; c. 17m N-S; H 1.8m) of burnt material with the opening (7m N-S; c. 7m E-W) facing W, is largely obscured by gorse and briars. An open drain skirts the mound along the S and W sides, and has revealed burnt material along both faces of the drain to a depth of 0.8m. Spoil, containing clay and some burnt material from the drain, is placed haphazardly along the S and W sides of the mound and along the outer bank of the drain. Spoil heaps and machine damage may have distorted the size of the mound. It is largely inaccessible due to dense overgrowth. This is probably the fulacht fia recorded in the 1940s in Mrs D. Murphy's land (listed under the adjoining townland of Knockacappul), and which was described as circular and '20 feet [6.1m] in diameter and 2 feet [0.61m] high' (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Freemount.

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

Name

Freemount

Area

751,212 m² (75.12 ha, 185.63 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Rathmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmore electoral division: 1,941 people in 735 households; 67% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Banard, Gortanahaneboy East, Knockacappul, Stagmount

Placenames

Freemount 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.