# Fussa, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilgarvan, barony of Glanarought, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Fosadh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 964,568 m² (96.46 ha, 238.35 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,392 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilgarvan, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/kilgarvan.md - Barony: Glanarought - Electoral division: Kilgarvan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 788 people lived in 310 households in the Kilgarvan electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23079 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71336 - Centre: latitude 51.902032, longitude -9.464606 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fussa, from 108 m² to 238,748 m² (23.87 ha, 59 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1188189: 238,748 m² (23.87 ha, 59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1188189.md - Parcel 1246331: 157,083 m² (15.71 ha, 38.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1246331.md - Parcel 1230214: 154,554 m² (15.46 ha, 38.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1230214.md - Parcel 1153643: 70,356 m² (7.04 ha, 17.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1153643.md - Parcel 1218693: 53,070 m² (5.31 ha, 13.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1218693.md - Parcel 1138421: 47,463 m² (4.75 ha, 11.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1138421.md - Parcel 1208785: 31,695 m² (3.17 ha, 7.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1208785.md - Parcel 1147288: 30,674 m² (3.07 ha, 7.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1147288.md - Parcel 1228525: 27,401 m² (2.74 ha, 6.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1228525.md - Parcel 1192951: 26,791 m² (2.68 ha, 6.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1192951.md - Parcel 1225868: 24,890 m² (2.49 ha, 6.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1225868.md - Parcel 1197176: 14,977 m² (1.5 ha, 3.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1197176.md - Parcel 1152210: 13,351 m² (1.34 ha, 3.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1152210.md - Parcel 1186497: 12,835 m² (1.28 ha, 3.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1186497.md - Parcel 1155447: 12,596 m² (1.26 ha, 3.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1155447.md - Parcel 1246840: 5,371 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1246840.md - Parcel 1139275: 4,964 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1139275.md - Parcel 1243621: 4,730 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1243621.md - Parcel 1245797: 4,372 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1245797.md - Parcel 1162028: 3,983 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1162028.md - Parcel 1157477: 3,787 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1157477.md - Parcel 1165098: 3,672 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1165098.md - Parcel 2818186: 3,112 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2818186.md - Parcel 1151221: 3,025 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1151221.md - Parcel 1245361: 2,749 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1245361.md - Parcel 1139785: 2,489 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1139785.md - Parcel 1138941: 2,425 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1138941.md - Parcel 5301041: 2,145 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5301041.md - Parcel 1238304: 1,900 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1238304.md - Parcel 1218831: 1,893 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1218831.md - Parcel 4704842: 1,876 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4704842.md - Parcel 1200431: 1,821 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1200431.md - Parcel 1242994: 1,223 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1242994.md - Parcel 1212794: 1,160 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1212794.md - Parcel 1151610: 903 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1151610.md - Parcel 4704814: 803 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4704814.md - Parcel 1151614: 571 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1151614.md - Parcel 1210546: 567 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1210546.md - Parcel 1242310: 533 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1242310.md - Parcel 1151617: 342 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1151617.md - Parcel 5119871: 296 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5119871.md - Parcel 5722606: 289 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5722606.md - Parcel 1158255: 113 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1158255.md - Parcel 1218692: 108 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1218692.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Fussa 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 9 Feb 2023, Kerry County Council 23120: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. (A) RETAIN ELEVATION CHANGES MADE TO THE HOUSE, (B) RETAIN THE REVISED DRIVEWAY LAYOUT AND (C) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/23120/0 - 21 Jun 2022, Kerry County Council 22652: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. RETAIN THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, TIMBER SHED AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES AS LOCATED WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/22652/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Kilgarvan Ice House SAC, site code 000364, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000364 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilgarvan Ice House, site code 000364 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE094-068: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE094-068----. In level pasture, on the valley floor to the N of the Roughty River. This standing stone (1.33m x 0.64m; H 1.5m) is subrectangular in plan and section and is orientated NE-SW. It leans slightly to the NW and its N corner has been damaged. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011 - KE094-069: Bridge, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE094-069----. Road bridge (original Wth 5.8m; long axis E-W) spanning the Owbeg River. Built of random rubble. Single segmental arch with roughly shaped voussoirs spans river. Two segmental dry arches, with roughly shaped voussoirs, on floodplain to the W. Two pointed cut-waters on upstream (N) side of piers rise to height of arches. The bridge has recently been extended on the downstream side. The surviving parapet wall has vertical stone coping. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011 - KE094-070: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE094-070----. In a graveyard (KE094-07001-). Built of random limestone ashlar. Rectangular nave (long axis E-W) lit by pairs of narrow pointed lights with cut-stone surrounds; chancel at E end lit by large pointed window consisting of five tall pointed lights separated by slender mullions. Lean-to vestry adjoins the N walls of the chancel and the nave. Three-storey tower at the W end with corner buttresses; crenellated parapet surmounted by corner pinnacles. Gabled entrance porch adjoins the S wall of nave towards its W end. The walls of the church display a slight basal batter. Part of cruciform church indicated on 1846 OS 6-inch map may be incorporated into the present structure which has a mid-19th-century appearance. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011 - KE094-070001: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE094-070001-. On a S-facing slope overlooking the valley of the Roughty River. A roughly rectangular area (c. 100m E-W; c. 60m N-S) bounded by a recently constructed stone wall (T 0.55m; H 1.5m). The earliest headstones noted date to the mid-19th century. One vaulted tomb, built of random rubble, lies immediately to the E of the Church of Ireland church (KE094-070----) which is in the W half of the graveyard. The graveyard is in occasional use. The graveyard and church grounds have recently been landscaped. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011 - KE094-077: Kiln - lime, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE094-077----. In a small quarry on the N side of a trackway leading NE from Ardtully House (KE094-071---). A large, well-built, mid/late 19th-century limekiln with façade (S-facing) and side walls of coursed ashlar. Central segmental-arched recess (H c. 2.4m; Wth c. 2.5m; D c. 3.5m) with semi-circular ope at the rear. A path to the E climbs a steep slope to give access to the top of the kiln. The circular brick-lined funnel (diam. 1.8m), with iron rim, splays outwards towards the bottom. Adjacent to the kiln at SE is a free-standing, gable-ended, rectangular building (ext. 10m N-S; 6m E-W), now roofless. Built of random rubble, it has a narrow door ope (Wth 1.4m) off-centre in its N wall and a second wider one (Wth 2.1m) towards the S end of its W wall. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011 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) - Michael J. Quill Centre, church/chapel, 1805–1825, Regional interest, registry number 21309402, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KE®no=21309402. Freestanding double-height Gothic Revival style former Church of Ireland church, built c. 1815, with three-bay nave, singe-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to south elevation, single-bay double-height lower chancel to east gable end, two-bay single-storey lean-to sacristy projection to north-east corner and single-bay three-stage tower to west gable end. Nave and chancel extensively reconstructed, c. 1865, with tower retaining original aspect. Renovated in late twentieth century to accommodate use as museum. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, gable limestone coping, moulded springers and replacement gutters on limestone corbel table. Battlemented parapet and corner pinnacles to tower. Random rubble limestone walls with ribbon repointing. Rubble stone walls to upper section of tower having corner piers. Single or paired lancets to nave and chancel with limestone ashlar surrounds, relieving arches, iron lattice glazing panels and stained glass panels. Lancet east window. Pointed arch to door opening with replacement door. Freestanding cut-stone Celtic Cross style grave marker, c. 1820, to site. Gateway, built c. 1865, to south comprising pair of stone piers with wrought-iron gates. ## 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 Fussa, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Fussa. - 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/fussa.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/fussa.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/fussa.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Fussa 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) - Ardtully: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ardtully.md - Gortnaboul: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortnaboul.md - Kilpadder: https://everytownland.com/kerry/kilpadder.md - Lounaghan: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lounaghan.md - Slaght: https://everytownland.com/kerry/slaght.md - Slaheny: https://everytownland.com/kerry/slaheny.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/fussa - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/fussa