Garreiny

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garreiny, from 54 m² to 816,955 m² (81.7 ha, 201.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Garreiny 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 Garreiny 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE089-064 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. 21.3m N-S, 22m E-W This severely modified caher, known locally as 'Caher-abhan', is located on a low ridge just S of the Oweveen river, a tributary of the Cummeragh. The site has been adapted for use as a sheep dip and pound by cementing over its interior, constructing several walls and rebuilding most of its internal wall-face. The original enclosing element survives best at S, where it measures 2.8m wide and 1.65m high. Here it is faced externally with flat boulder-like slabs set in rough horizontal courses. Much collapse abuts the external base of the wall. A gap at NNW, 1.5m wide, may represent the location of the original entrance. A large slab, 1.45m x .8m x .3m, lies outside it, and it was suggested by O'Connell that it originally served as an entrance lintel (KAS). O'Connell also noted two 'guard-rooms' in the bank, close to the entrance, but these are no longer apparent. At NW a number of sheepfolds and an old field boundary abut the site externally, and a second field boundary extends from the site at SE. A 'cave' was discovered in the centre of the site when it was being cemented over (local information). No apparent surface trace of this possible souterrain (KE089-064001-) survives. 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. 587. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE089-064001 Souterrain
  Description

  A 'cave' was discovered in the centre of the site when it was being cemented over (local information). No apparent surface trace of this possible souterrain (KE089-064001-) survives. 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. 587. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE090-017 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. 16.3m N-S, 14.7m E-W This small circular caher is located in boggy pasture directly S of the Oweveen river, which flows W from Lough Iskanamacteery. A large circular hut, modified for use as a double sheepfold, occupies its centre. The enclosing element of the site is no longer extant along its S sector, and a modern sheepfold interrupts its probable course at SE. A 1.5m wide eroded gap at WSW may represent the original entrance. The enclosing wall is elsewhere faced internally and externally with large boulder-like slabs, set in rough horizontal courses, which enclose a rubble core. The upper surface of the wall is topped with a peaty sod. It has an average external height of 1.1m, an average internal height of .75m, and is 2.5m wide. The hut (KE090-017001-) occupies almost the entire interior of the site and is internally divided by a modern wall. It has an internal diameter of 6.4m 5.9m, and its well-preserved wall of faced drystone masonry is 1.45m high and up to 2m wide. Its E facing entrance, marked by an upright slab on its S side, is 1.1m 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. 588. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE090-017001 Hut site
  Description

  The hut (KE090-017001-) occupies almost the entire interior of the site and is internally divided by a modern wall. It has an internal diameter of 6.4m 5.9m, and its well-preserved wall of faced drystone masonry is 1.45m high and up to 2m wide. Its E facing entrance, marked by an upright slab on its S side, is 1.1m 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. 588. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE090-032 Hut site
  Description

  Occupying a low raised area, c. 550m x 400m, at the base of the N side of an E-W ridge. An extensive stretch of low-lying boggy pasture surrounds the N side of the site and extends N to loughs Namona and Cloonaghlin. A complex of drystone-built structures and some animal shelters set within an old field system. Three huts are located W of the townland boundary. (1) (KE090-032----) Partly rebuilt, a square hut of rough construction with a sod-covered inner wall-face. D: 1.9m x 1.6m. T: 1.8m. (2) (KE090-033----) A circular structure, probably a hut, underlying a collapsed sheepfold. Overall diameter: 4.6m x 4m. (3) (KE090-035----) Subcircular structure of rough construction. Overall diameter: 3.4m x 3.1m. (4) (KE090-035----) The northernmost structure lies E of the townland boundary and consists of two adjoining, overgrown enclosures of rough construction. D: 5.8m x 5.5m and 3.4m x 3.2m. (5) (KE090-036----) A short distance S of the latter site, a partially buried circular hut with a basal course of large boulders and natural outcrop. D: 2.4m x 2.1m. (6) A well-built circular drystone hut, E of the latter. Two small annexes abut the NW and SW. D: 4.3m x 4.1m. H: 1.1m. T: 1m. (7) (KE090-032002-) A sod-covered, drystone corbelled hut whose interior is filled with stone collapse to the level of the top of its wall. Overall diameter: 4.9m x 4.8m. External height: 1m. Width of top of wall: .8m. (8) (KE090-036003-) A sheepfold built on the site of an earlier structure, E of the latter. 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. 1275. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE090-032001 Hut site
  Description

  In rough rush-covered, boggy pasture, on the E bank of a small lake on a N-facing slope. The remains of a circular hut site (diam. 1.5m) defined by a partially collapsed drystone wall (T 0.8m; H 1.1m). The interior is level. There is an entrance (Wth 0.45m) at E. A hut site (KE090-032----) adjoins this hut site at NW and there is another hut site (KE090-033----) c. 7m to the NE. 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

• KE090-033 Hut site
  Description

  For descriptive account see O'Sullivan and Sheehan (1996, 403, no. 1275, (2)). 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

• KE090-037 Hut site
  Description

  In boggy pasture immediately S of the effluence of the Oweveen river from Lough Iskanamacteery. The collapsed remains of a drystone circular hut with an entrance at W. A U-shaped annex abuts the site at W. D: 3.3m x 2.5m. H: 1.3m. 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. 1276. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE090-043 Enclosure
  Description

  This ruined stone enclosure is located in level, boggy pasture on the N side of a ridge which overlooks loughs Namona and Cloonaghlin. Not marked on the OS maps, the area enclosed measures 7.7m N-S x 9.2m E-W and the sod-covered enclosing wall survives only one course high. It is 1.9m wide and its external facing is formed of boulder-like slabs. Two sheepfolds interrupt the circuit of the enclosure at SW and NW. That at NW is U-shaped in outline and appears to overlie an earlier structure. The SW example appears to follow the outline of an earlier circular structure. 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. 749. 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 Garreiny.

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

At the centre of the townland of Garreiny, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Garreiny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Garreiny · Na Gearreidhní

Area

3,215,076 m² (321.51 ha, 794.46 acres)

Civil parish

Dromod, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Mastergeehy, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Cappanagroun, Cloghvoola, Derrineden, Maghygreenane, Oughtiv

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Garreiny 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.