Gearha

111 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gearha, from 10 m² to 230,136 m² (23.01 ha, 56.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 47 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 Gearha 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.

• 21 Dec 2023Conditional

  Planning Permission to erect 23,921.86m2 of photovoltaic panels on a ground mounted system located on the existing green area between the taxiway and the runway and all associated site works at Kerry Airport PLC. The development will comprise photovoltaic panels, 2.5 MWp with ground mounted frames with all ancillary cabling and electrical infrastructure, including a new trench for duct work at the switch room situated at the front of the main carpark; 1 no. lv/mv and transformer cabin; using all temporary ways to have access to the welfare facilities at the back of the hanger number 2.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2360448

• 6 Oct 2022Conditional

  (1) REMOVE EXISTING BAGGAGE CLAIM AREA TO PROVIDE NEW DEPARTURE GATE (2) CONSTRUCT A NEW EXTENSION TO MAIN AIRPORT BUILDING TO ALLOW FOR (1) SIT DOWN RESTAURANT AND BAR AREA (11) ARRIVAL AREAS (111) LUGGAGE RECLAIM AREA (1V) CUSTOMS, OFFICES, SECURITY AND WC'S AND (3) NEW COACH SET DOWN PARKING AREA AND (4) UPGRADE EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND TO INSTALL A TERTIARY SAND POLISHING FILTER AND (5) ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 221054

• 2 Dec 2021Conditional

  ALTER AND EXTEND THE EXISTING HOUSE TO THE FRONT, SIDE AND REAR AND TO DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND TO INSTALL A MECHANICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PUMPED UNIT WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211388

• 23 Jul 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE C/W SEPTIC TANK AND SECONDARY TREATMENT "PURAFLO" PEAT FILTERS OVER A SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21850

• 22 Jan 2020Refused

  CONSTRUCT A ROADSIDE SIGN WITH SIGN LIGHTING AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2036

• 31 Jul 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A VEHICLE AND MACHINERY PARKING SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS WITHIN THE KERRY AIRPORT SITE

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 19817

• 2 Apr 2019Conditional

  RETAIN 3 NO. TEMPORARY PORTACABINS WITHIN THE EXISTING AIRPORT COMPLEX TO FACILITATE A WAITING AREA FOR PASSENGERS AND OFFICE SPACE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATION PURPOSES. THE PERMISSION SOUGHT IS FOR A PERIOD OF SEVEN YEARS.

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 19335

• 3 Dec 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY STYLE EXTENSION ONTO THE SIDE OF THEIR EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 181183

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 Gearha.

Recorded monuments

• KE048-100 Bridge
  Description

  A road bridge (Wth 7.5m; long axis SW-NE) spanning the Brown Flesk River. It is built of ashlar limestone with random rubble parapets and has three segmental arches (span c. 9m) with cut and dressed limestone voussoirs. There are low rounded cutwaters on both sides of the piers and a projecting string course across both faces of the bridge directly above the arches. Vertical stone coping on the parapets overhangs on both river faces. The parapet ends splay outwards and terminate in square piers. A plaque on the inner face of the NW parapet records the building of the bridge in 1831. (Castleisland District Archaeological Survey) Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

• O'Connell Bridge, bridge, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch road bridge over river, dated 1831, with U-cutwaters, ashlar abutments, rubble stone parapet walls having stone-on-edge copings, inscribed plaque and ashlar piers to each end of parapets. Swept arched openings with ashlar voussoirs. Weir to downriver side. Plaque inscribed: "O'Connell Bridge built by Robert Bourns Civil Engineer".

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gearha

Area

1,869,718 m² (186.97 ha, 462.02 acres)

Civil parish

Molahiffe, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Molahiffe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Molahiffe electoral division: 1,718 people in 611 households; 79% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardcrone, Bushmount, Crag, Dromore, Farranfore, Gortshanavogh, Inchinveema, Killeagh, Meanus

Placenames

Gearha 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.