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

Townland in the civil parish of Killemlagh, barony of Iveragh, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Gleann Iarthach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,056,941 m² (105.69 ha, 261.18 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,973 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killemlagh, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/killemlagh.md
- Barony: Iveragh
- Electoral division: St. Finan's, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 175 people lived in 61 households in the St. Finan's electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 46% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md
- Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/22398
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71405
- Centre: latitude 51.847823, longitude -10.387501 (WGS 84)

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

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glanearagh, from 39 m² to 349,947 m² (34.99 ha, 86.47 acres); 3 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1222607: 349,947 m² (34.99 ha, 86.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1222607.md
- Parcel 1235700: 234,544 m² (23.45 ha, 57.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1235700.md
- Parcel 1213639: 103,608 m² (10.36 ha, 25.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1213639.md
- Parcel 1198131: 94,513 m² (9.45 ha, 23.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1198131.md
- Parcel 1235698: 45,819 m² (4.58 ha, 11.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1235698.md
- Parcel 1235697: 45,030 m² (4.5 ha, 11.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1235697.md
- Parcel 1209922: 41,268 m² (4.13 ha, 10.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1209922.md
- Parcel 1239536: 35,860 m² (3.59 ha, 8.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1239536.md
- Parcel 1142638: 33,272 m² (3.33 ha, 8.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1142638.md
- Parcel 1202057: 17,334 m² (1.73 ha, 4.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1202057.md
- Parcel 1213641: 15,901 m² (1.59 ha, 3.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1213641.md
- Parcel 1231599: 9,853 m² (0.99 ha, 2.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1231599.md
- Parcel 1235701: 5,599 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1235701.md
- Parcel 1235189: 4,461 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1235189.md
- Parcel 1177853: 4,127 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1177853.md
- Parcel 1164899: 3,973 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1164899.md
- Parcel 1213638: 3,249 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1213638.md
- Parcel 1233522: 1,598 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1233522.md
- Parcel 1213642: 1,157 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1213642.md
- Parcel 1236629: 1,090 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1236629.md
- Parcel 1213640: 435 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1213640.md
- Parcel 1209743: 427 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1209743.md
- Parcel 1197978: 409 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1197978.md
- Parcel 1160440: 293 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1160440.md
- Parcel 1235702: 254 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1235702.md
- Parcel 1235699: 247 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1235699.md
- Parcel 1183996: 204 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1183996.md
- Parcel 3846570: 94 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3846570.md
- Parcel 1164898: 91 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1164898.md
- Parcel 1155454: 63 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1155454.md
- Parcel 1222043: 39 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1222043.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Glanearagh 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)

3 applications, newest first.

- 3 Mar 2025, Kerry County Council 2560137: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. (A) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN AND PERMISSION TO COMPLETE PARTLY CONSTRUCTED EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE DWELLING HOUSE, CONSISTING OF SAUNA, HOT TUB ROOM, TOILET AND PLANT ROOM ALL ANCILLARY TO THE USE OF THE DWELLING HOUSE, (B) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES INCLUDING ADDITION OF STONE FAÇADE AROUND THE GEOTHERMAL PLANT ROOM, BOUNDARY WALL ALONG THE FRONT AND NORTH SIDES OF THE SITE, AND (C) PERMISSION TO ERECT STONE BOUNDARY WALL ON THE EAST AND SOUTH SIDES OF THE SITE TO MATCH THE EXISTING BOUNDARY WALL ON THE NORTH SIDE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560137/0
- 12 Feb 2025, Kerry County Council 2560080: N/a. Retention. Invalid:(a) retention permission to retain and complete partly constructed extension to the south side of the dwelling house, consisting of sauna, hot tub room, toilet and plant room all ancillary to the use of the dwelling house, minor elevational changes including addition of stone façade around the geothermal plant room, boundary wall along the front and north sides of the site, and (b) permission to erect stone boundary wall on the east and south sides of the site to match the existing boundary wall on the north side. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560080/0
- 10 Oct 2019, Kerry County Council 191049: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CHANGE USE OF THE PROPERTY FROM FOSTER HOME WITH EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES TO A DWELLING HOUSE (AS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REG NO 93/1303). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/191049/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Protection Area: Puffin Island SPA, site code 004003, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004003
- Special Protection Area: Iveragh Peninsula SPA, site code 004154, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004154
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Puffin Sound-Horse Island Cliffs, site code 001373

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

- KE087-090: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE087-090----. In rough hill grazing close to the edge of a high W-facing cliff with views of Valencia Island and Sceilg Mhichíl. The remains of a rectangular hut site (3.8m NE-SW; 2.1m NW-SE) defined by the vertical face of a cliff at SE and elsewhere by the horizontally-laid lower courses of a partially collapsed, drystone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.7m). Rubble is scattered in the interior. A damaged entrance at the NE end leads into the hut site, and also leads NE into to a largely collapsed annexe (1.9m NE-SW; 0.8m NW-SE), the NE end of which is covered by a slab. 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
- KE096-022: Promontory fort - coastal, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE096-022----. Possible promontory fort described in 2003 as follows; ‘A level flat triangular headland flanked by sheer cliffs on three sides measures 90m wide at the neck and 90m long. It is cut off from the mainland by a 2.5m wide 1m deep fosse, flanked by low earthen banks on either side. While these features are too unsubstantial to be the remains of a promontory fort, the existence of a small circular earthen enclosure, barely visible in the sward, lying close to the southern cliff edge in the interior point to the earlier occupation of the headland. The surrounding area is one of cleared and drained coarse pasture. The sea is not accessible from within. A large headland immediately to the south has further evidence of hut sites on the promontory’ (Casey 2003, 26, no. D).
- KE096-023: Promontory fort - coastal, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE096-023----. Possible promontory fort described in 2003 as follows; ‘A large broad west-facing headland measuring 280m long and 180m wide at the widest point is cut off by an earthen bank and fosse. These are similar in appearance to many such boundaries that criss-cross the adjacent pastureland and bog, and may not be an indication of antiquity. The interior of the headland contains several foundations of collapsed and grassed-over hut sites, as well as traces of earlier cultivation and field divisions. The most prominent of these stands close to the tip of the promontory near an area of outcrop. Slight traces of levelled bank or wall can be seen from the air running across the headland at the point some 100m west of the visible bank. These features indicate the possibility of earlier occupation of the headland. Similar huts are visible close to the site, including the adjacent Puffin Island’ (Casey 2003, 27, no. E).

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 Glanearagh.

## 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 Glanearagh, 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 high, 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 Glanearagh.
- 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/glanearagh.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/glanearagh.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/glanearagh.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Glanearagh 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)

- Moyrisk: https://everytownland.com/kerry/moyrisk.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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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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