Glannalappa Middle

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glannalappa Middle, from 2,288 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 241,831 m² (24.18 ha, 59.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Glannalappa Middle 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.

• 14 Aug 2026N/a

  RED III Moyvane Solar Farm Limited intend to apply for permission for a 10-year planning permission for development at this site at Tarmon East, Leitrim East, Leitrim Middle, Aughrim, Glannalappa West, Glannalappa Middle, Ahalahana and Moyvane North, Co. Kerry. This development will consist of the construction of a solar photovoltaic (‘PV’) farm and associated ancillary development on ca. 272-hectare (‘ha’) site consisting of: I. Solar PV panels laid out in arrays on ground-mounted frames, covering an area of ca. 823,310m2; II. Solar PV panels laid out in arrays supported by ballast footing covering an area of ca. 8,948m2; III. String inverters attached to selected solar panel arrays; IV. 27No. transformer units (ca. 6.1m x 2.4m); V. 33kV underground collector circuit and communications cabling within private lands and within the L1012, L1015, L1014, L6023 and L1021 public roads; VI. Pole-mounted security cameras; VII. Perimeter security fencing (2m high) and security gates; VIII. Upgrade of 8No. existing permanent Site entrances on the L1015, L1012, L1014 and L6023 public roads; IX. Development of 4No. new permanent Site entrances on the L1015, L1021 and L6023 public roads; X. 3No. temporary main construction compounds and 1No. temporary staging area; XI. The installation of 20No. new box culverts across drainage ditches, 10No. new box culverts across watercourses and the upgrade of 2No. existing box culverts across watercourses; XII. 2No. Horizontal Directional Drilling (‘HDD’) crossings (i) under the L1021 local road and (ii) under Ahalahana River to facilitate 33kV underground collector circuit cabling to the future 110kV looped-in substation; XIII. 4No. storage containers (ca. 2.6m high x 3m wide x 12.2m long); XIV. Ca. 11ha of Habitat Management Lands; and, XV. Drainage infrastructure, internal access tracks, landscaping, reinstatement works and all associated ancillary development. A 40-year operational life from the date of full commissioning of the entire solar farm is being sought for all works (other than temporary works specified above), and the subsequent decommissioning. A Natura Impact Statement will accompany the planning application.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660763

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 Glannalappa Middle.

Recorded monuments

• KE006-014 Moated site
  Description

  This site is marked on the 1914-15 OS map as a rectangular enclosure, but permission to inspect and survey the site was refused. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 972. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Glannalappa Middle, about 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Glannalappa Middle · Gleann na Leapa Láir

Area

763,935 m² (76.39 ha, 188.77 acres)

Civil parish

Murher, and its townlands

Barony

Iraghticonnor

Electoral division

Leitrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

560 people lived in 193 households in the Leitrim electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughrim, Glannalappa East, Glannalappa West, Gortdromasillahy, Toberatooreen

Placenames

Glannalappa Middle 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.