Gloragh

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gloragh, from 9,407 m² (0.94 ha, 2.32 acres) to 2,302,562 m² (230.26 ha, 568.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Gloragh 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 Gloragh 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

• KE090-006 Enclosure
  Description

  On rough mountainous terrain on the S slopes of Knocknagantee, on the E bank of a tributary of the Sneem river. A rough stone-built wall KE090-006----, .7m wide, encloses a subcircular area 4m x 3.3m. A scatter of stone abuts the base of the wall externally. A small rectangular enclosure (KE090-006001-) abuts the site at N and measures 2.1m x 3.8m internally. 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. 1281. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE090-006001 Enclosure
  Description

  On rough mountainous terrain on the S slopes of Knocknagantee, on the E bank of a tributary of the Sneem river. A rough stone-built wall KE090-006----, .7m wide, encloses a subcircular area 4m x 3.3m. A scatter of stone abuts the base of the wall externally. A small rectangular enclosure (KE090-006001-) abuts the site at N and measures 2.1m x 3.8m internally. 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. 1281. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE090-042 Hut site
  Description

  High on the SW slopes of Knocknagantee in open mountain terrain. A cluster of four drystone structures. (1) (KE090-042----) A sheepfold overlies a subcircular hut with a blocked entrance passage at W. A collapsed annex, 1.9m x 1.8m, abuts its SE side. (2) (KE090-042001-) N of the hut, a roughly constructed rectangular enclosure. D: 1.8m x 1.6m. T: .8m. (3) (KE090-042002-) A square hut, its NW wall constructed of block-like uprights. An entrance at W, defined by a pair of uprights set .9m apart. D: 2.9m x 2.4m. T: 1m. (4) (KE090-042003-) Nearby at W, a poorly defined subrectangular enclosure. D: 2.9m x 1.8m. 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. 1282. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE090-042001 Enclosure
  Description

  High on the SW slopes of Knocknagantee in open mountain terrain. A cluster of four drystone structures. (2) (KE090-042001-) N of the hut, a roughly constructed rectangular enclosure. D: 1.8m x 1.6m. T: .8m. 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. 1282. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE090-042002 Hut site
  Description

  High on the SW slopes of Knocknagantee in open mountain terrain. A cluster of four drystone structures. (3) (KE090-042002-) A square hut, its NW wall constructed of block-like uprights. An entrance at W, defined by a pair of uprights set .9m apart. D: 2.9m x 2.4m. T: 1m. 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. 1282. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE090-042003 Enclosure
  Description

  High on the SW slopes of Knocknagantee in open mountain terrain. A cluster of four drystone structures. (4) (KE090-042003-) Nearby at W, a poorly defined subrectangular enclosure. D: 2.9m x 1.8m. 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. 1282. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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).

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

Name

Gloragh · An Ghlórach

Area

3,965,861 m² (396.59 ha, 979.99 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcrohane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron South

Electoral division

Sneem, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonaghlin, Coomavoher, Derrynagree, Dromtine, Dughile And Coomavanniha

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Gloragh on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.