Gneeves
Townland in the civil parish of Brosna, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry; in Irish Na Gníomha
- Area
- 346.3 ha
- 856 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 6,249 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gneeves, from 549 m² to 984,715 m² (98.47 ha, 243.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Gneeves 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Nov 2023Conditional
To construct a dwelling house, garage, on-site wastewater treatment system consisting of a mechanical aeration unit, intermittent filter & soil polishing filter, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360378
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
- KE032-001 Fulacht fia
Description
Fulacht fia described in 1987 by the 'Castleisland District Archaeological Survey' as 'large roughly horse-shoe shaped mound (dims. 15.4m N-S x 13.4m E-W) of burnt earth and burnt shattered red stone is clearly visible in this field of wet pasture. The opening in the mound lies to the east. The trough area is marked by a concentration of rush growth. This is clearly the site of a fulacht fiadh' (SMR File). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 April 2022
- KE032-002 Burnt spread
Description
Burnt spread described in 1987 by the 'Castleisland District Archaeological Survey' as 'burnt black earth and burnt red stone' which had been discovered during the digging of a dyke. The material is still clearly visible in the eastern side of the drain' (SMR File). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 April 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gneeves.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gneeves.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Gneeves with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Gneeves · Na Gníomha
- Area
- 3,463,211 m² (346.32 ha, 855.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Brosna, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Gneeves, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gneeves electoral division: 375 people in 149 households; 89% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Glantaunluskaha, Knocknadarriv, Knoppoge, Lackbrooder, Reacaslagh, Tooreennablauha
- Placenames
- Gneeves 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.