Grenagh

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grenagh, from 134 m² to 253,988 m² (25.4 ha, 62.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Grenagh 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.

• 19 Dec 2024Conditional

  (A) RETAIN EXISTING SHED A AS-CONSTRUCTED AT THE EAST SIDE OF THE PROPOSED SITE, (B) PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH APPROX. 29 LIN.M OF THE EXISTING YARD WALL AND SECURITY FENCING, (C) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW STORAGE SHED TO COVER THE EXISTING STORAGE YARD (FLOOR AREA 130 SQ.M) AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED

  Retention, 2 homes · Kerry County Council, 24450

• 6 May 2022Conditional

  TO CHANGE DESIGN OF DWELLING HOUSE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 20/7 TO A NEW REVISED DESIGN, ALL IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22475

• 9 Jan 2020Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT A NEW REPLACEMENT 2 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE ADJACENT TO EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE (B) PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS AND MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE TO CONVERT SAME INTO A DOMESTIC GARAGE BUILDING ANCILLARY TO THE NEW REPLACEMENT 2 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND (C) PERMISSION TO INSTALL A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 207

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: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343

Recorded monuments

• KE065-126 Country house
  Description

  An abandoned multi-phase house. The core of the building is a two-storey structure, rectangular in plan, with a weatherslated bow end at SW. The entrance front (SE) is of five bays with a central door hidden behind a porch. The hipped roof is partially collapsed and there are two off-centre chimneys. Three two-storey gabled projections occupy the full length of the rear. There is a two-storey double gable-ended additon at NE with pigeon-holes in one gable. The remains of a farmyard with outbuildings lies adjacent to the NE and there is a walled garden to the NW. An abandoned gatelodge is c. 1km to the NE on the main Killarney-Killorglin road. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE066-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture adjacent to a farmyard, on a SE-facing slope. This rath is indicated as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) with trees around its perimeter on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. It is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on the 1939 OS 6-inch map. The interior is now defined by an earthen bank (Wth 7.6m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.6m) NW-N and by a scarp E-NW. The NE sector is truncated by a NW-SE farm trackway and is occupied by farm buildings. The bank is disturbed by cattle and tree roots NW-N. The interior slopes down to the SE; the ground surface is uneven due to grassed-over dumped material. A modern brick-built shed is immediately inside the bank at N. A N-S field boundary extends from the bank along the S arc. Farm building occur outside the base of the scarp at SE. There is a souterrain (KE066-007001-) in the SE quadrant. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE066-007001 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (KE066-007----). The site of a souterrain is indicated in the SE quadrant of the rath on the 1939 OS 6-inch map. There are no visible remains of this souterrain. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

• Grenagh House, gate lodge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey Georgian Gothic Revival style gate lodge, built c. 1800, with battlemented parapet. Now ruinous. Gateway, built c. 1800, to east comprising pair of stone piers with wrought-iron gates. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls. Timber lintels to square-headed openings. Set adjacent to entrance to Grenagh House.

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 5 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 Grenagh.

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

Name

Grenagh

Area

1,314,227 m² (131.42 ha, 324.75 acres)

Civil parish

Aghadoe, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Lahard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lahard electoral division: 741 people in 263 households; 87% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Beaufort, Coolmagort, Dunloe Lower, Gortacollopa, Gortreagh, Killalee, Lahard, Pallis

Placenames

Grenagh 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.