Headfort

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Headfort, from 173 m² to 209,866 m² (20.99 ha, 51.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Headfort 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.

• 21 Jul 2026N/a

  to Construct a Dwellinghouse served by a septic tank and polishing filter

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660688

• 28 Nov 2023Conditional

  Construction of a part two-storey, part single storey dwelling house and detached garage with carport and connection to on-site wastewater treatment system together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360372

• 24 Sept 2019Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED GARAGE, INSTALL A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19991

• 18 Dec 2018Conditional

  AN EXISTING 25M TELECOMMUNICATIONS MONOPOLE CARRYING THREE RADIO AERIALS FOR USE BY THE EMERGENCY SERVICES (GARDA, AMBULANCE AND FIRE BRIGADE) PREVIOUSLY GRANTED BY AN BORD PLEANALA UNDER REFERENCE NO. PL 08.228598, TOGETHER WITH TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND EQUIPMENT AND FENCING

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 181247

• 2 Nov 2018N/a

  THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXISTING 25M TELECOMMUNICATIONS MONOPLE CARRYING THREE RADIO AERIALS FOR USE BY THE EMERGANCY SERVICES (GARDA, AMBULANCE AND FIRE BRIGADE) PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PERMISSION BY AN BORD PLEANALA UNDER REFERENCE NO. PL 08.228598, TOGETHER WITH TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT AND FENCING.

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 181068

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

Recorded monuments

• KE067-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a flat-topped knoll with commanding views over the surrounding countryside and S to Killeen Mountain. A circular area (36m N-S; 34m E-W) is defined by a scarp increasing in height from NW (H 0.3m) to S (H 2.3m) and then decreasing in height to the SW (H 0.3m). An overgrown linear N-S field boundary, topped with trees, truncates the SW-NW arc. Traces of a lip (Wth 2.5m; H 0.1m) along the E arc may be the remains of an enclosing element. The possible entrance (Wth 3m) is at N. The slightly uneven interior is in pasture and there is a N-S hollow in the S quadrant. The flanks of the scarp appear to have been cleared mechanically and show signs of intermittent damage NE-SE. The underlying earth is exposed in a few places. This is probably the rath recorded in the 1840s as being in the N end of the townland and known locally as 'Lissnaguan Fort' (OSNB, Aghadoe, no. 2, 32). It was also noted that according to tradition, there was 'a battle fought' at this rath and 'after the defeat of the Irish, the heads of their Commanders were spiked on this Fort' (ibid.). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Headfort, about 1 in 5 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Headfort · Lios na gCeann

Area

1,560,074 m² (156.01 ha, 385.5 acres)

Civil parish

Aghadoe, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Headfort, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,047 people lived in 353 households in the Headfort electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cools, Drom, Dromcarban, Knockanes, Rossacroo, Rossacroobeg, Shronedarragh

Placenames

Headfort 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.