# Hillgrove, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Caher, barony of Iveragh, Co. Kerry.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 405,612 m² (40.56 ha, 100.23 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,665 m² (0.97 ha, 2.39 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Caher, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/caher.md
- Barony: Iveragh
- Electoral division: Caher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,061 people lived in 819 households in the Caher electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/22101
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71628
- Centre: latitude 51.945137, longitude -10.206271 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hillgrove, from 1,485 m² to 171,071 m² (17.11 ha, 42.27 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1222815: 171,071 m² (17.11 ha, 42.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1222815.md
- Parcel 1208905: 117,025 m² (11.7 ha, 28.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1208905.md
- Parcel 1152140: 101,392 m² (10.14 ha, 25.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1152140.md
- Parcel 1224251: 9,665 m² (0.97 ha, 2.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1224251.md
- Parcel 4250009: 2,852 m² (0.29 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4250009.md
- Parcel 1193088: 2,133 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1193088.md
- Parcel 5049122: 1,485 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5049122.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Hillgrove in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

No planning application touches the townland of Hillgrove in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Valencia River Estuary, site code 001383

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- KE079-049: Children's burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE079-049----. Children's Burial Ground: This wedge-shaped mound or platform, no longer in use as a burial ground by the late nineteenth century, is located on the lower NE slopes of Bentee mountain. Rising up to 1m above surrounding ground level, it is 17.5m long and broadens in width from 7.5m at E to 12.5m at W, where it is bounded by a modern field boundary. Two prominent slabs stand 1m apart at the N perimeter of the site and may mark an entrance. The stony surface of the platform features a large number of thin, uninscribed, upright grave-markers. These average .3m high. Henry noted a fragment of a quern-stone among the graves (1957, 74), but this is no longer apparent. 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. 1018. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013
- KE079-050: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE079-050----. In upland pasture in a terraced field on the E slopes of Bentee. On the upper terrace, which measures 20m long and 1.2m above a second terrace, is a drystone circular hut. The floor of the hut is 1m below the level of the surrounding terrace and measures 4.1m in diameter internally. The lintelled opening, .8m high x .7m wide, to a drystone-built souterrain (KE079-050001-) is located in the S face of the terrace. Access is gained to a long curving passage that averages .95m high and .7m wide; its well-built slightly corbelled walls are roofed by a series of slabs and feature a basal row of intermittent uprights and boulders. The passage extends N for 2.7m, where it narrows slightly and curves neatly to E to extend for a further 4.2m. It curves again to N for 3.5m, and close to its NE angle is an inaccessible creep way, beyond which an infilled passage extends E for at least 2m. 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. 1293. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013
- KE079-050001: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE079-050001-. For descriptive account see O'Sullivan and Sheehan (1996, 404, no. 1293). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011
- KE079-121: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE079-121----. This site is located on the lower NE slopes of Bentee mountain and commands a fine view of the estuary of the Ferta river to N. An almost oval-shaped area, measuring 6.2m N-S x 7.2m E-W, is enclosed by a fosse and by a poorly preserved external bank. The overall diameter of the site averages 12m. The bank is best preserved at W, where it measures 1.6m wide and rises .25m externally. The fosse is flat-bottomed, varies in width from 1.3m to 2.5m, and averages .5m below the interior of the monument. The site's interior slopes steeply downwards to N. There is no apparent entrance to the site. 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. 441. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013
- KE079-122: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE079-122----. A short distance E of KE079-121---- is a second well-preserved ring-barrow. It consists of a subcircular area, 5.2m in diameter E-W, which is enclosed by a fosse, measuring 1.2m wide and up to .7m deep, and by an external bank. The bank is not preserved on the uphill, S side of the site. It rises at N to a maximum external height of .75m, where it features a possible causewayed entrance, 1.6m wide. The overall diameter of the monument averages 12.25m. 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. 442. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Hillgrove, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 Hillgrove.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/hillgrove.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/hillgrove.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/hillgrove.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Hillgrove with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Cahersiveen: https://everytownland.com/kerry/cahersiveen.md
- Carhan Lower: https://everytownland.com/kerry/carhan-lower.md
- Carhan Upper: https://everytownland.com/kerry/carhan-upper.md
- Inchiclogh: https://everytownland.com/kerry/inchiclogh.md
- Knockaunrory: https://everytownland.com/kerry/knockaunrory.md

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.

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Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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