Inch-Moor
Townland in the civil parish of Galey, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Inse Mhór
- Area
- 149.8 ha
- 370 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 33,568 m² (3.36 ha, 8.29 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inch-Moor, from 2,079 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 480,264 m² (48.03 ha, 118.68 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 Inch-Moor 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
No planning application touches the townland of Inch-Moor 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
- KE010-041 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diameter 32.4m N-S, 24m E-W This univallate rath is situated immediately S of the Galey River. The site consists of a sub-circular area enclosed by a bank, though to the N through W to SW no bank is evident, just a rise above the surrounding land. The enclosing earthen bank is, on average, 6m wide at the base and rises to a maximum of 1.5m externally and 1m above the interior. An exterior fosse is to be noted N through E to S; it is best preserved to the S where it is U shaped, 1.4m wide and .6m below the height of the surrounding land. Numerous breaks exist in the bank and there is a 13m wide gap to the SE. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 410. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Inch-Moor.
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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_177 (ZIP).
- 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 Inch-Moor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Inch-Moor · An Inse Mhór
- Area
- 1,498,118 m² (149.81 ha, 370.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Galey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Electoral division
- Gunsborough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gunsborough electoral division: 369 people in 144 households; 93% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Derra West, Drommurrin, Garryard, Gortacrossane, Inch East, Inch West, Shrone West
- Placenames
- Inch-Moor 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.