Inchinveema

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inchinveema, from 39 m² to 321,087 m² (32.11 ha, 79.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Inchinveema 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.

• 3 Dec 2025Conditional

  retain existing dwelling house & shed as constructed & completed within revised boundaries

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2561117

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Inchinveema.

Recorded monuments

• KE048-098 Bridge
  Description

  A humpback road bridge (Wth 8m; long axis N-S) spanning the River Maine. It is built of coursed rubble sandstone and shale with cut limestone detail and has three eliptical arches (spans from N 6.6m, 9.1m, 6.9m) with dressed limestone voussoirs. There are low pointed cutwaters of limestone ashlar on both sides of the piers. An eliptical dry arch (span 2m) occurs on each bank of the river. There is a decorative niche in each abuttment and a recessed circular medallion in each spandrel. The parapets have concrete coping. A plaque on the inner face of the E parapet records the building of the bridge in 1818. This bridge is also known locally as 'Marshall's Bridge'. (Castleisland District Archaeological Survey) Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

• Maine Bridge, bridge, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arch hump back road bridge over River Maine, dated 1814, with arches of varying heights and form. Limestone ashlar V-cutwaters having ashlar roundels over. Rubble abutments and parapets with inscribed plaque to east parapet.

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 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

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

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

Name

Inchinveema · Inse an Bhíoma

Area

788,689 m² (78.87 ha, 194.89 acres)

Civil parish

Molahiffe, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Molahiffe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Molahiffe electoral division: 1,718 people in 611 households; 79% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bushmount, Castlefarm, Cloonlara, Gearha, Meanus, Urrohogal

Placenames

Inchinveema 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.