Irrabeg
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltomy, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish Na hOiridh Beaga
- Area
- 108.7 ha
- 269 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 2,307 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Irrabeg, from 666 m² to 423,468 m² (42.35 ha, 104.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Irrabeg 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
11 Mar 2025Conditional
Full planning permission to demolish existing dwelling and rebuild a private single storey dwelling and garage, also permission to decommission existing septic tank and install a treatment unit and polishing filter
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2560169
25 Sept 2024Conditional
full planning permission to (a) renovate existing dwelling, (b) demolish old out buildings at front and rear of existing dwelling (c) to build a private single storey extension at side and rear of existing dwelling (d) also permission to decommission existing septic tank and install a treatment unit and polishing filter
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460725
14 Jul 2021Conditional
(A) DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND (B) CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION ONTO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING WHICH WILL BE SERVED BY A NEW MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21797
18 Jan 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING WAREHOUSE
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2123
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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Irrabeg.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Irrabeg.
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 5 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 Irrabeg.
- 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 Irrabeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Irrabeg · Na hOiridh Beaga
- Area
- 1,087,388 m² (108.74 ha, 268.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltomy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Lixnaw, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lixnaw electoral division: 1,134 people in 424 households; 67% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincraheen, Ballynageragh, Ballyreehan East, Ballyreehan West, Cloonsillagh, Liscullane
- Placenames
- Irrabeg 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.