Islandboy

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Islandboy, from 137 m² to 846,054 m² (84.61 ha, 209.06 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 Islandboy 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Islandboy 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.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Knockroe Bog NHA 000366

Recorded monuments

• KE080-030 Hut site
  Description

  In rocky mountainous terrain, close to the summit of Caunoge on the E flank of a S spur. A circular, corbelled, drystone hut with an external offset at SE. Entrance at NE, amid much stone collapse. D: 2.6m. H: .9m. T: 1.3m. 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. 1298. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE080-043 Hut site
  Description

  Located adjacent to a forestry plantation on the lower S slopes of Caunoge. A circular hut of rough construction. D: 5.8m x 5.1m. 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. 1299. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE080-060 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 24.55m N-S, 26.4m E-W This well-preserved rath is located in flat pasture on the N bank of the Inny river. The enclosing bank of earth and stone varies from .95m to 2.5m in external height, from .95m to 1.35m in internal height and has an average basal width of 5.5m. It is not clear which of the three gaps in the bank marks the original entrance, though that at N appears to be secondary. An opening to a souterrain (KE080-060001-), .9m x .4m, is located in the W sector of the rath's interior. The passage is filled with debris and is no longer accessible. The OSNB refer to a Lismore (Lios Mór) and a Lisbeg (Lios Beag) in this townland (Drummod, 28-9). It seems probable that this and the following site (KE080-061----) are the monuments to which they refer. 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. 521. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE080-060001 Souterrain
  Description

  An opening to a souterrain (KE080-060001-), .9m x .4m, is located in the W sector of the rath's interior. The passage is filled with debris and is no longer accessible. The OSNB refer to a Lismore (Lios Mór) and a Lisbeg (Lios Beag) in this townland (Drummod, 28-9). It seems probable that this and the following site (KE080-061----) are the monuments to which they refer. 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. 521. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE080-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 23m N-S, 28m E-W This fine example of a bivallate rath is located in boggy pasture a short distance N of the Inny river, about 500m SW of KE080-060----. Mature trees crown both of its banks and a series of E-W cultivation ridges occupies its roughly circular interior. The inner bank averages 1.15m high internally, 3.4m high externally and is up to 5.5m in basal width. The flat-bottomed fosse averages 3.1m wide and spoil from both banks has accumulated in several places along its base. The outer bank rises 1.6m above the fosse and is 1.5m high externally. It is 4.3m wide. A shallow outer fosse, 1.6m wide and .35m deep on average, is extant only along the N sector. Intermittent drystone walling revets both faces of both banks, particularly at E and S. A causeway across the inner fosse links gaps through both banks at E; the inner gap is 2.8m wide, the outer 1.7m. The level interior is somewhat raised above surrounding ground level. 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. 522. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE080-061001 Cultivation ridges
  Description

  Mature trees crown both of its banks and a series of E-W cultivation ridges occupies its roughly circular interior. 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. 522. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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 Islandboy.

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

Name

Islandboy · An tOileán Buí

Area

3,974,517 m² (397.45 ha, 982.12 acres)

Civil parish

Dromod, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Bahaghs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bahaghs electoral division: 196 people in 76 households; 88% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coomleagh, Garrane South, Inchinascarty, Kealafreaghane East, Killeenleagh, Knockroe, Knoppoge

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Islandboy 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.