Islandmore
Islandmore is a townland in the civil parish of Killaha, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry.
- Area
- 50.9 ha
- 126 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 6,194 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Islandmore, from 721 m² to 126,940 m² (12.69 ha, 31.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Islandmore 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 Dec 2025Conditional
Planning Permission to 1) Demolish front canopy 2) Construct an entrance front porch 3) Carry out internal alterations 4) New plaster elevational change in place of existing stone façade 5) Replacement of existing windows to an existing dwelling house
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561163
19 Apr 2024Conditional
Retention Permission to A) Retain existing extensions as constructed, B) Retain elevational changes to existing dwelling as constructed and C) Retain existing dwelling house all within revised site boundaries.
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460227
17 Dec 2019Conditional
DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING AND REMOVE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK,
Permission · Kerry County Council, 191290
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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Islandmore.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Islandmore.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Islandmore, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_308 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Islandmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Islandmore
- Area
- 508,732 m² (50.87 ha, 125.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killaha, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Brewsterfield, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 805 people lived in 281 households in the Brewsterfield electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annagh More, Carrigaveema, Coolcurtoga, Drominaharee, Foiladuane, Garries, Glen, Inch
- Placenames
- Islandmore 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.