# Istalea Lower, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kenmare, barony of Glanarought, Co. Kerry.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 611,653 m² (61.17 ha, 151.14 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 26,551 m² (2.66 ha, 6.56 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kenmare, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/kenmare.md
- Barony: Glanarought
- Electoral division: Kenmare, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Kenmare electoral division: 3,520 people in 1,321 households; 57% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23051
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71683
- Centre: latitude 51.914949, longitude -9.56169 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Istalea Lower, from 3,165 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres) to 161,368 m² (16.14 ha, 39.87 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1157034: 161,368 m² (16.14 ha, 39.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1157034.md
- Parcel 1185024: 153,446 m² (15.34 ha, 37.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1185024.md
- Parcel 1185104: 119,428 m² (11.94 ha, 29.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1185104.md
- Parcel 1185105: 103,319 m² (10.33 ha, 25.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1185105.md
- Parcel 1184053: 41,135 m² (4.11 ha, 10.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1184053.md
- Parcel 1186558: 11,967 m² (1.2 ha, 2.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1186558.md
- Parcel 1193005: 6,870 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1193005.md
- Parcel 1160392: 6,318 m² (0.63 ha, 1.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1160392.md
- Parcel 1222095: 3,765 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1222095.md
- Parcel 1220325: 3,165 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1220325.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Istalea Lower in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

No planning application touches the townland of Istalea Lower in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- KE084-021: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE084-021----. In pasture, on a rise, on the W side of the valley of the Cummeenboy stream. A circular area (37.5m E-W; 37m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.9m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.55m) E-NE and by a scarp NE-E. An external fosse (Wth 1.2m; D 0.4m) is evident NE-N. Cattle-breaks are evident at NE and at SW. The external face of the bank has been cut back N-NE giving an almost vertical external face. The interior, which is raised above the surrounding ground level, is heavily overgrown and slopes gently down to the NE. There is a souterrain (KE084-021001-) in the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011
- KE084-021001: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE084-021001-. In a rath (KE084-021----). According to the landowner, an underground chamber exists within the interior of the rath. The entrance to this possible souterrain was closed many years ago. There are no visible remains of it. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Istalea Lower.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/istalea-lower.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/istalea-lower.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/istalea-lower.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Istalea Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Cummeenboy: https://everytownland.com/kerry/cummeenboy.md
- Gortnaboul Lower: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortnaboul-lower.md
- Gowlane: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gowlane-71584.md
- Inchimore: https://everytownland.com/kerry/inchimore-71652.md
- Istalea Upper: https://everytownland.com/kerry/istalea-upper.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/istalea-lower
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