Istalea Upper

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Istalea Upper, from 1,491 m² to 918,952 m² (91.9 ha, 227.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Istalea Upper 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 Istalea Upper 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Special Protection Area: Killarney National Park SPA 004038
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE084-008001 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough boggy pasture, on the SW-facing slope of Knockanaguish Hill. A circular area (14.8m N-S; 14m E-W) defined by a collapsed, grass-covered, drystone wall (T 1m). The wall consists of an inner and outer row of contiguous upright slabs with a fill of smaller stones in between. The wall is best preserved NNW-NNE and is in a more collapsed state (int. H 0.3m) NNE-NNW. There is an entrance (Wth 1.5m), defined by an upright stone (H 0.95m; 1.15m x 0.5m), at E. The S portion of the interior is raised (H 0.6m) and the N portion is cut (D 0.5m) into the upslope to compensate for the hillslope. However, the interior retains a gentle slope down to the S. Relict field boundaries (KE084-008002-) radiate from the wall externally at S, at N and immediately SE of the entrance stone. 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

• KE084-008002 Field boundary
  Description

  In rough boggy pasture, on the SW-facing slope of Knockanaguish Hill. Three field walls (T 0.8m; H 0.6m), which protrude above the surface of the bog, radiate from the external N, S and SE arcs of an enclosure (KE084-008001-). The N-S field wall that abuts the N arc of the enclosure, extends upslope to the N for a distance of 30m. The N-S wall that abuts the S arc, runs S of the enclosure for a distance of 12m. The NW-SE wall (L 35m) extends to the SE from immediately outside the entrance to the enclosure at SE. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Istalea Upper, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Istalea Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Istalea Upper

Area

1,397,876 m² (139.79 ha, 345.42 acres)

Civil parish

Kenmare, and its townlands

Barony

Glanarought

Electoral division

Kenmare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,520 people lived in 1,321 households in the Kenmare electoral division. 57% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gortnaboul Lower, Gortnaboul Upper, Gowlane, Istalea Lower, Ullauns

Placenames

Istalea Upper 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.