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

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

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,397,876 m² (139.79 ha, 345.42 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 18,367 m² (1.84 ha, 4.54 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): 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.
- County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23052
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71684
- Centre: latitude 51.931482, longitude -9.568681 (WGS 84)

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

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Istalea Upper, from 1,491 m² to 918,952 m² (91.9 ha, 227.08 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1233396: 918,952 m² (91.9 ha, 227.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1233396.md
- Parcel 1185025: 149,164 m² (14.92 ha, 36.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1185025.md
- Parcel 1157135: 104,845 m² (10.48 ha, 25.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1157135.md
- Parcel 1225807: 49,489 m² (4.95 ha, 12.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1225807.md
- Parcel 1240923: 46,789 m² (4.68 ha, 11.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1240923.md
- Parcel 1220324: 33,541 m² (3.35 ha, 8.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1220324.md
- Parcel 1158117: 29,611 m² (2.96 ha, 7.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1158117.md
- Parcel 1157140: 18,367 m² (1.84 ha, 4.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1157140.md
- Parcel 1218890: 12,846 m² (1.28 ha, 3.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1218890.md
- Parcel 1212768: 7,021 m² (0.7 ha, 1.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1212768.md
- Parcel 1181959: 5,490 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1181959.md
- Parcel 1214190: 4,070 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1214190.md
- Parcel 1211958: 2,534 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1211958.md
- Parcel 1152169: 2,355 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1152169.md
- Parcel 1231474: 1,491 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1231474.md

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

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.

## 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 Upper in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC, site code 000365, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000365
- Special Protection Area: Killarney National Park SPA, site code 004038, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004038
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment, site code 000365

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

- KE084-008001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE084-008001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE084-008002-. 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

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 Upper.

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

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 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-upper.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/istalea-upper.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/istalea-upper.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

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: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md

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

- Gortnaboul Lower: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortnaboul-lower.md
- Gortnaboul Upper: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortnaboul-upper.md
- Gowlane: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gowlane-71584.md
- Istalea Lower: https://everytownland.com/kerry/istalea-lower.md
- Ullauns: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ullauns.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.

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