Keeas

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keeas, from 486 m² to 532,384 m² (53.24 ha, 131.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Keeas 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 Keeas 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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE072-011 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. 21.05m N-S, 22.4m E-W This caher is located in pasture on the S facing slope of Beenbane, and affords broad views of the Bridia and Cloon valleys to E and S. The enclosing wall consists of a rubble core faced internally and externally with drystone masonry. It is poorly preserved at NE, but elsewhere survives up to 3.6m high and 3.8m wide. It is 1.3m high internally, and much collapse abuts its inner face at N. A 1.1m wide gap at SE seems to represent the original entrance. A gap at WNW, 1.5m wide, appears to be of recent origin. The rectangular outline of a hut (KE072-011001-) abuts the inner face of the enclosing feature at W. It measures 3m x 1.8m internally and features a 1.1m wide entrance at E. Just to SE is a pile of field clearance material. There is locally reputed to be an inaccessible souterrain at the site. 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. 596. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE072-011001 Hut site
  Description

  The rectangular outline of a hut (KE072-011001-) abuts the inner face of the enclosing feature at W. It measures 3m x 1.8m internally and features a 1.1m wide entrance at E. Just to SE is a pile of field clearance material. 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. 596. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE072-011002 Souterrain
  Description

  There is locally reputed to be an inaccessible souterrain at the site. 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. 596. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE072-020 Souterrain
  Description

  This souterrain, not marked on the OS maps, is located at the edge of a level terrace in land that otherwise slopes down fairly steeply towards the Caragh river at S. It was blocked up in the 1960s, but is still remembered locally as a drystone-built structure with 'steps leading down into a passage'. The field in which it is located is known located as 'Gort na hÓn' (Ó Cíobháin 1978, 61). 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. 889. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE072-021 Rock art
  Description

  This large boulder is located in a wooded area of the Bridia valley, on the W bank of a stream which flows to the Caragh river. It measures 2.1m x 1.9m x 1.3m high and its decorated surface slopes upwards to NW. A number of deep fissures traverse the surface, which carries a large array of carvings. Among these are four motifs formed of cupmarks with radial grooves enclosed by one to four open-ended keyhole-shaped grooves; in one instance the outer groove is closed. The remainder of the motifs comprise at least nineteen simple cupmarks, eleven cup-and-rings, ten cup-and-two rings and two cup-and-four rings. The rings are both annular and penannular. Several straight and curved grooves also occur among these markings. 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. 349. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013 In rough pasture field, on a gentle SSW-facing slope. Not located. According to O’Sullivan & Sheehan (1996, 102) ‘this large boulder is located in a wooded area of the Bridia valley, on the W bank of a stream which flows to the Caragh river.’ Some moss-covered stones were seen, although no large boulder as described by O’Sullivan & Sheehan (1996, 102) was noted: ‘It measures 2.1m x 1.9m x 1.3m high and its decorated surface slopes upwards to NW. A number of deep fissures traverse the surface, which carries a large array of carvings. Among these are four motifs formed of cupmarks with radial grooves enclosed by one to four open-ended keyhole-shaped grooves; in one instance the outer groove is closed. The remainder of the motifs comprise at least nineteen simple cupmarks, eleven cup-and-rings, ten cup-and-two rings and two cup-and-four rings. The rings are both annular and penannular. Several straight and curved grooves also occur among these markings.’ Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 5 July 2017

• KE072-028 Souterrain
  Description

  Souterrain excavated by Julianna O'Donoghue under licence No. 10E0318, the results of which were summarised as; 'Following the discovery of a souterrain in Keeas, Co. Kerry, a survey and minor excavation was undertaken at the site on behalf of the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government. The souterrain is c. 18m in length. It contains four passages and one chamber. It is predominantly a drystone structure but displays earth- and rock-cut features in places. It also features two air vents, steps and a drop-hole. Following the natural contours, the souterrain slopes from north to south. The site was discovered when Passage 1, the uppermost passage, was disturbed by a mechanical excavator. The landowner found Passage 1 in an unroofed state, completely backfilled with small stones. He subsequently excavated the passage, shovelling most of the backfill out by hand and casting it to either side of the passage and revealing the entrance to Passage 2. Excavation of the backfill material was completed by the survey team in order to expose the extent of the passage. The passage measured 4.9m in length and an average of 0.7m in width. The back wall comprised vertically cut bedrock and was flanked by sidewalls curving slightly to the south-south-east. The entrance to Passage 2 marks the beginning of the roofed section of the souterrain. An accumulation of soil resulting from the land clearance at the entrance to this passage was not removed as this section of the structure was unstable. Thus it could not be determined whether the original entrance to the passage was sloped, stepped or a drop-hole feature. Seven lintels cap this passage. It is 1.45m in height and 0.9m in width. Passage 3 is accessed through an opening close to the southern end of the western wall. An extended constriction is located at the conjunction of the passages. It is orientated on a north–south axis and measures 4.2m in length including the constriction. Eleven lintels provide roofing for this passage. At the end of this passage there is an expanded terminal extending in a westward direction facilitating a drop-hole into Passage 4. An air vent is set into the back wall directly over the drop-hole. Passage 4 and the chamber constitute the best-preserved section of the souterrain as well as the most skilfully constructed elements. However, these proved difficult to access and survey as during periods of heavy rainfall they completely fill with water, which slowly dissipates making the lower section of the souterrain frequently inaccessible. Passage 4 is capped with seven lintels. An air vent occurs on the back wall of the passage just below roof level. The chamber is located at a distance of 2.2m from the drop-hole on the eastern wall. A gap in the drystone wall of 0.5m provides an entrance to the chamber which is cut out of the bedrock though the very top of the ceiling is earth-cut. The chamber is irregular in plan. It measures 1.6m in length by 1.2m in width' (O'Donoghue 2013, 123-4). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 October 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Keeas, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Keeas · An Cias

Area

1,779,236 m² (177.92 ha, 439.66 acres)

Civil parish

Knockane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron North

Electoral division

Curraghbeg, the unit of the census

Census 2022

187 people lived in 68 households in the Curraghbeg electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boheeshil, Coss, Garrane, Glanmakee, Gortmaloon West, Shronahiree More

Placenames

Keeas 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.