Kilcock Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Lisselton, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry
- Area
- 98.2 ha
- 243 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 9,187 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcock Lower, from 792 m² to 227,641 m² (22.76 ha, 56.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilcock Lower 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
8 Aug 2018Conditional
A SHED COMPRISING A SLATTED CUBICLE AREA AND STRAW AND HAY STORAGE AREA, ALSO TO APPLY FOR PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SHED ATTACHED TO THIS EXISTING SLATTED SHED COMPLETE WITH CUBICLES FOR SUCKLER COWS, SLATTED SLURRY TANK AND SLURRY DUCT, A STRAW BEDDED AREA FOR CALVING COWS AN UNROOFED MANURE STORE, A MEAL BIN FOR RATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Retention · Kerry County Council, 18779
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilcock Lower.
Recorded monuments
- KE005-028 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diameter 27.6m N-S, 26.4m E-W Situated immediately S of Lynch's house on pastureland, this univallate rath is enclosed by a bank of earth and stone morphology. The external side of the bank NE through W to SW has been stone faced by Mr Lynch's father to protect the fort from the cattle. The external height of the bank varies from lm-1.5m and on average the internal height measures .8m. The bank has been broken by cattle and no definite entrance can be noted. According to Mr Lynch, underground passages (KE005-028001-) were found immediately NW of this site in his father's time. However, they are not evident today. On the interior side of the N sector is a small mound (KE005-028002-), 1.8m x 2.4m externally. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 286. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE005-028001 Souterrain
Description
Situated immediately S of Lynch's house on pastureland, univallate rath KE005-028---- is enclosed by a bank of earth and stone morphology. According to Mr Lynch, underground passages (KE005-028001-) were found immediately NW of this site in his father's time. However, they are not evident today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 286. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE005-028002 Mound
Description
Situated immediately S of Lynch's house on pastureland, univallate rath KE005-028---- is enclosed by a bank of earth and stone morphology. On the interior side of the N sector is a small mound (KE005-028002-), 1.8m x 2.4m externally. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 286. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilcock Lower.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilcock Lower.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Kilcock Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcock Lower
- Area
- 981,666 m² (98.17 ha, 242.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lisselton, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Electoral division
- Lisselton, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lisselton electoral division: 348 people in 128 households; 95% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Farranastack, Guhard North, Kilcock Upper, Kilgarvan, Larha, Tullahennel North, Tullahennel South
- Placenames
- Kilcock Lower 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.