Kilcolgan Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Kilnaughtin, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry; in Irish Cill Cholgan Uachtarach
- Area
- 101.8 ha
- 252 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 2,270 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcolgan Upper, from 86 m² to 323,529 m² (32.35 ha, 79.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Kilcolgan 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Jun 2026Conditional
insert of 2 no. velux windows onto he front roof of my house
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2690
19 Nov 2025Conditional
To erect the following agricultural structures, (A) Calf Shed, (B) An extension to an existing cubicle house, (C) A Silage Base, on his farm yard
Permission · Kerry County Council, 25274
20 Mar 2025Conditional
Permission to Construct a Dwellinghouse and Domestic Garage served by an Effluent Treatment Tank and polishing filter at Kilcolgan Upper, Tarbert, Co. Kerry
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2560198
11 Aug 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND SCANDCEL POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21920
18 Jun 2020Conditional
(1) RETAIN THE DEMOLITION OF DWELLING ON SITE, (2) RETAIN AND COMPLETE EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS (3) RETAIN DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED ON SITE, AND (4) PLANNING PERMISSION TO DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL AND CONSTRUCT NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20525
6 Mar 2019Conditional
ERECT A DOMESTIC GARAGE ON HIS SITE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19210
12 Jan 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SUNROOM EXTENSION AT MY HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 1715
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 Kilcolgan Upper.
Recorded monuments
- KE003-015 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on rising pastureland, the view from this site is extensive in all directions. Though this site was completely inaccessible, the survey was able to determine that it was a univallate rath. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 185. 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 Kilcolgan 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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilcolgan Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcolgan Upper · Cill Cholgan Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,018,399 m² (101.84 ha, 251.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnaughtin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Electoral division
- Tarbert, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carhoonakilla, Carhoonakineely, Glancullare North, Kilcolgan Lower, Pulleen
- Placenames
- Kilcolgan 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. 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.