Kilcolgan Upper

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.

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.

• 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.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_253 (ZIP).

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.

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.

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

Census 2022

Tarbert electoral division: 757 people in 319 households; 82% of households own their home; 16% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

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. 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.