Kilgobnet

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilgobnet, from 1 m² to 239,294 m² (23.93 ha, 59.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Kilgobnet 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.

• 26 Aug 2025Conditional

  retention permission to retain domestic garage/storage shed as constructed at Kilgobnet, Beaufort, Co.Kerry.

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560743

• 4 Mar 2024N/a

  Retention permission to retain shed as constructed for use as a gymnasium at Kilgobnet, Beaufort, Co Kerry (1 building)

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2460122

• 24 Jan 2024N/a

  Retention permission to retain shed as constructed for use as a gymnasium at Kilgobnet, Beaufort, Co Kerry (1 building)

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2460031

• 21 Sept 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED GARAGE, INSTALL A NEW SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATON AERA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration · Kerry County Council, 189101

• 14 Jul 2023Refused

  (A) RETAIN SHED AS CONSTRUCTED FOR USE OF AS A GYMNASIUM

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23806

• 5 Oct 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING AND SEPARATE GARAGE, AND THE PROVISION OF A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211131

• 15 Oct 2020Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF DWELLING HOUSE (B) PERMISSION TO BUILD EXTENSION ONTO EXISTING SUNROOM TO THE REAR AND MODIFY ALTER AND EXTEND THE EXISTING SUNROOM INCORPORATING SAME (C) DEMOLISH THE FRONT PORCH AND PROPOSED NEW PORCH ENTRANCE (D) PERMISSION TO RETAIN THE EXISTING SHED/STORE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20977

• 24 Sept 2020N/a

  (A) CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF DWELLING HOUSE (B) PERMISSION TO BUILD EXTENSION ONTO EXISTING SUNROOM TO THE REAR AND MODIFY ALTER AND EXTEND THE EXISTING SUNROOM INCORPORATING SAME (C) DEMOLISH THE FRONT PORCH AND CONSTRUCT PROPOSED NEW PORCH ENTRANCE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 20881

• 21 Jan 2020Conditional

  TO CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2033

• 10 Dec 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 191247

• 9 Feb 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED GARAGE, INSTALL A NEW SEPTIC TANK , PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18101

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 Kilgobnet.

Recorded monuments

• KE065-037 Standing stone
  Description

  This possible standing stone is not marked on the OS maps. It stood in gently sloping pastureland, about 200m E of Tullynascally stream, and was removed in the late 1970s along with another standing stone (KE065-039----) which was located c. 150m further E (local information). However, a third stone, located a short distance N of these, remains in situ (KE065-038----). 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. 241. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE065-038 Standing stone
  Description

  This standing stone, not marked on the OS maps, is located on gently sloping land which affords broad views to E. It is a limestone block with a rather angular, pear-shaped, ground plan of five facets, the longest two measuring 1.2m and 1.1m; NW-SE. It tapers irregularly towards a rounded top, and is 1.68m high. 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. 192. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE065-039 Standing stone
  Description

  Not marked on the OS maps, this possible standing stone stood 150m E of KE065-037---- and was removed in the late 1970s. 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. 242. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE065-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 30.6m N-S, c. 31m E-W This site is shown as a circular univallate enclosure on the first edition of the OS map, while on the second edition map it is indicated only by a curving field boundary. Its present condition is virtually the same as that shown on the later map. The E sector of the enclosing bank is preserved beneath an overgrown field boundary. It averages 1.5m high above external ground level, 1.6m wide at base and .65m high internally. The W sector is levelled, but a faint scarp indicates its former outline. The site was named 'Lissgubnet' on the OS Fair Plan. It is located on a slight rise SW of Kilgobnet early ecclesiastical site (KE065-042----), just S of Kilgobnet village. Portion of an ogham stone (KE065-109001-) was discovered before 1869 in a souterrain (KE065-109----) in a rath close to Kilgobnet village (Brash 1879, 238). It measured 3 foot 4 inches (1m) x 1 foot 3 inches (.38m) at top, and narrowed to 1 foot 1 inch (.32m) x 4 inches (.1m) at base. The stone was subsequently used as a door lintel, but when last recorded, in 1910, it was lying in a manure heap in the village (Macalister 1945, 207). The inscription, along two opposing angles and across the top of the stone, reads: ANNVENI TEGG[ . . . Spalling had obscured the remainder of the inscription. While the precise location of the rath from which this stone derived is unknown, it appears likely to be this example. 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. 524. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE065-042001 Church
  Description

  Kilgobnet Church/Cill Ghobnait. This site is located a short distance SE of Kilgobnet village, midway between Macgillycuddy's Reeks and the Laune river. A pattern was formerly held here on St Gobnet's Day, February 11th (OSNB Knockane, 155), and the village is reputed in local tradition to be the original home of the Lughnasa assembly now held in Killorglin and known as Puck Fair (MacNeill 1962, 299). The site is located in a large field, marked 'Fair Green' on the first edition of the OS map, and it formerly comprised a poorly preserved church, two circular 'cells' and a possible ogham stone. Of these features only the ruined church now remains. Church: The ivy-clad remains of this rectangular structure, which is probably Medieval in date, measure10.7m E-W x 5.1m N-S internally. Large amounts of stone collapse occur in its interior and outside its E gable. The roughly coursed, rubble-built walls, 1.1m wide and surviving to an average external height of 1.8m, are set in a loose sandy mortar. The remains of a doorway, c. .9m wide and with only the base of the W jamb preserved, are located midway along the S wall; the doorway was described by Harris as square-headed (1939, 178). In the E gable is the basal section of a rectangular light with splayed ingoings. This is 1m wide internally and .5m high; in 1841 its external face was described as formed 'of two stones rudely cut' (OSL), but these are no longer visible. The OSL also recorded two 'quadrangular windows . . . rudely formed of hammered stones' in the W and S walls, but these are not preserved. A section of coursed masonry abuts the inner face of the E end-wall and may represent the remains of an altar. Circular Cells: The remains of two circular 'cells' were visible outside the E gable of the church until the 1950s (CKFC), but have since become obscured by stone collapse. One of these may be the structure referred to by Brash and Harris respectively as a 'penitential station' and 'St Gobnet's cloghaun' {1879, 288; 1939, 178). A cross-incised stone (KE065-042008-), originally associated with a nearby holy well (KE065-042002-), was located in one of these cells in 1952 (CKFC). Ogham Stone (KE065-042006-): A fragment with several scores preserved, reading HATA, was recorded lying on the wall of one of the cells in 1869 (Brash 1879, 288). This may be the same stone that was noted at the site in 1938 by Harris (1939, 178). Macalister throws doubt on both identifications, however, and suggests that the stone may have been a fragment of a grooved paving slab (1945, 207). The above description is derived from O'Sullivan, A. and Sheehan, J. (compilers) 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University press. (1996), no. 952. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 12 June 2013

• KE065-042002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  No apparent trace remains of the holy well recorded by CKFC (1952) about 90m E of Kilgobnet medieval church (KE065-042001-), adjacent to a ceallúnach burial ground (KE065-043----). Cooke noted that a heap of stones, surmounted by a slab with an incised cross, marked the site of the well (1906, 12). The cross was formed by a vertical shaft transversed by six unevenly spaced grooves. Though not depicted in Cookes' illustration of it (ibid. P1.4, Fig. 3), Crawford records the letters IHS on this slab (1912, 237). The well was filled in sometime prior to 1938 (Harris 1939, 178), and the slab appears to have been moved to a 'circular cell' at St Gobnet's church nearby, where it cannot now be located. Rounds were formerly made at the well on February 11th, St Gobnet's Day, when a fair was also held in the nearby village. 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. 1075. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE065-042003 Hut site
  Description

  For descriptive account see O'Sullivan and Sheehan (1996, 295, no. 952, Circular Cells, one of '...two circular 'cells'…). 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

• KE065-042004 Cross-slab
  Description

  No apparent trace remains of the holy well KE065-042002- recorded by CKFC (1952) about 90m E of Kilgobnet medieval church (KE065-042001-), adjacent to a ceallúnach burial ground (KE065-043----). Cooke noted that a heap of stones, surmounted by a slab with an incised cross (KE065-042004-), marked the site of the well (1906, 12). The cross was formed by a vertical shaft transversed by six unevenly spaced grooves. Though not depicted in Cookes' illustration of it (ibid. P1.4, Fig. 3), Crawford records the letters IHS on this slab (1912, 237). The well was filled in sometime prior to 1938 (Harris 1939, 178), and the slab appears to have been moved to a 'circular cell' at St Gobnet's church nearby, where it cannot now be located. Rounds were formerly made at the well on February 11th, St Gobnet's Day, when a fair was also held in the nearby village. 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. 1075. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE065-042006 Decorated stone
  Description

  A fragment with several scores preserved, reading HATA, was recorded lying on the wall of one of the cells in 1869 (Brash 1879, 288). This may be the same stone that was noted at the site in 1938 by Harris (1939, 178). Macalister throws doubt on both identifications, however, and suggests that the stone may have been a fragment of a grooved paving slab (1945, 207). The above description is derived from O'Sullivan, A. and Sheehan, J. (compilers) 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University press. (1996), no. 952. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 12 June 2013

• KE065-042007 Hut site
  Description

  For descriptive account see O'Sullivan and Sheehan (1996, 295, no. 952, Circular Cells, one of '...two circular 'cells'…). 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

• KE065-042008 Cross-slab
  Description

  One of two stones (see KE065-042004-) with crosses carved on them which were recorded by Harris (1939, 178) from information given to her by an old man whom she met at Kilgobnet in July 1938. He told her that the two stones had leant against the E wall of Kilgobnet church (KE065-042001-) (ibid.). The present whereabouts of both stones is not known. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE065-043 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Killeen Burial Ground: No visible trace survives of this site, which was located a short distance ENE of Kilgobnet Church (KE065-042001-). It was depicted on the second edition of the OS map as an irregularly shaped area, located at the S side of a pond and delimited at W by a field boundary. The site was levelled in recent years during land reclamation operations. It was situated adjacent to a holy well (KE065-042002-) and is described in the IFC Schools' Collection as a burial ground for unbaptised children. 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. 1048. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE065-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The site of the subcircular enclosure marked at this location on the second edition of the OS map is now occupied by a farmyard, constructed around 1980. No visible trace of the monument survives. Known locally as a 'fort', it was located a short distance W of the Weaver's stream. 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. 679. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kilgobnet, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_115 (ZIP).

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

Name

Kilgobnet · Cill Ghobnait

Area

1,106,470 m² (110.65 ha, 273.41 acres)

Civil parish

Knockane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron North

Electoral division

Kilgobnet, the unit of the census

Census 2022

984 people lived in 325 households in the Kilgobnet electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardlaghas, Brookhill, Cappagh, Cooleanig, Shanacloon

Placenames

Kilgobnet 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.