Kill

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kill, from 81,823 m² (8.18 ha, 20.22 acres) to 118,921 m² (11.89 ha, 29.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Kill 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 Kill 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: Akeragh, Banna and Barrow Harbour SAC 000332
• Special Protection Area: Tralee Bay Complex SPA 004188

Recorded monuments

• KE020-001001 Burial ground
  Description

  Marked on the 1841-42 OS map as 'Old Graveyard', this site does not appear on the later edition, In 1987 a souterrain containing the skeleton of a woman was discovered in this region and excavation was undertaken by Mary Cahill (NMI). She discovered that the souterrain (KE020-001002-) was sub-rectangular in plan and was constructed of small stones capped by large slabs. The fully extended skeleton of the woman was orientated E-W, the head facing W. A small spread of charcoal was noted near the upper right-hand side of the skeleton, which was recently radiocarbon dated to the 10th century. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 875. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE020-001002 Souterrain
  Description

  A souterrain was discovered in the above townland in 1987, when Mary Cahill (NMI) examined it and did a rescue excavation. She found that the souterrain chamber was sub-rectangular in plan and in good condition, and measured 2.75m x 1.75m x 1.32m. A fragment of a quern stone had been used to form the lintel over the passage entrance. A fully extended young female skeleton which was laid lengthways on the floor of the souterrain was orientated E-W, the head lying to the W. (Excavations, 1988) The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1129. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE020-001003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  This large sub-circular enclosure is cut into two unequal parts by OS 6-inch sheets 14 and 20, and would appear to cover an area of over 29 acres. According to local tradition, a church (KE020-077----) once lay within this enclosure. In the enclosure is an 'old graveyard' which is marked on the 1841-42 OS 6-inch map for Sheet 20, but does not appear on the later edition of 1897. A souterrain containing a skeleton was discovered and excavated in 1987 (Cahill, 1988). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 836. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE020-001004 Burial
  Description

  Marked on the 1841-42 OS map as 'Old Graveyard', this site does not appear on the later edition, In 1987 a souterrain containing the skeleton of a woman was discovered in this region and excavation was undertaken by Mary Cahill (NMI). She discovered that the souterrain (KE020-001002-) was sub-rectangular in plan and was constructed of small stones capped by large slabs. The fully extended skeleton of the woman was orientated E-W, the head facing W. A small spread of charcoal was noted near the upper right-hand side of the skeleton, which was recently radiocarbon dated to the 10th century. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 875. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kill, 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 low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_49 (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 Kill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Kill · An Chill

Area

118,902 m² (11.89 ha, 29.38 acres)

Civil parish

Ardfert, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Banna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

793 people lived in 289 households in the Banna electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacquin Lower, Ballymacquin Upper

Placenames

Kill 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.