Killagurteen
Townland in the civil parish of Dromod, barony of Iveragh, Co. Kerry
- Area
- 137.1 ha
- 339 acres
- Land parcels
- 78
- registered freehold, median 3,607 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killagurteen, from 14 m² to 256,423 m² (25.64 ha, 63.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Killagurteen 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
26 Jun 2026N/a
the construction of a 2 bed dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, storage shed, deep bore well, percolation area, entrance and ancillary site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 26104
22 Jul 2019Conditional
(A)CONSTRUCT A LOUNGE EXTENSION(B) REMOVE CONCRETE TILE FROM EXISTING DWELLING AND FINISH THE EXISTING DWELLING ROOFS AND PROPOSED NEW EXTENSION ROOF IN NATURAL SLATE AND (C)FIT 3 NO. FLUSH TYPE VELUX ROOF LIGHTS TO MAIN ROOF FRONT AND 1 NO. VELUX TO REAR ROOF
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19772
12 Jun 2019Conditional
(1) PERMISSION TO INSTALL VELUX ROOF LIGHTS TO SLATED ROOF FACE AND (2) PERMISSION TO DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19608
15 Feb 2017Conditional
ERECT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17116
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365
Recorded monuments
- KE098-023 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Internal diam. 19m N-S, 18.5m E-W This heavily overgrown caher is located in a thicket on a gentle S lacing slope which overlooks Lough Currane to SW. The site consists of a well-preserved enclosing wall featuring a mural chamber, and a circular hut and a possible souterrain occur in its interior. The wall, faced externally and internally, encloses a rubble core and is 2.3m wide. It is preserved up to 1.5m high externally, 1.3m high internally and features a low step along its inner face. This step or terrace is .3m wide and varies in height from .3m, along the NW sector, to .7m at S. At NNW two slabs protrude from the inner wall-face, .77m and .92m above the step, and these may have served to facilitate access to the wall-top. A partially collapsed stone-faced entrance is located at SW; it is .55m wide at its outer edge and measures .65m wide internally. This is a rectangular mural chamber at NW, where the width of the wall is increased somewhat to accommodate it. This has a slightly splayed lintelled entrance, partially blocked, in the external wall-face of the caher. The entrance is 1.45m high and is trabeate in form, narrowing to .45m wide at its top. Upright slabs and slabs set on edge line the base of the mural chamber, above which its walls are regularly coursedand slightly corbelled. It is roofed with large lintels, and measures 1.75m x 1.25m and 1.54m in height. The collapsed remains of a substantial circular hut (KE098-023001-), 3.8m in internal diameter, are located in the SW quadrant of the caher's interior. Stone facing enclosing a rubble core is visible from N to SE, and the entrance is obscured by collapse. A band of stone collapse extends E for 4m from the external face of the hut. Also located in the SW quadrant is a shallow L-shaped trench, which varies in width from .7m to 1.75m. It contains a fill of stone collapse, but short stretches of coursed walling are visible at its sides. This trench probably represents the souterrrain (KE098-023002-) noted at this site by O'Connell (1939a, 28). 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. 598. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013
- KE098-023001 Hut site
Description
The collapsed remains of a substantial circular hut (KE098-023001-), 3.8m in internal diameter, are located in the SW quadrant of the caher's interior. Stone facing enclosing a rubble core is visible from N to SE, and the entrance is obscured by collapse. A band of stone collapse extends E for 4m from the external face of the hut. 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. 598. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013
- KE098-023002 Souterrain
Description
Also located in the SW quadrant is a shallow L-shaped trench, which varies in width from .7m to 1.75m. It contains a fill of stone collapse, but short stretches of coursed walling are visible at its sides. This trench probably represents the souterrrain (KE098-023002-) noted at this site by O'Connell (1939a, 28). 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. 598. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013
- KE098-024 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Internal diam. 15m N-S, 14.3m E-W This severely denuded caher is situated on top of a low rise, just N of a small river which flows into Lough Currane at SW. The foundations of the enclosing wall comprise rock outcrops and large boulders, above which are stretches of rough drystone coursing. Externally the wall varies from .5m to 2.5m high. Its overgrown inner face survives .9m high at N, but elsewhere it does not rise appreciably above the level of the interior. There is no discernible entrance to the site. Loose stones are scattered throughout its interior, but do not form any recognisable pattern. 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. 599. 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 Killagurteen.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killagurteen.
- 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
- Killagurteen, Waterville6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Killagurteen
- Area
- 1,370,598 m² (137.06 ha, 338.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dromod, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iveragh
- Electoral division
- Loughcurrane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Loughcurrane electoral division: 343 people in 138 households; 85% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 40% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cahersavane, Commanes, Dromkeare, Glanbeg, Lislonane
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Killagurteen 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.