Killegy Lower

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killegy Lower, from 18 m² to 125,645 m² (12.56 ha, 31.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Killegy Lower 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.

• 17 Oct 2024Conditional

  (1) RETAIN ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING DWELING, AND (2) RETAIN EXENSIONS AS CONSTRUCTED TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, ALL IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24397

• 30 Nov 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALL A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND CARRY OUT ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211365

• 19 Mar 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT (1) AN EASY FEED CATTLE SHED FOR OVER WINTERING COWS COMPLETE WITH EASY FEED BARRIERS, UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANKS, CUBICLE BEDS, CALVING GATE AND DRY BED LOOSE HOUSING PENS (2) CONSTRUCT A CONCRETE SILAGE BASE WITH ASSOCIATED CONCRETE WORK APRON (3) CONSTRUCT A CONCRETE MANURE PIT WITH PERIMETER CONCRETE WALLS AND CONCRETE WORK APRON, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY CONCRETE AND SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 21279

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Special Protection Area: Killarney National Park SPA 004038
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE066-082001 Church
  Description

  On a hillock, to the E of the Killarney-Kenmare Road and within a graveyard (KE066-082004-). There are no visible remains of the church. It was indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a cruciform church 'in ruins' (c. 20m E-W; c. 18m N-S) in the SW corner of the graveyard. Skinner (1945, 6) suggests that the remains of the old church was converted into a family mortuary chapel which now stands in the SE quadrant of the graveyard (see KE066-082004-). Some dressed jambstones around the door ope and head of the E window in this chapel are possibly from the earlier church. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE066-082003 Church
  Description

  In the SE quadrant of a graveyard (KE066-082004-). A rectangular structure (7.45m E-W; 4.88m N-S) entered through a segmental arched door ope with rough voussoirs at the W end of the N wall. There is a single cut-limestone jamb on the E side of the door ope and a corbel supporting arch on the W side. A central window in the E wall has an arched embrasure with moulded corners and a round-headed light (Wth 0.2m; H 0.53m). A central window in the W wall with a rectangular light (Wth 0.82m; H 0.8m) and two holes for glazing bars in the sill. Altar at E end with low platforms on either side. Wall press at E end of N and S wall. Pointed vaulted plank centred roof, corbel support for centering in N and S wall. Tower-like W gable is ornately stepped with bellcote atop gable. According to Barrington (1976, 206), the old reconstructed church was built over the grave of Col Maurice Hussey. According to a wall plaque in the chapel it was built as a 'family mortuary chapel by Maurice Hussey of Cahernane … 1714'. Skinner (1945, 6) also suggests remains of the old church was converted into a family mortuary in the SE quadrant of the graveyard. However the earlier church (KE066-082001-) is indicated on the 1848 OS 6-inch map as a cruciform church in the SW quadrant of the graveyard. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE066-082004 Graveyard
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a hillock. The graveyard is an oval area (c. 95m NW-SE; c. 70m NE-SW) defined by a narrow fosse (Wth c. 2m; D c. 1.5m) cut into the hillside with stone facing on its internal face. There is a causeway entrance (Wth c. 9m) at SE, with wrought iron double gates. The fosse appears to be a recent feature. This is the burial place of the Herberts and Rose Vincents, families associated with Muckross House. An imitation High Cross, named 'monument' on the 1895 OS 6-inch map marks the burial place of Hernry Arthur Herbert who founded Muckross House. Large chest-tombs occupy most of the central area which is covered in bushes. Low uninscribed grave-markers occupy most of the SE area. The site of a church (KE066-082001-) is in the SW area and was possibly rebuilt as a family mortuary (KE066-082003-). According to Barrington (1976, 206), the German author Rudolph Raspe, was buried here in 1794 but the location of the grave is not known. A rectangular mortuary chapel (7.45m E-W; 4.88m N-S) is rebuilt on or near the site of an earlier church (KE066-082001-) in the SW quadrant of the graveyard. A segmental-arched door ope at the W end of the N wall with a single cut-limestone jamb to E is possibly from the earlier church. A central window in the E wall has an arched embrasure with moulded corners and a round-headed sandstone light (Wth 0.2m; H 0.53m). The chapel has a pointed vaulted plank-centred roof with a corbel support for the centring in the N and S walls. The tower-like W gable is ornately stepped and topped with a bellcote. A wall plaque in the chapel reads the 'family mortuary chapel by Maurice Hussey of Cahernane … 1714'. Skinner (1945, 6) suggests the remains of the old church was converted into a family mortuary. However the earlier church (KE066-082001-) is indicated on the 1848 OS 6-inch map as a cruciform church in the SW quadrant of the graveyard. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

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.

No address of the register names Killegy Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Killegy Lower

Area

591,877 m² (59.19 ha, 146.26 acres)

Civil parish

Killarney, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Muckross, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagh, Carrigafreaghane, Cloghereen Lower, Gortagullane, Gortahoonig, Muckross

Placenames

Killegy Lower 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.