Killorane

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killorane, from 16 m² to 82,027 m² (8.2 ha, 20.27 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Killorane 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 Jul 2025Conditional

  planning Permission to a) construct a private dwelling and domestic garage/shed b) install a mechanical treatment unit and polishing filter, c) construct a vehicular site entrance, d) construct all associated site works at Killorane, Ardfert, Tralee, Co. Kerry

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560617

• 13 Dec 2023Conditional

  Construct a dwelling house with septic tank and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360409

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 Killorane.

Recorded monuments

• KE020-062 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 30.6m N-S, 27m E-W This sub-circular univallate rath is cut on its W side by a fieldbank running N-S, The enclosing earthen bank is well defined, especially N through E; it is much lower to the S. It is on average 6m wide at the base and rises to a maximum of 2m internally and 3m externally. An exterior fosse can be noted NW through N to E, where it is 1.2m wide and 1.3m deep. Access is gained to the interior by a 2m wide entrance to the SE. In the NW sector of the interior is a horseshoe-shaped mound of stones with the incurve facing S. It rises to a height of 1.6m The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 686. 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 Killorane.

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_60 (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 Killorane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Killorane

Area

280,087 m² (28.01 ha, 69.21 acres)

Civil parish

Ardfert, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Ardfert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardfert electoral division: 1,100 people in 424 households; 60% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardfert Oughter, Brandonwell, Graigue Glebe, Knockeanagh, Rahoneen, Rathcrihane

Placenames

Killorane 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.