Killorane
Townland in the civil parish of Ardfert, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry
Parcel 1225188
- Area
- 71,632 m² (7.16 ha, 17.7 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Killorane
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 3 recorded monuments.
- KE020-054 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diameter 46m N-S, 45m E-W Rathcrihane/Ráth Creacháin, ringfort of Creachán (personal name). This very overgrown univallate rath is situated between two fields, and a fieldbank touches it to the NW and SE. It consists of a circular area enclosed by a bank and exterior fosse. The enclosing earthen bank rises to c 1.2m above the interior and on average 2.2m above the fosse. The exterior fosse encloses the whole site and is well defined; it is 1.4m-3.6m wide and 1m deep. The interior is at a higher level than the surrounding land, and in the SW sector are souterrain remains which were discovered in 1938 when the landowner (Mr McKenna) was digging a grave for a dead horse and came across a small drystone shaft about .9m below the surface of the ground. This lead into a big souterrain (KE020-054001-) which, according to O'Connell (1938), was at least eight feet high. This fort is also connected to Sir Roger Casement, who was captured here in April 1916 (seeJKAHS No 20, 1987, 94-110). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 707. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 60/1938).
- KE020-054001 Souterrain
Description
Rathcrihane/Ráth Creacháin, ringfort of Creachán (personal name). Overgrown univallate rath KE020-054---- is situated between two fields, and a fieldbank touches it to the NW and SE. It consists of a circular area enclosed by a bank and exterior fosse. The interior is at a higher level than the surrounding land, and in the SW sector are souterrain remains which were discovered in 1938 when the landowner (Mr McKenna) was digging a grave for a dead horse and came across a small drystone shaft about .9m below the surface of the ground. This lead into a big souterrain (KE020-054001-) which, according to O'Connell (1938), was at least eight feet high. This fort is also connected to Sir Roger Casement, who was captured here in April 1916 (see JKAHS No 20, 1987, 94-110). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 707. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 60/1938).
- KE020-054002 Enclosure
Description
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 60/1938).
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- 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_59 (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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 28 ha
- 69 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 3,059 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
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).
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 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Killorane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- 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.