Kilnabrack Upper

228 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilnabrack Upper, from 16 m² to 1,560,501 m² (156.05 ha, 385.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 47 neighbouring parcels touch it.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kenmare Municipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 105 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Kenmare Municipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 22 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M4Built up Area (Built up area)
  Kenmare Municipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  Kenmare Municipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Kenmare Municipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Landscape Protection (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Kenmare Municipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
  Kenmare Municipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 5 Jun 2026Conditional

  Permission to construct a dwellinghouse and domestic garage served by a septic tank and polishing filter at Kilnabrack Upper, Glenbeigh, Co. Kerry

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660504

• 14 Jun 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCICATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23681

• 16 Feb 2021Refused

  CHANGE USE FROM HOLIDAY HOME TO PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21134

• 22 Oct 2020Refused

  A) CREATE ADDITIONAL HOTEL ACCOMMODATION WITHIN A NEW TRADITIONAL STYLE 1½ STOREY, 8 UNIT STEPPED TERRACE TYPE BUILDING FORM. UNITS 1, 2, 3 AND 4 WILL EACH CONTAIN A STUDIO APARTMENT AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND A STUDIO APARTMENT AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL. UNITS 5, 6, 7 AND 8 WILL EACH BE A TWO BEDROOM COTTAGE WITH LIVING AREAS AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND BEDROOMS AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL. B) CREATE ADDITIOANL CAR PARKING, LINKING THE TWO EXISTING CAR PARKING AREAS INTERNALLY. C) REDUCE THE NUMBER OF ENTRY/EXIT POINTS (FROM THREE ENTRY POINTS AND THREE EXIT POINTS ) TO TWO NUMBER ENTRY POINTS AND ONE ONLY EXIT POINT ON THE N70 ROAD. SERVED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING WATER ATTENUATION MEASURES

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 201009

• 13 Jan 2020Conditional

  (A) RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED DWELLING HOUSE AND AS CONSTRUCTED STORAGE SHED TO REAR OF THE PROPERTY, (B) RETAIN THE ACCESS ROAD WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND (C) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN ALL OF THE ABOVE WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2012

• 12 Jul 2019Conditional

  (A) DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING, (B) EXTEND EXISTING ACCESS ROAD WITH RETAINING WALL , (C) CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTIC CONVERSION COMPLETE WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER, WITH ALL PROPOSED WORKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19734

• 28 Sept 2018Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT EIGHT TRADITIONAL STYLE SEMI DETCHED HOLIDAY COTTAGES, (B) CREATE ADDITIONAL CAR PARKING LINKING THE TWO EXISTING CAR PARKING AREAS INTERNALLY (C) REDUCE THE NUMBER OF VEHICULAR ENTRY/EXIT POINTS (FROM THREE ENTRY POINTS AND THREE EXIT POINTS) TO TWO NUMBERS ENTRY POINTS AND ONE ONLY EXIT POINT ON TO THE N70, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 8 homes · Kerry County Council, 18944

• 14 Mar 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT 4 NO. TWO STORY TYPE DWELLING HOUSES C/W ACCESS ROAD AND SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED

  Outline permission, 4 homes · Kerry County Council, 18243

• 29 Sept 2017Refused

  (A) CONSTRUCT 8 TRADITIONAL STYLE SEMI-DETACHED HOLIDAY COTTAGES, (B) CREATE ADDITIONAL CAR PARKING, LINKING THE TWO EXISTING CAR PARKING AREAS INTERNALLY, (C) REDUCE THE NUMBER OF VEHICULAR ENTRY / EXIT POINTS (FROM 3 ENTRY POINTS AND 3 EXIT POINTS) TO TWO IN NUMBER ENTRY POINTS AND ONE ONLY EXIT POINT ON TO THE N70, ALSO TO OMITTHE CUL DE SAC ACCESS ONTO THE LOCAL PRIMARY ROAD, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 17974

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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE063-009 Standing stone
  Description

  There is no visible trace of the stone marked in this location as ‘Gallaun’ on the second edition of the OS map. It was situated in pastureland on the lower W slopes of Seefin. 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. 244. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

Architectural heritage

• Glenbeigh Towers, country house, 1865–1875 · National interest
  Description

  Remains of detached two-bay three-storey over raised base stone-built Medieval Revival style Victorian tower house with attic, built 1867-1871, with batter to base, single-bay three-storey engaged octagonal turret to south-east corner originally with octagonal spire, two-bay side elevation and originally with recessed gable ends to attic. Originally about a courtyard, burnt in 1922 and now ruinous and mostly collapsed with south-east corner remaining. Sandstone rubble stone walls with ashlar string courses and quoins. Sandstone ashlar surrounds to window openings with pointed, trefoil or square-heads having stepped sandstone sill courses. Remains of detached single-bay single-storey stone-built bastion, built 1867-1871, to west with base batter, gun loops and originally connected to main block with battered bawn wall, now ruinous. Remains of detached two-bay single-storey stone-built outbuilding, built 1867-1871, to north-east, now ruinous and mostly collapsed.

• Glenbeigh Church (Glanbehy), church/chapel, 1895–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built c. 1900, with three-bay nave, single-bay two-stage entrance tower to south-west corner with limestone ashlar spire, two-bay single-storey lean-to vestry projection to south-west gable end and single-bay double-height polygonal apse to north-east gable end. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, concrete gable copings, cast-iron gutter, hoppers and downpipes and limestone ashlar upper stage and spire to tower. Exposed random squared red sandstone walls with grey limestone quoins and dressings to buttresses, and having profiled red brick eaves course. Pointed arch openings with diamond-pattern leaded glazing, red brick surrounds and tooled limestone sills. Arched tripartite chancel window. Replacement timber boarded door approached by flight of limestone steps. Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers, c. 1800-present. Gateway, built c. 1800, to north-west comprising pair of cast-iron piers with hoop iron gates. Rubble retaining wall to road.

• Hotel, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey hotel, built c. 1900, originally on an L-shaped plan, with seven-bay single-storey lean-to open veranda to ground floor having gablet to centre and three-bay single-storey wing with half-dormer attic at right angles to south-west. Renovated and extended to south-west, c. 1970, comprising six-bay two-storey parallel range with six-bay two-storey flat-roofed lower parallel return. Later extension to north-west, comprising seven-bay two-storey wing with single-bay single-storey gabled box oriel windows. Pitched and hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and gabled half-dormers to front. Rendered walls, painted to corner section. Snecked sandstone facing to north east façade. Horizontal timber boarding to west additions. Sandstone facing to pubfront. Timber one-over-one pane sliding sash windows with painted sills. Painted brick flat arches and reveals to hotel block. Segmental-headed openings to corner section. Double-leaf panelled door with overlight to hotel. Gabled porch to public house. Retaining interior features. Garden to rear.

• Saint James's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding double-height Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church, built c. 1880, with seven-bay nave, single-bay single-storey lean-to advanced chapel to north corner, single-bay single-storey sacristy projection to south corner and bellcote to north-west gable end. Renovated and extended, c. 1910, with single-bay double-height gabled transept added to south-west elevation. Late twentieth century single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting bay added to sacristy. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge comb and having limestone ashlar chimneystack to sacristy. Exposed coursed sandstone rubble walls with grey limestone quoins. Single lancets to nave, triple lancets to transept and chancel, all having limestone surrounds. Pointed arched door opening with stepped limestone surround and double-leaf boarded door with original lock. Doorway on north wall blocked up. Open truss roof to interior with single transept to south west gallery. Chancel reordered. Stained glass panels to chancel, transept and one to nave. Original marble side altars. Gothic Revival panelled confessional doors. Freestanding cut-stone Celtic Cross style grave marker, c. 1910, to site. Gateway, built c. 1880, to north-west comprising pair of piers with cast-iron gates and railings.

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).

• Kilnabrack Upper, Glenbeigh5 sales

Name

Kilnabrack Upper · Cill na mBreac Uachtarach

Area

2,534,443 m² (253.44 ha, 626.27 acres)

Civil parish

Glanbehy, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Glanbehy, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Curra, Curraheen, Curraheen Little, Faha, Gowlane, Kilnabrack Lower, Treangarriv

Placenames

Kilnabrack Upper 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.