Knockysheehan

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockysheehan, from 71 m² to 241,359 m² (24.14 ha, 59.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Knockysheehan 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.

• 22 Dec 2022Conditional

  RENOVATE EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING AND CONSTRUCT NEW FRONT PORCH, TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR AND SOUTH SIDE OF DWELLING ALONG WITH INSTALLATION OF SECONDARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221347

• 24 Feb 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND SANDCEL POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22200

• 1 Jun 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND SANDCEL POLISHING FILTER

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 21593

• 7 May 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND SANDCEL POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21494

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 Knockysheehan.

Recorded monuments

• KE059-047 Kiln - lime
  Description

  On E side of farm yard oppposite a second limekiln (KE059-048---). Random rubble shale front wall (H 3.1m; Wth 4.2m) faces NE. Central segmental arched recess (H 1.3m; Wth 2m; D c. 2m) with inner segmental arch. Ledge across front of kiln 2.1m above ground. Funnel infilled. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE059-048 Kiln - lime
  Description

  On W side of farm yard opposite a second limekiln (KE059-047---). Random rubble front wall faces SE. Recess and much of front wall concealed by overgrowth. Large tree growing against SW corner of kiln. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE067-111 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, on a S-facing slope with views SSW to Torc Mountain. The stone (dims. 0.85m x 0.4m; H 1.05m) is roughly rectangular in plan, leans slightly to the SW and is orientated NNE-SSW. A packing-stone is evident at the ENE side. 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 Knockysheehan.

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 10 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockysheehan.

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 Knockysheehan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Knockysheehan

Area

1,998,039 m² (199.8 ha, 493.73 acres)

Civil parish

Aghadoe, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Headfort, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Headfort electoral division: 1,047 people in 353 households; 70% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrigeencullia, Knockanarroor, Knocknaskeha, Lisbabe, Raheen

Placenames

Knockysheehan 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.