Lahesheragh North

99 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lahesheragh North, from 23 m² to 278,475 m² (27.85 ha, 68.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Lahesheragh North 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.

• 8 Jul 2026N/a

  for Planning Permission for, to construct a dwelling house and detached domestic shed and to install new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works, all the above at Lahesheragh North Lisselton Co.Kerry.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660638

• 4 Feb 2026Conditional

  Retention permission (1) to retain the demolition of part of existing dwelling,(2) retention permission to retain construction of dwelling up to and including ground floor level as built and all associated works (3)and Permission for completion of dwelling as Pl Reg 24/77 and all associated site works

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660072

• 3 Feb 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a detached single storey domestic garage to rear and Planning Permission for a new on-site waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660067

• 27 Feb 2024Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING GROUND FLOOR SHOP TO RESIDENTIAL USE, (2) TO EXTEND AND RAISE EXISTING ROOF, (3) TO CONSTRUCT NEW REAR GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION, (3) TO INSERT NEW WINDOWS TO NORTH AND SOUTHERN GABLES OF EXISTING DWELLING, (5) PLANNING PERMISSION FOR NEW MECHANICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND RAISED SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2477

• 19 Dec 2023Conditional

  Retention Permission to retain an existing telecommunications installation comprising of 24m lattice telecommunications support structure with attached antenna and dish equipment, associated communication buildings and attached omni antennas together with associated ground equipment cabinets and generator enclosed within a fenced compound located within the townland of Urlee and Lahesheragh North, Knockanore Mountain, Ballybunnion, Co. Kerry.

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2360431

• 26 Jun 2023Conditional

  RETAIN DETACHED SINGLE STOREY STNADALONE HOME OFFICE/GYM STRUCTURE TO FRONT AS CONSTRUCTED AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR (A) DEMOLITION OF CHIMNEY STACKS, SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO SIDE (SOUTH) AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE TO FRONT, (B) CONSTRUCTION OF PART SINGLE STOREY, PART TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE (SOUTH) AND DETACHED SINGLE STOREY REPLACEMENT GARAGE TO FRONT, (C) ALTERATIONS TO FENESTRATION/OPES AT GROUND AND FIRST FLOOR LEVELS TO ALL FOUR ELEVATIONS, (D) ADDITION OF 4 NO. ROOF LIGHTS TO SIDE (NORTH) ROOF PLANE AND (E) DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND UPGRADE TO A NEW PRIVATE ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (F) ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23726

• 18 Oct 2021Refused

  CONSTRUCT A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211179

• 3 Jun 2021Conditional

  DEMOLISH DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 21599

• 30 Mar 2021Conditional

  (1) TO RETAIN A DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED; (2) TO RETAIN A BOUNDARY WALL WITH PIERS ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE SITE AND RETAIN A CONCRETE WALL ON THE NORTH SIDE OF SITE, SUBJECT TO THE LANDSCAPING AND SCREENING OF THESE BOUNDARY WALLS ALL ON THEIR SITE

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21330

• 24 Feb 2020N/a

  RETAIN A DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED ALSO TO RETAIN A BOUNDARY WALL WITH PIERS ON THE WEST SIDE OF SITE AND RETAIN CONCRETE WALL ON THE NORTH SIDE OF SITE ALL ON THEIR SITE

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 20168

• 27 Feb 2017Conditional

  ERECT A BUNGALOW WITH A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA, ALSO PERMISSION TO CREATE A NEW ENTRANCE TO SAME AND PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF USE ON EXISTING COTTAGE ON SITE TO A DOMESTIC UTILITY STORE AND DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK ON SITE ALL

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17170

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 Lahesheragh North.

Recorded monuments

• KE005-024 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  This well is marked on the 1840-41 and 1914 OS maps as 'Tobernacree' (Tobar mo Creide/ Well of the Sacred Heart/ Tobar na Croí) (ITA Survey). Situation and Description: A small clear spring in a little well with rough stonework is surrounded by a circular fence and a fuchsia hedge. A grotto and a statue of Our Lady were erected in 1954. Rounds/Legends/Offerings: This well is still visited, especially on the Saturdays before May Day, Midsummer and Michaelmas. Nine rounds of three rosaries are made to gain a cure for sore eyes. Rags are placed on the bushes and money offerings are also made. Holy Well dedicated to St Mary was described by Ó Danachair (1958, 161) as a; 'small clear spring in a little well with rough stonework surrounded by a circular earth bank, about twenty-five feet in diameter with a fuchsia hedge; a "grotto" with a statue of Our Lady was erected in 1954. Still visited; rounds are made for the cure of sore eyes; water drunk and eyes bathed. Rags are put on the bushes and money offerings in a box. Three rosaries recited during nine circuits of the well. Days of devotion are the Saturdays before May Day, Midsummer and Michaelmas'. Folklore collected from Tullamore School between 1936-37 may be related to this well which is referred to as 'Mary's Well' and which recorded the following tradition; 'Long ago there was a blessed well in North Kerry near Ballyduff. It was called Mary's Well. If any person had any pain he would go to the well and he would come home cured. The Fame of this well went through the county and they came from all parts to be cured. This went on for years and nobody ever came back from Mary's well without being cured. Even the blind and sore-eyed people used go to be cured. But this famous well did not always hold. There was a girl near the place who was going to be married and one day a half blind old woman came to her door looking for alms. She said, "I have nothing to give an old blind hag like you". And the old woman said, "That the marriage ring may never go on you until you be as blind as myself". Next morning when the girl got up she could not open her eyes and she went to Mary's Well. When she reached the well whom did she see but the old woman whom she refused the day before and she abused her and called her an old hag and she tried to pull her from the well but both of them fell into the well and got drowned and the well vanished and was never again seen and where the well was once there is now a stream'(The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0399, Pages 134-5; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4666571/4662887). Rahavanaig School collected the following tradition about this well; 'There is one holy well in the parish in the townland of Lahesheragh. People visit it the Saturday before May, the Saturday before Saint John's and in September. Rounds are paid and prayers are said there. They go around the well nine times and they repeat a rosary for every three rounds. People have been cured of sore eyes at Tobar Na Croidhe. There is a cup at the well and the invalids drink the water and rub it to the affected part. They take home some of the water and use it for sores. People leave strings and medals tied to the bush. Money is put under the statues as an offering made. The bush never rots or decays in the winter or any other season of the year. There was another holy well in Tullamore. There was a battle on Knockanore long ago after the soldiers washed their wounds in the water of Tobar Fel [KE005-005----] and were immediately cured. The people began to use the water of Tobar Fel for household use and the well and statues disappeared' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0400, Pages 107-8; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4666572/4663099). Folklore collected from Ballybunnion School recorded the following tradition about 'Tobar na Croide (Croí); 'Situated on the side of Cnoc an Áir [Knockanore/Hill of the Slaughter] a whitethorn bush grows over it. Rounds are paid at this well on the Saturday before May Day and on Saturday before St. John's Day. Three rounds anti clockwise a rosary is said each round. Specially for the eyes and head. The water is applied to the affected place drank or taken away. The offerings made at this well are coins medals and rosaries placed near the well. Pieces of cloth are tied to the bush at finish of rounds' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0401, Page 001;https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4666574/4663204/4666711?ChapterID=4666574). The following cure was described in the folklore collected by Lisselton School which recorded the following tradition; 'One night a man called Barry went hunting a horse and he broke his leg. He was a long time lying on a settle bed near the fire and was not improving. There was a blessed well on the top of Cnoc an Óir [Knockanore], the name of it was Tobar na Croidhe. His mother took him on her back to this well, she brought home the moss of the well and rubbed it to his leg. She took him three times afterwards, and the third time he could walk it down. It never played on him again. His brother was sewing harness with a straddle needle. When he was pulling it out it stuck in his eye and blood spouted out of it. His mother took him to the same well and rubbed the moss to his his eye. The third day he said to her I can see a trout in the bottom of the well. From that day out his eye was alright' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0401, Pages 187-8; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4666576/4663391). See attached colour photographs courtesy of Amanda Clarke. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 890. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 17 May 2022

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c. 1860, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey return to west. Extended to south, built c. 1910, comprising three-bay two-storey block at right angles about a courtyard with raised quoins. Pitched slate roof with cement gable parapets, brick chimneystack and cast-iron gutter and downpipe. Single-storey section reroofed with artificial slate. Painted rendered walls with raised quoins. Roughcast rendered walls to single-storey section. Timber two-over-two and one-over-one pane sliding sash windows with painted sills. Square-headed doorway with timber boarded door having two-pane overlight. Render hood mouldings to single-storey section having decorative incising. Timber sliding sash and casements windows. Detached three-bay double-height barrel-roofed outbuilding, built c. 1940, to north with three-bay single-storey lean-to projecting bay to east and corrugated-iron roof. Set back from road.

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 high, 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 Lahesheragh North.

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

Name

Lahesheragh North · An Leathsheisreach Thuaidh

Area

1,452,050 m² (145.21 ha, 358.81 acres)

Civil parish

Lisselton, and its townlands

Barony

Iraghticonnor

Electoral division

Urlee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Urlee electoral division: 376 people in 148 households; 86% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynoneen, Barnadarrig, Farranpierce, Gortnaskeha Commons, Lahesheragh South, Tulla More, Urlee

Placenames

Lahesheragh North 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.