Lassaboy
Lassaboy is a townland in the civil parish of Kilgarrylander, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry.
- Area
- 246.2 ha
- 608 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 5,102 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lassaboy, from 20 m² to 1,259,701 m² (125.97 ha, 311.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lassaboy 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
2 Jul 2025Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCT A TRADITIONAL STYLE SINGLE STOREY WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION TYPE DWELLING HOUSE WITH DETACHED GARAGE, (B) INSTALL A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER, (C) CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORK
Permission · Kerry County Council, 25179
29 Oct 2024Conditional
Planning Permission to a) construct a new dwelling, b) install a mechanical treatment unit and polishing filter, c) construct a vehicular site entrance and d) construct all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460842
21 Feb 2018Conditional
RETAIN 1 NR. DOMESTIC GARAGE AND RETAIN FROUNT BOUNDARY WALL , ALL IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18146
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Mish Mountains SAC 002185
Recorded monuments
- KE046-006 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lassaboy.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Lassaboy, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_75 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Lassaboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Lassaboy
- Area
- 2,462,359 m² (246.24 ha, 608.46 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgarrylander, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Kilgarrylander, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 694 people lived in 260 households in the Kilgarrylander electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boolteens West, Castledrum, Curraheen, Gortaneden
- Placenames
- Lassaboy 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.