Lecarhoo

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lecarhoo, from 192 m² to 215,737 m² (21.57 ha, 53.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Lecarhoo 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.

• 6 Jun 2023Conditional

  (A) RETAIN ELEVATIONAL CHANGES MADE TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (B)RETAIN THE PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO THE SOUTH AND WEST OF EXISTING DWELLING. PLANNING PERMISSION (C) TO COMPLETE THE CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO THE SOUTH AND WEST (D) PLANNING PERMISSION TO CARRY OUT A PARTIAL ROOF REPLACEMENT TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING (E) PERMISSION TO MAKE FURTHER ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23644

• 12 Oct 2022Conditional

  INSTALL A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221070

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 Lecarhoo.

Recorded monuments

• KE047-069 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In wet pasture, on a NE-facing slope, on the E side of a tributary of the Tralia River. A semicircular arc (C 30m) of a low bank (Wth 4.8m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.2m) is evident NNW-S and may be the remains of the E half of a rath. On the 1894 OS 6-inch map the arc of bank is indicated NNW-SSW. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE047-075 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a NW-facing slope. A circular area (38m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 8.3m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.6m) N-W. The bank has been levelled W-N where the ground slopes gently down from the interior to the surrounding field. An external fosse (Wth c. 2.4m; D 0.6m) is evident SW-W but is covered by overgrowth. The interior slopes down to the NNW. There is a circular depression (diam. 2m; D 0.4m) in the NW quadrant of the interior. Field boundaries radiate from the N, SSW and W arcs of the rath. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE047-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle NNE-facing slope. A roughly circular area (diam. c. 34m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.35m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.25m) N-SSE and by a slight scarp (Wth 5.2m; max. ext. H 0.65m) WSW-N. The interior slopes down to the NNW. The remaining bank is incorporated into a field boundary system. There is a cattle break at E. The rath is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map and as an oval enclosure (c. 40m N-S; c. 35m E-W), incorporated into the field boundary system, on the 1894 OS 6-inch map. 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 Lecarhoo.

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 Lecarhoo.

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

Name

Lecarhoo

Area

1,366,145 m² (136.61 ha, 337.58 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnanare, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Kilnanare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilnanare electoral division: 1,052 people in 362 households; 92% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardywanig, Ballybrack, Keelties, Laharan, Lisheennashingane

Placenames

Lecarhoo 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.