Lickeen
Lickeen is a townland in the civil parish of Glanbehy, barony of Iveragh, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is An Licín.
- Area
- 230.7 ha
- 570 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 3,654 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lickeen, from 385 m² to 762,714 m² (76.27 ha, 188.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Lickeen 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
11 Jun 2021Conditional
DEVELOPMENT ALONG A 4.6KM LONG SECTION OF AN EXISTING 20KV OVERHEAD ELECTRICITY LINE (REFERRED TO AS "THE GLENCAR LINE") LOCATED BETWEEN STRUCTURES 143 TO 196 INCLUSINVE. THE DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF REFURBISHMENT AND UPGRADING WORKS INCLUDING (WHERE NECESSARY) REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING POLES, AND THE PROVISION OF 2 NO. NEW POLES, ALONG THE EXISTING OVERHEAD ELECTRICITY LINE. REPLACEMENT POLES WILL BE CONSTRUCTED AT, OR IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO THE EXISTING STRUCTURES THAT THEY WILL REPLACE. REPLACEMENT AND NEW POLES WILL HAVE A MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF 12M ABOVE GROUND; AND BE SIMILAR IN APPEARANCE TO EXISTING POLES. ADDITIONAL UPGRADE WORKS WILL INCLUDE: INSTALLATION OF STAYS; REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING EQUIPMENT E.G. HEADGEAR, INSTALLATION OF ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT; INSTALLATION OF A NEW 3 PHASE CONDUCTOR ALONG THE FULL LENGTH OF THE LINE; AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF TEMPORARY ACCESSWAYS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL BE SUBMITTED WITH THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Kerry County Council, 21635
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: 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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lickeen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lickeen.
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 Lickeen, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lickeen.
- 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 Lickeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Lickeen · An Licín
- Area
- 2,307,174 m² (230.72 ha, 570.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Glanbehy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iveragh
- Electoral division
- Lickeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 99 people lived in 37 households in the Lickeen electoral division. 97% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappyantanvally, Cosha South, Dreenagh, Drom East, Drombrane, Dromdoory, Lyranes Lower
- Placenames
- Lickeen 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.