Lissanearla East
Townland in the civil parish of Tralee, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry
- Area
- 93.1 ha
- 230 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 2,236 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissanearla East, from 234 m² to 225,805 m² (22.58 ha, 55.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lissanearla East 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
31 Mar 2025Refused
1) CONSTRUCT A STOREY AND HALF TYPE DWELLING, 2) INSTALL MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER, 3) EXISTING ACCESS TO FARM LAND TO FORM PART OF NEW ACCESS TO SITE, 4) ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ABOVE MENTIONED
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2575
12 Mar 2025Conditional
(a) Retain as constructed a domestic shed on site, and (b) retain as constructed, an extension which was constructed to the rear elevation and minor elevational changes on the front elevation of existing single storey dwelling which is served by an existing wastewater treatment unit and tertiary filter including all ancillary site works at Lissanearla East, Abbeydorney, Co. Kerry. (V92K188)
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560173
9 Aug 2023Conditional
Permission to a) construct a new dwelling b) install a mechanical treatment unit and raised soil polishing filter c) construct a domestic garage d) construct a vehicular site entrance and e) construct all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360079
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lissanearla East.
Recorded monuments
- KE021-125 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated two fields NE of the rath named Lissanearla (770), this circular enclosure is clearly marked on the 1841-42 OS map. On the later edition of 1898 the N sector has been cut by a fieldbank running in a NE-SW direction. No surface trace survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 769. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE021-126 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diameter 40m N-S, 41.4m E-W Lissanearla/Lios an Iarla (ringfort of the earl). This univallate rath is situated on rising land and has a commanding view of the surrounding countryside. It consists of a circular area enclosed by a well defined bank and exterior fosse. The enclosing earthen bank is on average 8m wide at the base. It rises to a maximum of 3m above the interior and 1.6m above the fosse. The U-shaped external fosse encloses the whole site. It is 1.6m wide and on average 1.1m deep. The entrance would appear to lie to the SE and is c 7m wide. The interior is at a higher level than the surrounding land, and in the centre are the clear foundations of a sub-rectangular house-site (KE021-126001-). According to tradition, the Earl of Desmond took refuge here as he sought to avoid defeat in the Desmond Wars of the 1580s. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 770. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE021-126001 House - indeterminate date
Description
The interior [of rath KE021-126----] is at a higher level than the surrounding land, and in the centre are the clear foundations of a sub-rectangular house-site (KE021-126001-). According to tradition, the Earl of Desmond took refuge here as he sought to avoid defeat in the Desmond Wars of the 1580s. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 770. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 21 January 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lissanearla East.
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
- 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_147 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lissanearla East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Lissanearla East
- Area
- 931,191 m² (93.12 ha, 230.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tralee, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Doon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Doon electoral division: 677 people in 241 households; 92% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Lacka Beg, Lacka More, Leath West, Lissanearla West, Lissatanvally
- Placenames
- Lissanearla East 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.