Lough

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lough, from 11 m² to 474,844 m² (47.48 ha, 117.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Lough 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Lough in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Lough.

Recorded monuments

• KE053-020 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  Black Point is a small promontory on the E side of the entrance to Dingle Harbour. A wide fosse runs N-S across the landward side, and the upcast sand has been deposited on either side. Where least disturbed the fosse is 4m wide at base and rises 5m to the exterior and 2m to the interior. Towards the centre it widens out considerably, but this may be due to more recent disturbance. Sections of 2 stone walls and a pit are visible in the cliff face that bounds the interior. This may have been a promontory fort, or it may possibly have formed part of the 'small fort or block-house' which formely defended the harbour according to Smith (1756, 177). The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 276. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 4 August 2013

• KE053-029 Souterrain
  Description

  Lewis (1837, 649) recorded the discovery, in the vicinity of Ballintaggart burial ground (KE053-033003-), of 'several small circular cells ... constructed of stone work and communicating with each other'. They were entered by means of a descent of several steps and were 'supposed to have formed an ancient reservoir'. The 'cave' marked in Lough townland on the 1st edition of the OS map was closed up when visited by the OS, but, on the basis of local information, it was taken to be the structures referred to by Lewis (OSM). However, about three-quarters of a mile to NE, in 'the well field' in Ballintaggart townland, is a disused well which may alternatively be that recorded by Lewis. If so, it is uncertain whether or not there was another well, or perhaps a souterrain, in Lough townland at the above co-ordinates. The well in Ballintaggart consists of a large, underground, drystone-built chamber roofed by large flags. Access is by means of a flight of stone steps. The floor of the chamber is filled in with loose stones and is flooded at present. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 780. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE053-070 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 24m A circular univallate rath with the ruins of a circular hut centrally positioned in the interior. It is located about 100m from the E side of the entrance to Dingle Harbour. The bank, composed of earth and small stones, rises to a maximum height of 2m externally and 1.25m internally. There are faint traces of an external fosse along the SW and SE sectors. Part of the bank has been replaced with drystone walling. There are 4 entrance gaps at present but it is not clear where the original entrance lay. The hut measures 8m in diameter internally and the ruined wall is 1m wide and up to .4m high. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 500. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE053-070001 Hut site
  Description

  Circular univallate rath KE053-070---- with the ruins of a circular hut (KE053-070001-) centrally positioned in the interior. The hut measures 8m in diameter internally and the ruined wall is 1m wide and up to .4m high. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 500. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE053-097 Building
  Description

  Possible building associated with Tralee Dominican friary (KE029-236001-) described by Cuppage (1986, 383) as follows; 'In 1584 the possessions of the Dominican Friary in Tralee included 'a house with 2 acres near the town of Dingle' (Archdall 1873, 2, 248). A field E of Dingle known as 'Garranabraher' has been identified as the location of this property (Hickson 1888, 445). There is no trace of any feature at the site and it seems likely that the foundation was not very extensive'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload; 7 April 2022

Architectural heritage

• Hussey's Folly, folly, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding square-plan single-bay single-storey over raised basement folly tower, built c.1845, now in ruins. Stepped castellations to parapet wall with fragments of original slate-hanging to inner face of parapet. Red sandstone rubble walls with ashlar quoins, corbelled parapet on ashlar string course having corner skewbacks, red brick castellations to parapet wall and ashlar copings. Four round-headed openings at first floor with red brick arches and reveals, sills removed. Similar arched doorway now blocked up. Small window at ground floor also blocked up. Corner chimney breasts to two corners and plastered walls to interior. Set on An Scoth [Black Point] overlooking Cuan an Daingin [Dingle Harbour].

• Lough House, house, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan six-bay two-storey house, built 1844, set about a courtyard originally intended as stable complex. Single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to left and six-bay two-storey return to rear to south-west. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Coursed rubble stone walls with ashlar quoins. Red brick flat arches and reveals to openings with limestone sills, some retaining six-over-six pane sliding sash windows, some c. 1900 two-over-two pane sliding sash windows and some replacement timber windows. Attached seven-bay two-storey rubble stone-built outbuilding, built 1844, to north-west on an L-shaped plan completing quadrangle with segmental-headed integral carriage arch to west elevation having dovecote over and flights of steps to entrances to first floor. Set within its own grounds.

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 5 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 Lough.

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

Name

Lough · An Loch

Area

501,864 m² (50.19 ha, 124.01 acres)

Civil parish

Garfinny, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaguiny

Electoral division

Glinn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glinn electoral division: 1,806 people in 654 households; 77% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintaggart, Ballinvownig, Beenbane, Farraneesteenig, Kilnaglearagh

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Lough 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.