Loughadoon

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Loughadoon, from 824,345 m² (82.43 ha, 203.7 acres) to 824,345 m² (82.43 ha, 203.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 3 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Loughadoon 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 Loughadoon 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Mount Brandon SAC 000375
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mount Brandon 000375

Recorded monuments

• KE035-074 Cist
  Description

  Lough Adoon lies at the head of a deep glaciated valley cut into the central mountain ridge E of the Conor Pass. A short distance from its W edge, in wet, boggy ground, is a short cist aligned ENE-WSW; it appears to flood in wet weather. The sides and ends are each formed by a single slab set on edge, their tops level with the present ground surface. The SW end stone is only detectable by probing, and a loose stone lying inside this may be either a broken portion of the end stone or a cap stone. One cap stone remains loosely in situ at the NE end and a 2nd slab lying loosely inside is probably another. Internally the structure measures 1.15m x .56m x c. 0.4m deep. The floor is covered with soil and rushes to a depth of .25m under which there appears to be a stony bottom. This resembles the short cists used for burial in the E and N of the country in the Early Bronze Age but its classification as such is not certain. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 209. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 4 August 2013

• KE035-076 Rock art
  Description

  On the W shore of Lough Adoon, about 30m from the waters edge, is an earthfast boulder, 2.4m x 2.05m x at least .6m thick. The markings on its upper surface are faint and the stone is difficult to locate amongst the profusion of rock outcrops and loose scree strewn about this side of the valley. A cup-and-4 circles has a radial line extending from the central cup across the inner circle and through gaps in the outer three. A cup-and-3 complete circles has faint traces of a radial line, and a 2nd cup-and-4 circles has 2 curving lines radiating out from opposite points on the outer circle. Also discernible are a single cup-mark and 3 or 4 curvilinear grooves. Finlay (1973, 17) notes that two further decorated rock surfaces are known in the immediate vicinity of the lake but their precise location has not been recorded. Other examples of rock art occur further down the valley within the bounds of the extensive pre-bog field system there (KE035-073----). The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 188. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 4 August 2013 In rough pasture (116m OD), on small, level area of flat grassy margin, on W shore of Lough Adoon; Present water level is c. 27m to E. A slightly rough and fractured sandstone (dims. 3.00m NW-SE; 2.40m NE-SW; max. H 0.45m at W) with a subrectangular decorated surface (dims. 1.15m NW-SE; 0.80m NE-SW) with a NE-facing aspect. The motifs are very faint and obscured by white and grey lichens; lower portion of rock face is obscured by black mosses. The decorative elements consist of two cup-and-four-ring motifs (overall diam. 20cm; ring Wth 1-1.5cm; D 1-2mm; cup dims. 5cm x 4cm; D 10mm) one of which has a radial groove (L 32cm; Wth 1-1.5cm; D 2-3mm) extending from the cupmark and through the rings. There are very faint traces of a cup-and-three-ring motif (overall diam. 18cm; ring Wth 1-1.5cm; D 1-2mm; cup diam. 3.5cm; D 6mm), four curvilinear grooves and a cupmark. Finlay (1973, 17) notes that two further decorated rock surfaces are known in the immediate vicinity of the lake but their precise location has not been recorded. Other examples of rock art occur further down the valley within the bounds of the extensive pre-bog field system there (KE035-073----). Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 7 July 2017

• KE035-116 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.

• KE035-117 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.

• KE035-118 Hut site
  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.

• KE035-161 Rock art
  Description

  In rough pasture (134m OD), strewn with boulders, on lower portion of a steep E-facing slope directly overlooking Loughadoon to E. This rock faces the mouth of Loughadoon, where it flows out to the Scorid River and onwards to the sea at Brandon Bay. Immediate views around Loughadoon corrie lake and distant views of Brandon Mountain range to NW and Brandon Bay to N. A slightly rough and unfractured sandstone boulder (dims. 1.3m NE-SW; 1.8m NW-SE; H 0.5m at E side) which is lozenge-shaped in elevation. It has a linear decorated surface (dims. 0.4m NE-SW; 0.15m NW-SE) which has a relatively steep NE-facing aspect. The decorated surface bears the faint remains of three ringmarks. These are orientated in a line (long-axis NE-SW) roughly in centre of stone and situated c. 9-10cm apart. Each ringmark (dims. 10cm NW-SE; c. 7cm NE-SW) is defined by a ring (Wth 1.5cm; D 1-3mm); There is no central cupmark. This is not classic rock art and the decorative elements appear as if they are residual portions of former motifs or perhaps those that were never completed. An unrecorded hut site is c. 10m to SE and rock art (KE035-076----) is c. 170m to S. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 17 July 2017

• KE044-032 Hut site
  Description

  On W shore of Lough Adoon. A circular corbelled drystone hut. D: 2.6m. H: 1.55m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1401. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Loughadoon.

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

At the centre of the townland of Loughadoon, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Loughadoon.

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.

No address of the register names Loughadoon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Loughadoon · Loch an Dúin

Area

820,205 m² (82.02 ha, 202.68 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyduff, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaguiny

Electoral division

Ballyduff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

136 people lived in 55 households in the Ballyduff electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 28% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhoneen, Coumanare, Kilmore

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Loughadoon 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.