Marhin

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Marhin, from 44 m² to 277,336 m² (27.73 ha, 68.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Marhin 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 Sept 2018Conditional

  (A) DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY AND (C) CONSTRUCT A NEW PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER, ALL WITH ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SERVICES / SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18871

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

The National Parks and Wildlife Service did not answer.

Recorded monuments

• KE042-091 Standing stone
  Description

  There is no visible trace of the 'Gallaun' marked on the OS maps. It was situated in fairly rough pastureland on the E slopes of Croaghmarhin, overlooking the broad crescent of lowlying land that surrounds Smerwick Harbour. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 157. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 4 August 2013

• KE042-129 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Toberone/Tobar Eoin: A spring well located on the E side of the roadway which leads from Ballyferriter to Marhin. It is now contained within a drystone-built, lintelled niche at the base of the road boundary wall. Ó Danachair (1960, 78) recorded a tradition that a turas was formerly held here on the 24th of June. Both An Seabhac (1939, 107) and Ó Danachair mention another holy well called Tobar na Rátha, in the townland. However, O'Sullivan (1931, 520) noted that both names applied to the one well, Tobar Eoin being an earlier name for Tobar na Rátha. This appears to be confirmed by the fact that Toberone is the name marked on the OS maps but the site is known locally as Tobar na Rátha. See attached colour photographs courtesy of Amanda Clarke. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 957. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE042-130 Hut site
  Description

  Located beside a dwelling house. A complete circular corbelled hut with a lintelled doorway and window. Probably relatively modern. D: 3.4m. H: 2.56m. T: .8m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1404. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

• KE042-131 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 36.5m N-S, 39.4m E-W A substantial univallate rath containing traces of possible hut-sites and a possible souterrain. It abuts the W side of a roadway on the E slopes of Croaghmarhin. The earthen enclosing bank is 4.3m wide at base and a maximum of 3.8m high. There are intermittent traces of drystone revetment walling along the inner face at WSW and E. A short stretch of drystone walling on the outer face at S may be a late feature associated with the adjacent roadway. The external fosse is up to 2.3m deep and c. 3.5 to 3.9m wide at base. To S and SE it has been obliterated by the construction of the road and, in the same area, the bank has also been disturbed and has been almost completely levelled for a short stretch at SE. The entrance must have been located at this latter point as the bank is otherwise continuous. The bank has also been disturbed on either side of the field fence which radiates from the site at SW. Hut-sites (KE042-131001- and KE042-131003-) and souterrain (KE042-131002-): A roughly circular hollow, enclosed by a low band of earth and stones, occurs in the inner face of the bank at S. It is difficult to be certain that this is a hut-site as the bank is considerably disturbed in this sector. The hollow is c. 3m in diameter and the enclosing bank is up to 1.15m high and c. 2m wide. The entrance may have been in the N sector. A roughly L-shaped mound of earth and stones is located about 4m to NNE of the latter feature. It is c. 4.5m long E-W and c. 1.9m high. It may be the remains of a rectangular hut-site. Much of the N portion of the interior is occupied by irregular ridges and hollows, the mounds being composed chiefly of stone. They do not conform to any recognisable pattern but some linear hollows may indicate a souterrain and some large prostrate slabs in the vicinity may be related to this. The largest mound measures 5.05m E-W and is up to 1.2m high. It may be the remains of the structure described by O'Sullivan (1931, 520) as 'a rectangular stone structure about 4 feet high, roofed with flags, one of which has fallen in'. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 504. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE042-131001 Hut site
  Description

  Hut site described by Cuppage (1986, 170-71, no. 504) as follows; 'A substantial univallate rath [KE042-131----] containing traces of possible hut-sites and a possible souterrain. It abuts the W side of a roadway on the E slopes of Croaghmarhin. A roughly circular hollow, enclosed by a low band of earth and stones, occurs in the inner face of the bank at S. It is difficult to be certain that this is a hut-site as the bank is considerably disturbed in this sector. The hollow is c. 3m in diameter and the enclosing bank is up to 1.15m high and c. 2m wide. The entrance may have been in the N sector. A roughly L-shaped mound of earth and stones is located about 4m to NNE of the latter feature. It is c. 4.5m long E-W and c. 1.9m high. It may be the remains of a rectangular hut-site. Much of the N portion of the interior is occupied by irregular ridges and hollows, the mounds being composed chiefly of stone. They do not conform to any recognisable pattern but some linear hollows may indicate a souterrain and some large prostrate slabs in the vicinity may be related to this. The largest mound measures 5.05m E-W and is up to 1.2m high. It may be the remains of the structure described by O'Sullivan (1931, 520) as 'a rectangular stone structure about 4 feet high, roofed with flags, one of which has fallen in.'

• KE042-131002 Souterrain
  Description

  Souterrain described by Cuppage (1986, 170-71, no. 504) as follows; 'A substantial univallate rath [KE042-131----] containing traces of possible hut-sites [KE042-131001-] and a possible souterrain. It abuts the W side of a roadway on the E slopes of Croaghmarhin. Much of the N portion of the interior is occupied by irregular ridges and hollows, the mounds being composed chiefly of stone. They do not conform to any recognisable pattern but some linear hollows may indicate a souterrain and some large prostrate slabs in the vicinity may be related to this. The largest mound measures 5.05m E-W and is up to 1.2m high. It may be the remains of the structure described by O'Sullivan (1931, 520) as 'a rectangular stone structure about 4 feet high, roofed with flags, one of which has fallen in.'

• KE042-131003 Hut site
  Description

  Hut site described by Cuppage (1986, 170-71, no. 504) as follows; 'A substantial univallate rath [KE042-131----] containing traces of possible hut-sites and a possible souterrain. It abuts the W side of a roadway on the E slopes of Croaghmarhin. A roughly circular hollow, enclosed by a low band of earth and stones, occurs in the inner face of the bank at S. It is difficult to be certain that this is a hut-site as the bank is considerably disturbed in this sector. The hollow is c. 3m in diameter and the enclosing bank is up to 1.15m high and c. 2m wide. The entrance may have been in the N sector. A roughly L-shaped mound of earth and stones is located about 4m to NNE of the latter feature. It is c. 4.5m long E-W and c. 1.9m high. It may be the remains of a rectangular hut-site. Much of the N portion of the interior is occupied by irregular ridges and hollows, the mounds being composed chiefly of stone. They do not conform to any recognisable pattern but some linear hollows may indicate a souterrain [KE042-131002-] and some large prostrate slabs in the vicinity may be related to this. The largest mound measures 5.05m E-W and is up to 1.2m high. It may be the remains of the structure described by O'Sullivan (1931, 520) as 'a rectangular stone structure about 4 feet high, roofed with flags, one of which has fallen in.'

• KE042-133 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  This site commands an extensive view W and SW towards the Blasket islands from its bleak and windswept location just E of the summit of Mám Clasach, a high mountain pass between Croaghmarhin and Coumaleague hill. A sub-circular area, c. 17m N-S and 20m E-W, is enclosed by a shallow fosse, 1 to 2.5m wide and no more than .4m deep, and an external bank rising a maximum of 1m internally and .8m externally; the overall dimensions are c. 38m E-W and 35m N-S. Two opposed entrances provide access to the interior from E and W. That to W is 2.1m wide and provided with a narrow causeway leading across the fosse; that to E is 3.6m wide and opens directly onto the bottom of the fosse. Immediately N of this latter entrance the bank appears to have been disturbed. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 253. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 4 August 2013

• KE042-134 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  There is no trace of the ‘carn’ noted at this location by the Kerry Archaeological Survey. No further details are available. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 237. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 4 August 2013

Architectural heritage

The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage did not answer.

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Marhin · Márthain

Area

3,028,674 m² (302.87 ha, 748.4 acres)

Civil parish

Marhin, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaguiny

Electoral division

Marhin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

256 people lived in 113 households in the Marhin electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 39% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinleague, Ballintemple, Ballyferriter, Ballynahow Commons, Ballywiheen, Commons North, Coumaleague, Glanmore, Rahinnane West, Teeravane

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Marhin 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.