Mastergeehy

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mastergeehy, from 267 m² to 177,672 m² (17.77 ha, 43.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Mastergeehy 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 Mastergeehy 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 Mastergeehy.

Recorded monuments

• KE089-020 Standing stone
  Description

  This stone is located just S of the Inny river, in good pastureland that affords lengthy views along the river valley. Of rectangular elevation with a sloping top, it stands 1.75m high. It is roughly rectangular in plan at base, measuring .9m x 0.5m; E-W. A number of packing stones protrude at its base. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 199. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE089-021 Standing stone
  Description

  This monument, which is indicated as ‘Gallaun’ on both editions of the OS maps, could not be located. It was sited on the lower NW facing slope of a ridge which spurs from Coomduff mountain. The area is now heavily afforested. Less than 100m upslope is the site of another standing stone (KE089-022----). The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 246. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE089-022 Standing stone
  Description

  Located less than 100m SE of KE089-021----, this standing stone is also marked as ‘Gallaun’ on both editions of the OS maps. Owing to heavy afforestation, the site is inaccessible. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 247. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

Architectural heritage

• Scoil Náisiúnta Máistir Gaoithe [Mastergeehy National School], school, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey schoolhouse, built c. 1880, with single-bay single-storey lean-to projecting porch to centre. Now disused and partly derelict. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, cement copings to gables, cast-iron guttering, hopper and downpipe. Rendered rubble stone walls with sandstone projecting eaves course. Carved granite plaque to porch reading "Scoil Maistin Gaoite/Scoil Naisiunta". Timber six-over-six pane sliding sash windows with limestone sills. Entrance in north side of porch with timber ledged and boarded door. Timber sixteen pane porch windows. Single classroom to interior with profiled edges to ceiling, timber boarded window reveals, chimney breasts to either end of room, line of full-height partition in floor and ceiling, ledged and boarded door to porch and timber benching around walls.

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Mastergeehy · Máistir Gaoithe

Area

898,305 m² (89.83 ha, 221.98 acres)

Civil parish

Dromod, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Mastergeehy, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Derrineden, Doory, Foildrenagh, Inchiboy, Inchinatinny

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Mastergeehy 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.