# Mastergeehy, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dromod, barony of Iveragh, Co. Kerry; in Irish Máistir Gaoithe. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 898,305 m² (89.83 ha, 221.98 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,439 m² (0.84 ha, 2.09 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dromod, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/dromod.md - Barony: Iveragh - Electoral division: Mastergeehy, the unit of the census - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/22358 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 72207 - Centre: latitude 51.883595, longitude -10.096947 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mastergeehy, from 267 m² to 177,672 m² (17.77 ha, 43.9 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1208753: 177,672 m² (17.77 ha, 43.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1208753.md - Parcel 1143636: 148,503 m² (14.85 ha, 36.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1143636.md - Parcel 1239748: 145,188 m² (14.52 ha, 35.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1239748.md - Parcel 1239914: 107,516 m² (10.75 ha, 26.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1239914.md - Parcel 1239971: 103,812 m² (10.38 ha, 25.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1239971.md - Parcel 1198126: 103,502 m² (10.35 ha, 25.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1198126.md - Parcel 1530371: 29,127 m² (2.91 ha, 7.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1530371.md - Parcel 1210014: 20,050 m² (2.01 ha, 4.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1210014.md - Parcel 1209681: 17,942 m² (1.79 ha, 4.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1209681.md - Parcel 1239643: 10,998 m² (1.1 ha, 2.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1239643.md - Parcel 1148312: 5,880 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1148312.md - Parcel 4025251: 4,553 m² (0.46 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4025251.md - Parcel 1186476: 3,737 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1186476.md - Parcel 1189434: 3,692 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1189434.md - Parcel 1198226: 3,467 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1198226.md - Parcel 1178563: 2,833 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1178563.md - Parcel 1239946: 2,527 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1239946.md - Parcel 1530432: 2,071 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1530432.md - Parcel 1164201: 1,328 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1164201.md - Parcel 1158144: 267 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1158144.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Mastergeehy in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mastergeehy. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE089-020: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE089-020----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE089-021----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE089-022----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Scoil Náisiúnta Máistir Gaoithe [Mastergeehy National School], school, 1870–1890, Regional interest, registry number 21308901, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KE®no=21308901. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Mastergeehy, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low. - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/mastergeehy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/mastergeehy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/mastergeehy.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Mastergeehy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Derrineden: https://everytownland.com/kerry/derrineden.md - Doory: https://everytownland.com/kerry/doory-71113.md - Foildrenagh: https://everytownland.com/kerry/foildrenagh.md - Inchiboy: https://everytownland.com/kerry/inchiboy.md - Inchinatinny: https://everytownland.com/kerry/inchinatinny.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/mastergeehy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/mastergeehy