Maulnagower
Maulnagower is a townland in the civil parish of Templenoe, barony of Dunkerron South, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Meall na nGabhar.
- Area
- 102.9 ha
- 254 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 132,245 m² (13.22 ha, 32.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maulnagower, from 2,102 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 341,724 m² (34.17 ha, 84.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Maulnagower 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Maulnagower 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Kerry) SAC 002173
Recorded monuments
- KE092-003 Standing stone
Description
Located in boggy pasture S of the Derreendarragh river, this heavy block-like stone stands 1.95m high and measures 1.32m wide and 1.1m thick at base; NW-SE. Part of its S face has spalled away relatively recently, the debris from it lying scattered near 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. 201. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013
- KE092-012 Hut site
Description
Situated in an area of forestry, this site, marked sheepfold on the second edition of the OS map, could not be located. 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. 1448. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Maulnagower.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Maulnagower, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Maulnagower.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Maulnagower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Maulnagower · Meall na nGabhar
- Area
- 1,028,799 m² (102.88 ha, 254.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templenoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkerron South
- Electoral division
- Dromore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 308 people lived in 120 households in the Dromore electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coomnakilla North, Coomnakilla South, Derreendarragh, Gowlane, Scarteen
- Placenames
- Maulnagower 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.