Meanus

96 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meanus, from 36 m² to 50,257 m² (5.03 ha, 12.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Corca Dhuibhne Electoral Area Local Area Plan 2021-2027, Kerry · 52 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M4Built up Area (Built up area)
  Corca Dhuibhne Electoral Area Local Area Plan 2021-2027, Kerry · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New/Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Corca Dhuibhne Electoral Area Local Area Plan 2021-2027, Kerry · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Corca Dhuibhne Electoral Area Local Area Plan 2021-2027, Kerry · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Active Open Space (Active open space)
  Corca Dhuibhne Electoral Area Local Area Plan 2021-2027, Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 28 Nov 2025Conditional

  Planning Permission to construct a new extension to existing school with all associated site services at Meanus, Castlemaine, Co. Kerry.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561107

• 19 Jun 2024Conditional

  FULL PLANNING PERMISSION FOR PERMISSION TO A) REMOVE EXISTING MODULAR UNIT AND B) TO ERECT A NEW PRE-FABRICATED MODULAR UNIT TO BE USED FOR OFFICE SPACE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460397

• 22 May 2024N/a

  FULL PLANNING PERMISSION FOR PERMISSION TO A) REMOVE EXISTING MODULAR UNIT AND B) TO ERECT A NEW PRE-FABRICATED MODULAR UNIT TO BE USED FOR OFFICE SPACE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460313

• 19 May 2023Conditional

  (A) RETAIN THE DOMESTIC STORE AND GREENHOUSE PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED, (B) RETAIN THE EXISTING TIMBER GARDEN SHED, (C) RETAIN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF DWELLING, (D) RETAIN ATTACHED DOMESTIC STORE GARAGE TO THE GABLE OF DWELLING, AND WE APPLY FOR FULL PLANNING PERMISSION FOR PERMISSION TO COMPLETE THE DOMESTIC STORE AND GREENHOUSE TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23576

• 12 Sept 2022N/a

  (A) RETAIN THE DOMESTIC STORE AND GREEN ROOM PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED (B) RETAIN THE EXISTING TIMBER GARDEN SHED AND FULL PERMISSION TO COMPLETE THE DOMESTIC STORE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 22955

• 25 Jul 2022Conditional

  CARRY OUT WORKS TO A PROTECTED STRUCTURE, AS SET OUT BELOW. (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING TWO-STOREY NON-ORIGINAL EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE; (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION TOTHE WEST AND NORTH OF THE EXISTING STRUCTURE, FORMING TWO COURTYARDS AND COVERED PATHWAYS; (3) CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING SHED TO A HABITABLE ACCOMMODATION/GUESTROOM; (4) MISCELLANEOUS WORKS TO THE EXISTING PROTECTED STRUCTURE AS FOLLOWS: (A) REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING ROOF FINISH WITH NATURAL SLATE AND PROVISION OF REPLACEMENT RAINWATER GOODS (B) REMOVAL OF THE EXISTING CEMENTITIOUS RENDER AND REPLACEMENT WITH NEW NATURAL LIME RENDER; (C) REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING NON-ORIGINAL UPVC WINDOWS; (D) MODIFICATIONS TO THE NORTHERN ELEVATION, COMPRISING OF 1 NO NEW WINDOW OPE AT FIRST FLOOR (E) MODIFICATIONS TO THE EASTERN ELEVATION; COMPRISING OF THE ADDITION OF 1 NO NEW WINDOW OPE, 1 NO NEW DOOR OPE AND CONVERSION OF 1 NO EXISTING WINDOW INTO A DOOR OPE (F) MODIFICATION TO THE WESTERN ELEVATION, COMPRISING CONVERSION OF 2 NO. EXISTING WINDOW INTO 2 NO. DOOR OPES (G) ADDITION OF A ROOF LIGHT TO THE NORTHERN ELEVATION; (H) INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS COMPRISING THE REMOVAL OF 2 NO. SECTIONS OF WALLS/CHIMENY BREASTS TO FORM NEW INTERNAL OPES AT KITCHEN/DINING AREA. (5) EXTERNAL WORKS TO INCLUDE ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE, SITE DEVELOPMENT WORK, LANDSCAPING AND REPAIR WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22825

• 6 May 2020Refused

  CONSTRUCT A SHED FOR FARM MACHINERY, HAY AND STRAW STORAGE, AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 20412

• 24 Jan 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A GARDEN SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2047

• 9 Mar 2017Conditional

  RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES (B) BUILD A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO NORTH SIDE OF DWELLING (C) MAKE CHANGES TO ELEVATIONS OF THE EXISTING DWELLING (D) BUILD A GARDEN STORE TO SOUTH SIDE OF DWELLING (E) ADD A PORCH TO EXISTING FRONT DOOR (F) DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL NEW SEPTIC TANK WITH INTERMITTENT PEAT FILTER AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND (G) REMOVE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE AND CONSTRUCT A NEW ENTRANCE

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17203

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 Meanus.

Recorded monuments

• KE047-029003 Architectural fragment
  Description

  The medieval church and graveyard of Kiltallagh (Cill Tulach) is located in the townland of Gransha Lower, parish of Kiltallagh, diocese of Ardfert, barony of Trughanacmy. C. of I. church dedicated to St. Carthach stands in N quadrant of circular-shaped graveyard the N boundary of which forms the townland boundary with Meanus. Field to SW annotated 'Church Field' on 1841 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Graveyard entered off public road to S with second entrance leading from graveyard at NE towards Kiltallagh House located 137m to the NE. Cloghmacudda (KE047-028001-) 123m to E. In 1871 there was a reference to architectural fragments of the medieval church which stated that the medieval church site 'stood where the Protestant church now stands. There are some stones of the old building scatter about the graveyard, and one in the immediate vicinity, hollowed in the shape of an inverted cone, around people pay rounds. This is called Cloch-Mochaeda [KE047-028001-], or the stone of St. Carthage Mochaeda' (Cusack 1871, 453). One of two architectural fragments (KE047-029005-) belonging to the medieval church site (KE047-029001-). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 23 May 2022

Architectural heritage

• Store/warehouse, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of detached six-bay three-storey corn store, built c. 1860, with elliptical-headed integral carriage arch to west gable end and red brick dressings. Now ruinous. Originally pitched roof with rendered rubble stone built walls. Red brick arches and reveals to openings with stone sills and timber lintels internally with brick relieving arches.

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_110 (ZIP).

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

Name

Meanus

Area

429,075 m² (42.91 ha, 106.03 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltallagh, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Kiltallagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kiltallagh electoral division: 558 people in 221 households; 88% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Ballynamona Lower, Cloonalassan, Gransha Lower, Laharan

Placenames

Meanus 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.