Meelick
Townland in the civil parish of Kilgarvan, barony of Glanarought, Co. Kerry; in Irish Míleac
- Area
- 211.6 ha
- 523 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 2,538 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meelick, from 63 m² to 697,944 m² (69.79 ha, 172.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Meelick 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
8 May 2025Conditional
DEMOLISH FATTENER HOUSE 18 AND REBUILD WITH A SIMILAR SIZE MODERN FATTENER HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SLURRY STORAGE TO ENSURE CONTINUING COMPLIANCE WITH ANIMAL SPACE REQUIREMENTS AND WELFARE WHILE MAINTAINING EXISTING PIG NUMBERS. THIS APPLICATION RELATES TO A DEVELOPMENT WHICH IS FOR THE PURPOSES OF AN ACTIVITY REQUIRING AN INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS LICENCE FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (P0708-02)
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560379
12 Jun 2024Conditional
(a) Retention Permission for existing single storey dwelling house and outbuildings as constructed within revised site boundaries and (b) Permission to extend existing dwelling house to comprise of a single storey extension to the southern side and new single storey garage building with roofed link connecting to the dwelling house on the northern side including all necessary modifications to the dwelling house to facilitate the construction of the extensions, demolition of existing sunroom and existing outbuildings, removal of existing waste water treatment system, installation of new waste water treatment system with sand polishing filter and all necessary ancillary services works and site works.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460375
17 Sept 2019Conditional
PERMISSION FOR A WASTE FACILITY FOR THE IMPORTATION OF WASTE MATERIAL COMPRISING OF SOIL & STONE (17 05 04) AND CONCRETE (17 01 01) TO RAISE AN AGRICULTURAL FIELD IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT OF THE FIELD. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT HAS BEEN SUBMITTED WITH THE APPLICATION
Permission · Kerry County Council, 19967
13 Mar 2019Conditional
DEMOLISH (1) OLD EXISTING LIVESTOCK HOUSES AND (2) CONSTRUCT A NEW LIVESTOCK HOUSE WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANK
Permission · Kerry County Council, 19246
31 Jan 2019N/a
(1) DEMOLISH EXISTING LIVESTOCK HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCT 3 BAY SLATTED LIVESTOCK HOUSE WITH UNDERGROUND 2.4M DEEP TANK ON MY LAND
Permission · Kerry County Council, 1976
17 Jan 2017Conditional
DEMOLISH A WEANER STAGE 2 HOUSE AND TO CONSTRUCT 1 NEW FARROWING ROOM, 1 NEW WEANER STAGE 1 HOUSE AND 1 NEW WEANER STAGE 2 HOUSE ALL TO COMPLY WITH SPACE REQUIREMENTS FOR EXISTING PIG NUMBERS.THIS APPLICATION RELATES TO A DEVELOPMENT WHICH IS FOR THE PURPOSES OF AN ACTIVITY REQUIRING AN INTEGRATED POLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL (IPCC) LICENCE UNDER PART 1V OF THE ENVIORMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (LICENCING) REGULATIONS 1994 TO 2008
Permission · Kerry County Council, 1724
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Meelick.
Recorded monuments
- KE085-009 Enclosure
Description
In rough peaty pasture, overlooking the valley of the Roughty River to the S and the head of Kenmare Bay to the W. A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) is visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP, W 116, W 138), taken in 1973. This possible enclosure is not visible at ground level. Some land reclamation has taken place in this area. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meelick.
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
- 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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Meelick.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Meelick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Meelick · Míleac
- Area
- 2,116,122 m² (211.61 ha, 522.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgarvan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glanarought
- Electoral division
- Kilgarvan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilgarvan electoral division: 788 people in 310 households; 74% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Churchground, Coologes, Derrincullig, Gortaloughane, Gortnaboul, Kilpadder, Mangerton, Slaght
- Placenames
- Meelick 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.