Meenbannivane
Townland in the civil parish of Castleisland, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry; in Irish Mín Bhanbháin
- Area
- 594.9 ha
- 1,470 acres
- Land parcels
- 143
- registered freehold, median 8,582 m² (0.86 ha, 2.12 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
143 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenbannivane, from 40 m² to 497,335 m² (49.73 ha, 122.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 51 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 Meenbannivane 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
4 Sept 2025Conditional
Planning Permission to construct a new dwelling house, detached domestic garage, install Septic Tank & Percolation system, new front boundary entrance walls with all associated site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560780
30 Jul 2024Conditional
Retention Permission to a) Retain existing dwelling as constructed b) Retain existing home office/shed with open canopy area, as constructed c) Retain existing container on site And Planning Permission to d) Decommission the existing septic tank and percolation area and e) Install a new mechanical treatment unit and raised sand polishing filter
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460506
21 Nov 2023Conditional
Planning Permission for the erection of a dwelling house with a waste water treatment system and the carrying out of associated site works and services.
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360349
9 Jul 2021Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH EXISTING REAR SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AND CONSTRUCT NEW REAR AND SIDE EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (B) RETENTION PERMISSION FOR EXISTING DOMESTIC STORAGE SHEDS/OUTHOUSES (C) RETENTION PERMISSION FOR EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE SUBSTRUCTURE WORKS AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO COMPLETE CONSTRUCTION OF SAID DOMESTIC GARAGE, ALL WITH CONNECTIONS TO EXISTING SERVICES WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21779
22 Jun 2020N/a
ERECT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND THE CARRYING OUT OF ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Kerry County Council, 20541
14 Oct 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT A FORESTRY ENTRANCE ALONG WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 191056
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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
- KE023-010 Children's burial ground
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meenbannivane.
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 20 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 Meenbannivane.
- 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 Meenbannivane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Meenbannivane · Mín Bhanbháin
- Area
- 5,948,743 m² (594.87 ha, 1,469.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleisland, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Knocknagashel, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Knocknagashel electoral division: 733 people in 291 households; 82% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyduff, Dromadda Beg, Dromadda More, Knocknagashel East, Knocknagashel West, Tooreenard, Tooreenmore
- Placenames
- Meenbannivane 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.