Meentoges
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcummin, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry; in Irish Na Mínteoga
- Area
- 159.8 ha
- 395 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 8,478 m² (0.85 ha, 2.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meentoges, from 1,695 m² to 298,171 m² (29.82 ha, 73.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Meentoges 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
10 Mar 2026Conditional
Permission to (a) demolish rear extension, construct an extension and make elevational changes to existing dwelling house, provide ancillary services and areas, and (b) decommission existing septic tank and install a new effluent treatment tank and polishing filter
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660210
10 Mar 2026N/a
(a) Full Planning Permission to construct: 1. A Wastewater treatment system 2. A Steam boiler/Container And (b) Retention Permission to retain: 1. Elevational Changes to the existing unit 2. Office area within existing unit. 3. Underground storage tanks and all associated site services.
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660211
24 Mar 2025Conditional
Permission to demolish rear extension, construct an extension and make elevational changes to existing dwelling house, provide ancillary services and areas and Permission to decommission existing septic tank and install a new effluent treatment tank and polishing filter
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560212
12 Feb 2025Conditional
Permission to construct an extension to include a toilet and SET (Special Education Teaching) Classroom
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560075
6 Apr 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO INCLUDE A TOILET AND SET (SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHING) CLASSROOM
Permission · Kerry County Council, 23374
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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meentoges.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meentoges.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Meentoges.
- 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 Meentoges with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Meentoges · Na Mínteoga
- Area
- 1,598,410 m² (159.84 ha, 394.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcummin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Rathmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathmore electoral division: 1,941 people in 735 households; 67% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghbeg, Annaghilymore, Banard, Gullaun West, Knockdoorah, Meennagishagh, Stagmount
- Placenames
- Meentoges 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.