Monument

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monument, from 36 m² to 254,379 m² (25.44 ha, 62.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M4Built up area
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space, Park (Open space, park)
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 28 Apr 2026Refused

  Retention Permission to (a) retain existing elevation changes to existing dwelling , also Full Planning Permission to (a) remove existing roof and replace with new 'A' roof (b) Permission for new 1st floor living accommodation and all associated site works

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660363

• 1 Dec 2021Refused

  ERECT A 24M HIGH LATTICE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAE, DISHES AND ASSOCIATED TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT, ALL ENCLOSED IN SECURITY FENCING

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 211376

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 Monument.

Recorded monuments

• KE016-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 24m N-S This site is situated in the field behind the Presentation Convent in Lixnaw. This univallate rath is marked on the 1841-42 and 1914-15 OS maps; on the earlier edition a fieldbank runs along the W sector in a NNW-SSE direction. This rath has been almost ploughed out and all that remains is a low, wide earthen bank which can be traced from the N through E to S. The bank is 8m-12m wide at the base and .4m high. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 646. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE016-014001 Church
  Description

  Kilbinane Church (site of). The church of St Benignus originally occupied the summit of a round hill and the townland was called after it. However, no trace of this church survives. In 1690 William Fitzmaurice (1663-1697), 20th Lord Kerry, erected an imposing mausoleum on this site as a burial monument for his family. The tower (KE016-014002-) was 12m high and 30m in circumference and the walls 1m thick. The tower contained four semi-circular windows. The tomb was circular in shape, c 4.5m in diameter and had a flat stone roof. The tomb lay directly under the tower, so the tomb's roof was the tower's floor. The tower was protected by a wall 3.5m high. William died in 1697 and according to tradition was buried here, as were his father and son. The coffin was made of lead and was desecrated by 'Moonlighters for the making of ammunition during the land war. It was demolished by the County Council for quarrying purposes in 1962 and no surface trace of it can be seen today' (O'Ruane). This townland was originally called Kilbinane but was renamed after Fitzmaurice's burial monument. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 955. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE016-014002 Monumental structure
  Description

  The tower (KE016-014002-) was 12m high and 30m in circumference and the walls 1m thick. The tower contained four semi-circular windows. The tomb was circular in shape, c 4.5m in diameter and had a flat stone roof. The tomb lay directly under the tower, so the tomb's roof was the tower's floor. The tower was protected by a wall 3.5m high. William died in 1697 and according to tradition was buried here, as were his father and son. The coffin was made of lead and was desecrated by 'Moonlighters for the making of ammunition during the land war. It was demolished by the County Council for quarrying purposes in 1962 and no surface trace of it can be seen today' (O'Ruane). This townland was originally called Kilbinane but was renamed after Fitzmaurice's burial monument. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 955. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

Architectural heritage

• Saint Michael's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding ten-bay single- and double-height Romanesque style Roman Catholic church, dated 1865, designed by J.J. McCarthy. Comprising ten-bay double-height nave with ten-bay single-storey lean-to aisles to north and to south elevations, single-bay single-storey sacristy to south elevation, rose window over entrance bay to west gable end and single-bay single-stage engaged circular turret to south-west corner on a square base having needle spire. Renovated and extended to south-west in 1963 with single-bay single-storey limestone-built chapel. Pitched artificial slate roofs, with gable parapets to sacristy, and cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Rock-faced random limestone walls with smooth limestone dressings. Corbel table to base of circular tower having ashlar conical roof. Round-headed openings, limestone surrounds to clerestory windows and to west rose window, replacement concrete surrounds to aisle windows with exposed aggregate. Door surround with columns, carving of St Michael in tympanum and double-leaf boarded doors. Nave and two aisles separated by round-headed arcades to interior with limestone archivolts on limestone columns with foliate capitals. Exposed trusses and compartmented ceilings. Mosaic tiling to chancel walls at low level. West gallery. Chancel reordered. Burial ground to site with group of cut-stone Celtic Cross style grave markers, c. 1900. Gateway, built c. 1865, to west comprising four limestone ashlar circular piers with cast-iron gates and railings. Lych gate, built c. 1865, to west comprising limestone ashlar piers with round-headed opening to centre having gable over with Celtic Cross style finial to apex. Four circular limestone ashlar gateposts flanked by curved rubble walls with cast-iron gates and railings, partly replaced in steel.

• FitzMaurice Monument, monument, 1690–1695 · Regional interest
  Description

  Site of freestanding single-bay two-stage tower, built 1692, on a circular plan. Demolished, 1962, retaining trigonometrical point.

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

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Monument.

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

Name

Monument

Area

420,989 m² (42.1 ha, 104.03 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcaragh, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Lixnaw, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lixnaw electoral division: 1,134 people in 424 households; 67% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintogher, Ballynageragh, Clogher, Farrandeen, Lixnaw

Placenames

Monument 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.