Moohane
Townland in the civil parish of Killehenny, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Múchán
- Area
- 51.7 ha
- 128 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 17,339 m² (1.73 ha, 4.28 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moohane, from 830 m² to 154,106 m² (15.41 ha, 38.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Moohane 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
23 Apr 2025Refused
ERECT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH MAINS WATER CONNECTION, INSTALL A WASTEWATER TREATMENT PUMPED UNIT AND TERTIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2597
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 Moohane.
Recorded monuments
- KE004-017 Fulacht fia
Description
A small stream running in a NNE-SSW direction cuts the western sector of this site, thus revealing some burnt stones. It is roughly horseshoe-shaped, measuring 6.1m E-W and 4m N-S. The landowner J. Walsh informed us that several years ago he had ploughed it into its present shape. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 41. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013
- KE004-026 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diameter c 20m N-S Situated in the middle of a large pastoral field, this site is now much levelled and has been cut to the W by a fieldbank running NE-SE and to the N by one running NW-SW. All that remains today is a low, wide semi-circular earthen bank that measures .7m externally and .4m above the interior. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 243. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE004-036 Fulacht fia
Description
While this field was being ploughed and drained a mound of burnt stones was removed, according to the landowner Mr Walsh. Only isolated burnt stones can be seen today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 42. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moohane.
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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moohane.
- 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 Moohane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Moohane · An Múchán
- Area
- 516,775 m² (51.68 ha, 127.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killehenny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Electoral division
- Killehenny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killehenny electoral division: 2,064 people in 894 households; 66% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 30% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Doon East, Dromin, Farranpierce, Gortnaskeha
- Placenames
- Moohane 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.