Mounthenry
Mounthenry is a townland in the civil parish of Kilnanare, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry.
- Area
- 54.6 ha
- 135 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 21,329 m² (2.13 ha, 5.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mounthenry, from 1,367 m² to 124,453 m² (12.45 ha, 30.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Mounthenry 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
18 Sept 2025Conditional
(a) Planning permission to construct Granny flat extension to front, side, and rear of existing dwelling house and all internal alterations (b) Permission to extend the garage/storage at rear with all associated site works at Mounthenry Firies Killarney, Co kerry.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560839
13 Aug 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND SANDCEL POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19852
24 May 2019Conditional
RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND GARDEN SHED ALL AS CONSTRUCTED, AND ALL WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19545
13 Jun 2018Conditional
ERECT NEW DWELLING AND GARAGE SERVED BY WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18571
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 Mounthenry.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mounthenry.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mounthenry.
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
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mounthenry.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Mounthenry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Mounthenry
- Area
- 545,533 m² (54.55 ha, 134.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnanare, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Kilnanare, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,052 people lived in 362 households in the Kilnanare electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardywanig, Ballybrack, Rath Beg, Rusheen
- Placenames
- Mounthenry 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.