Muckenagh
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltomy, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish Muicineach
- Area
- 247.9 ha
- 613 acres
- Land parcels
- 97
- registered freehold, median 7,136 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
97 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muckenagh, from 306 m² to 398,627 m² (39.86 ha, 98.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Muckenagh 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
3 Jun 2026Refused
full planning permission to build a private shed on site
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660488
24 Mar 2026N/a
Planning permission to construct an easy feed slatted house for cattle, complete with underground slatted slurry tanks, barriers, canopy, cattle crush, penning, ancillary concrete, Silage base , apron, effluent channels and all associated ancillary site works at
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660256
14 Dec 2021Refused
SEEKING A TEN - YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION AND 35 YEAR OPERATIONAL LIFE FROM THE DATE OF COMMISSION OF THE WIND FARM CONSTRUCTION OF 7 NO. WIND TURBINES WITH THE FOLLOWING MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM PARAMETERS OVERALL GROUND TO BLADE TIP HEIGHT IN THE RANGE OF 170M MAXIMUM TO 169.5M MINIMUM, HUB HEIGHT OF 95M, ROTOR DIAMETER IN THE RANGE OF 150M MAXIMUM TO 149M MINIMUM, TURBINE HARDSTAND AREAS, PROVISION OF 1 NO. PERMANENT METEORLOGICAL MAST WITH A HEIGHT OF 110 METRES, UPGRADE OF EXISTING ROADS AND ACCESS JUNCTIONS, PROVISION OF NEW SITE ENTRANCES, ROADS AND HARDSTAND AREAS, 2 NO. TEMPORARY PEAT STORAGE AREAS, 2 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUNDS, 1 NO. BORROW PIT, ALL SITE DRAINAGE WORKS, 1 NO. ONSITE 38KV SUBSTATION, CONTROL BUILDING AND PLANT, ASSOCIATED SECURITY FENCING AND WASTE WATER HOLDING TANK, ALL ASSOCIATED UNDERGOROUND ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATION CABLING CONNECTING THE TURBINES TO THE PROPOSED ON - SITE SUBSTATION, CONNECTION OF THE PROPOSED 38KV ON - SITE SUBSTATION VIA UNDERGROUND CABLE IN THE PUBLIC ROAD TO THE ENTRANCE OF THE EXISTING CLAHANE 110KV SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLNAD OF PALLAS, ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS, APPARATUS AND SIGNAGE. THE APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT (NIS) AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR)
Permission · Kerry County Council, 211441
25 Feb 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING CUBLICLE HOUSE WITH AN EASY FEED SLATTED AREA, NEW CUBICLE AREA FOR COWS, COMPLETE WITH UNDERGROUND SLATTED SLURRY TANK EXTENDING INTO THE DAIRY HOLDING AREA ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Retention · Kerry County Council, 20178
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
Recorded monuments
- KE015-038 Ringfort - rath
Description
This circular enclosure lies NE of KE015-045---- and appears on the 1841-42 and 1916 OS maps. However, on the later edition a bohareen runs through it on the N and E side. This site is now levelled and only a tiny section of the N bank, incorporated into a fieldbank, survives. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 588. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE015-039 Ringfort - rath
Description
This circular enclosure appears on the 1841-42 and 1916 OS maps. No surface trace survives today and a house now occupies the site. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 589. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE015-045 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diameter 32.7m NW-SE This circular univallate rath is situated in a corner of a very marshy field. It consists of a circular area enclosed by a bank and exterior fosse. The enclosing earthen bank is c 4m wide at the base and rises to .6m high externally and .4m internally. The external fosse encloses the whole site, except to the SE and NW, and is 2.6m wide and .4m deep. The entrance possibly lies to the E. It was perhaps stone lined, as numerous stones are visible. This site since it was visited in 1990 for a preliminary inspection has been completely ploughed out. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 587. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Muckenagh.
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 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 Muckenagh.
- 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 Muckenagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Muckenagh · Muicineach
- Area
- 2,479,406 m² (247.94 ha, 612.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltomy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Kiltomy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kiltomy electoral division: 425 people in 164 households; 87% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghabeg East, Ballynagare, Clogher, Cloonlogher, Coolaruane, Glanerdalliv, Kiltomy, Lisnagoneeny, Sleveen
- Placenames
- Muckenagh 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.