Mucksna

141 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mucksna, from 9 m² to 1,240,701 m² (124.07 ha, 306.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Mucksna 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.

• 15 Apr 2026Conditional

  Retention Permission to Retain Extension to Rear of House

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660328

• 22 Apr 2022Conditional

  INCLUDE MODIFICATIONS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO OUR DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22431

• 13 Oct 2021Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT 4 NO. GLAMPING PODS, PARKING SPACES, AN ACCESS FOOTPATH, ALL NECESSARY LANDSCAPING AND SITE WORKS AND (B) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER TO SERVE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 211167

• 3 Aug 2021Conditional

  (A) RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED TWO EXTENSIONS AND VARIOUS ELEVATIONAL CHANGES MADE TO THE DWELLING HOUSE, (B) PERMISSION TO RETAIN AS CONSTRUCED A GARDEN SHED, AND (C) PERMISSION TO RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED THE SITE ENTRANCE

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21894

• 31 Jan 2019Conditional

  (A) RETAIN ELEVATIONAL CHANGES MADE TO THE EXTENSION TO THE DWELLING HOUSE GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 05/1494, (B) PERMISSSION TO CHANGETHE USE OF THE EXTENSION TO THE DWELLING HOUSE GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 05/1494 TO A SEPARATE/INDEPENDENT DWELLING HOUSE, (C) PERMISSION TO INSTALL A FRONT ENTRANCE DOOR, WINDOW AND OVERHEAD CANOPY AT THE FRONT OF THE PROPOSED SEPARATE/INDEPENDENT DWELLING HOUSE AND (D) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND THE PROPOSED DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 1977

• 31 Jul 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE. PERMISSION IS FURTHER SOUGHT FOR THE INSTALLATION OF A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT WITH AN INTERMITTENT FILTER AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND FOR ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18758

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Mucksna Wood SAC 001371
• Special Area of Conservation: Kenmare River SAC 002158
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Roughty River Estuary 002092
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mucksna Wood 001371

Recorded monuments

• KE093-034 Standing stone
  Description

  In woodland, on a N-facing slope overlooking Kenmare Bay. There are no visible remains of the standing stones which are named 'Gallauns' on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE093-048 Standing stone
  Description

  In rough pasture, on the N-facing lower slopes of Mucksna Mountain, overlooking Kenmare Bay to the N. There are no visible remains of this stone which was indicated on the 1846 and 1895 OS 6-inch maps. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Riversdale House, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey triple-gable-fronted house, built c. 1880, on a U-shaped plan with five-bay two-storey return to rear to south-west, two-bay two-storey return to rear to south-east and two-bay single-storey wing at right angles to south. Possibly in use as ecclesiastical residence, pre-1968, now in use as hotel. Renovated and extended in latter part of twentieth century with ten-bay single-storey flat-roofed glazed wing added along north elevation. Extended to west in late twentieth century, comprising four-bay two-storey over part-raised basement block with half-dormer attic having series of full-height gabled box bay windows to accommodate use as hotel. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and having decorative bargeboards to gables. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Paired four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows to return. Replacement windows to remaining openings. Surrounded by numerous additions c. 1965-95. Landscaped gardens to north and east along Kenmare river.

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).

• Mucksna, Kenmare5 sales

Name

Mucksna · Mucshnámh

Area

2,843,199 m² (284.32 ha, 702.57 acres)

Civil parish

Kenmare, and its townlands

Barony

Glanarought

Electoral division

Kenmare, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygriffin, Kenmare Old, Killaha East, Rusheens

Placenames

Mucksna on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.