Muingaphuca
Muingaphuca is a townland in the civil parish of Killorglin, barony of Iveragh, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Moing an Phúca.
- Area
- 269.6 ha
- 666 acres
- Land parcels
- 223
- registered freehold, median 2,732 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 18
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
223 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muingaphuca, from 21 m² to 166,373 m² (16.64 ha, 41.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 57 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 Muingaphuca 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
12 Aug 2025Conditional
Retain existing garage as constructed
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560698
15 Apr 2025Conditional
Retention Permission to retain an existing domestic shed, and Permission to (a) demolish a section of wall, along with the flat roof of an existing rear annex to dwelling, (b) alter and renovate the existing dwelling, including elevational changes, (c) construct an extension to the rear of dwelling, (d) decommission existing wastewater treatment system, and install a new septic tank & soil polishing filter, and (e) all ancillary site works
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560293
16 Aug 2024Conditional
1. Permission to decommission existing septic tank and install an effluent treatment unit and polishing filter. 2. Retention Permission to retain existing house as constructed within revised site boundaries.
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460572
6 Jun 2024Conditional
TO RETAIN THE EXISTING COVERED HALLWAY AND STOREROOM. PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH TH EXISTING COVERED HALLWAY, STOREROOM AND SOME INTERNAL WALLS COMPRISING OF 10.40 SQMFLOOR AREA. PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH FLAT ROOF AND CHIMNEY STACK AND INSTALL A REPLACEMENT PITCHED ROOF AND CHIMNEY STACK, PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW FRONT PORCH COMPRISING OF 2.25 SQM FLOOR AREA AND PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24230
30 May 2024Conditional
1. Retention Permission to retain existing dwelling house as constructed within revised site boundaries; 2. Permission to construct an extension to the dwelling house involving raising the roof to allow for attic development; 3. Extend the existing house to the rear and 4. Decommission existing septic tank and install a new septic tank and percolation area.
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460342
4 Aug 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE C/W NEW SEPTIC TANK AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23880
24 Apr 2023Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH THE EXISTING ROOF AND PROPOSE A NEW ROOF WITH VELUX WINDOWS, (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO ALTER AND MODIFY THE FRONT DOOR AND WINDOW WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 23445
24 Feb 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW EXTENSION TO EXISTING SCHOOL WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission · Kerry County Council, 22198
23 Dec 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE SERVED BY A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211525
2 Dec 2021Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH EXISTING COMMERCIAL BUILDING (79SQ.M) (B) DECOMMISSION AND REMOVE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND SOAK-AWAY (C) CONSTRUCT A NEW COMMERCIAL WAREHOUSE UNIT (288 SQ.M) (D) INSTALL NEW SEPTIC TANK AND SECONDARY TREATMENT "PURAFLOW" SYSTEM OVER A SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND (E) UPGRADE EXISTING ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED
Permission · Kerry County Council, 211385
19 Dec 2019Conditional
RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AS CONSTRUCTED
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191305
31 May 2019Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (B) ERECT A SINGLE STOREY WITH ATTIC, TRADITIONAL STYLE DWELLING HOUSE AS REPLACEMENT HOUSE, (C) INSTALL NEW MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND (D) CARRY OUT ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ON SITE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19576
21 Feb 2018Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCT A TRADITIONAL STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING HOUSE WITH DETACHED GARAGE (2) INSTALL A MECHANICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18157
27 Jul 2017Conditional
ERECT A FRONT PORCH ONTO THE EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17734
27 Jun 2017N/a
(1) CONSTRUCT A TRADITIONAL STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING HOUSE WITH DETACHED GARAGE, (2) INSTALL A MECHANICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 17597
10 Apr 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO SOUTHERN SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN EXISTING DOMESTIC STORE / GARAGE CONSISTING OF HOME OFFICE / GYM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Kerry County Council, 17319
15 Mar 2017N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO SOUTHERN SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND RETENTION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC STORE/GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Kerry County Council, 17216
12 Jan 2017Conditional
FOR THE DEVELOPMENT WHICH WILL CONSIST OF THE EXTRACTION OF AGGREGATE IN A 14.38 HECTARE EXTENSION, TO AN EXISTING QUARRY, AND REMOVAL OF SAME UNPROCESSED AGGREGATE TO THE EXISTING QUARRY FOR PROCESSING. THE PROCESSING INFRASTRUCTURE WILL REMAIN IN THE EXISTING QUARRY, AND ONLY ONE EXCAVATOR AND ONE ARTICULATED DUMP TRUCK WILL WORK IN THE EXTENSION AREA, WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS PLANNING APPLICATION. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT AND AN APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT SCREENING REPORT ACCOMPANY THIS PLANNING APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 1714
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 Muingaphuca.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Muingaphuca.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Muingaphuca.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Muingaphuca, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_55 (ZIP).
- 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
- Muingaphuca, Caragh Lake8 sales
The townland
- Name
- Muingaphuca · Moing an Phúca
- Area
- 2,696,410 m² (269.64 ha, 666.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killorglin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iveragh
- Electoral division
- Caragh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 999 people lived in 375 households in the Caragh electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coomnafanida, Glannagilliagh, Rangue, Tullig Beg, Tullig More
- Placenames
- Muingaphuca 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.