Mweevuck

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mweevuck, from 157 m² to 397,526 m² (39.75 ha, 98.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Mweevuck 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.

• 25 Feb 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN EASY FEED SLATTED HOUSE FOR CATTLE, COMPLETE WITH UNDERGROUND SLATTED SLURRY TANKS, CREEP AREA, CATTLE CRUSH, SILAGE PIT WALL AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 20175

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cashen River Estuary 001340

Recorded monuments

• KE009-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 42m N-S, 41.4m E-W Situated in low-lying pastureland NE of KE009-041----, this univallate rath is touched at three points to the NW, E and SE by fieldbanks. The site consists of a circular area enclosed by a low earthen bank c5m wide and 1.6m high above the surrounding land and on average 1m above the interior. A slight trace of an external fosse is to be noted SE through E to ENE; it is 1.9m wide and .3m deep. The interior is at much the same level as the surrounding land, and access is gained by a 5m wide gap to the SE. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 369. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE009-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 30m N-S, 31m E-W Lisnadarree/Lios na Daraí (ringfort of the oak). This circular univallate rath is enclosed by an earthen bank that rises to an average of 1.6m above the fosse and 1.1m above the interior. The U shaped external fosse is 2m-3m wide and 1m deep. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 368. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE009-042 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diameter 26.6m N-S, 29m E-W Situated E of 'Lisnadarree' (Lios na Daraí, ringfort of the oak) (368), this univallate cahir consists of a sub-circular area enclosed by a low bank, which is fairly overgrown. The enclosing bank is 4m wide at the base and rises to 1m above the interior and 1.4m above the external ground level. An exterior fosse is barely distinguishable from the NE through E to SE, where it is 1.6m wide and .5m deep. The interior is at much the same level as the surrounding land and three breaks provide access, though the 3m wide gap to the SW would appear to be the main one. In the E sector of the interior is an oblong mound (KE009-042001-), 3.5m N-S, 1.6m E-W and .6m high. SW of this, at a distance of 11 m, is a smaller mound (KE009-042002-), 1.4m x 1.4m. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 809. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE009-042001 Mound
  Description

  Situated E of 'Lisnadarree' (Lios na Daraí, ringfort of the oak) univallate cahir KE009-042---- consists of a sub-circular area enclosed by a low bank, which is fairly overgrown. In the E sector of the interior is an oblong mound (KE009-042001-), 3.5m N-S, 1.6m E-W and .6m high. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 809. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE009-042002 Mound
  Description

  Situated E of 'Lisnadarree' (Lios na Daraí, ringfort of the oak) univallate cahir KE009-042---- consists of a sub-circular area enclosed by a low bank, which is fairly overgrown. In the E sector of the interior is an oblong mound (KE009-042001-). SW of this, at a distance of 11 m, is a smaller mound (KE009-042002-), 1.4m x 1.4m. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 809. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE009-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 30m This site which lies two fields SE of KE009-040---- is not marked on any edition of the OS maps. It consists of a circular area enclosed by a very low earthen bank c 10m wide and about .6m high. A slight external fosse c 2m wide and .5m deep is to be noted N through E to S. Two openings exist: one to the W which is 1.8m wide and one to the E, 2.6m wide. The interior is at much the same level as the surrounding land. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 370. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE010-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Lissagillagill/Lios a giolla gill (fort of the white servant). Marked on the 1841-42 OS map as a circular enclosure, this site does not appear on the later edition. No surface trace of this site survives 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. 414. 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 Mweevuck.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Mweevuck, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mweevuck.

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.

No address of the register names Mweevuck with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Mweevuck

Area

808,200 m² (80.82 ha, 199.71 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyconry, and its townlands

Barony

Iraghticonnor

Electoral division

Ballyconry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

444 people lived in 162 households in the Ballyconry electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahascra, Ballyconry, Kilteean, Mweevoo

Placenames

Mweevuck 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.