Oldforge

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oldforge, from 310 m² to 103,378 m² (10.34 ha, 25.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Oldforge 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.

• 4 Dec 2025N/a

  Invalid: (A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION; (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE-AND-A-HALF STOREY EXTENSION; (C) ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING LANDSCAPING AND PARKING AREA

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561129

• 4 Dec 2025Conditional

  Construct a dwelling house, garage, ancillary services and areas served by a septic tank and polishing filter

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561130

• 11 Feb 2022Conditional

  (A) RETAIN 1) PERIMETER BLOCK WALLS AND PILLARS TO THE EASTERN AND WESTERN SIDE OF THE SITE, 2) INTERNAL BLOCK WALLS AND PILLARS WITHIN THE SITE, 3) SECURITY GATE TO THE NORTHERN SIDE OF THE SITE AND 4) METAL STORAGE CONTAINER (B) PLANNING PERMISSION FOR (1) AN AUTHORISED TREATMENT FACILITY FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF END OF LIFE VEHICLES AND THEIR PARTS AND ASSOCIATED WORKS, 2) DRAINAGE WORKS INCLUDING THE INSTALLATION OF A CLASS 1 FULL RETENTION OIL INTERCEPTOR, 3) THE TEMPORARY STORAGE OF CRASHED AND IMMOBILISED VEHICLES AND END OF LIFE VEHICLES, 4) THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 2M HIGH BOUNDARY WALL WITH 2.2.M PILLARS TO THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF THE SITE, 5) THE TEMPORARY STORAGE OF FERROUS/NON FERROUS METALS AND VEHICLE BATTERIES 6) REPLACEMENT OF A WINDOW WITH A DOOR AND WINDOW TO THE NORTHERN FACADE OF THE COMMERCIAL GARAGE 7) CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC WATER MAINS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES 8) THE PERMANENT CLOSURE OF THE ENTRANCE ONTO THE N22. THE APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN NIS

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 22139

• 3 May 2019Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING CONSTRUCTED PORCH TO FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A DORMER EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19470

• 26 Mar 2019N/a

  1) A DORMER EXTENSION TO THE REAR AND 2) A PORCH EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF THE DWELLING AND 3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 19307

• 18 Jan 2019Conditional

  CONTINUE USE AND OPERATION OF THE EXISTING SAND PIT PERMITTED UNDER PLAN REG. REF . NO. 1910/98(ABP REF. NO. PL08.110268), WITH MINOR REVISIONS TO THE PERMITTED EXTRACTION AREA ALONG THE SOUTHEASTERN BOUNDARY, AND THE INSTALLATION OF A WHEELWASH ALL WITHIN AN APPLICATION AREA OF C. 35. HA. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR)

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 1924

• 24 Jan 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS& FOR PERMISION FOR RETENTION OF A STONE WALL ALONG THE WESTERN BOUNDARY & METAL RAILINGS AT OTHER LOCATIONS & RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 1748

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE067-055 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture, c. 250m N of the Flesk River. This possible rath is not visible at ground level. It is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. On the 1893-4 OS 6-inch map the N arc has been truncated making the rath D-shaped. The arc may have been removed during the construction of the Killarney and Tralee branch of the Great Southern and Western Railway, which lies c. 20m to the N. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Oldforge.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_282 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Oldforge

Area

600,699 m² (60.07 ha, 148.44 acres)

Civil parish

Killarney, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Brewsterfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Brewsterfield electoral division: 805 people in 281 households; 89% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrigeencullia, Cloghane, Gortahoosh, Minish, Tullaha

Placenames

Oldforge 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.