Oolagh East

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oolagh East, from 251 m² to 1,291,149 m² (129.11 ha, 319.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Oolagh East 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 Nov 2025Refused

  (a) retain the change of use of the domestic garage on site to living accommodation ancillary to Bun na Spéire dwelling on site (b) retain sauna on site (c) retain the continued use of the property for short-term letting via platforms such as Airbnb and Booking.com. The property includes a main lakehouse, a separate cottage, and associated amenities.

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2561088

• 3 Feb 2023Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT EXTENSION ONTO REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW STAIRCASE TO THE FRONT AND SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND MODIFY AND ALTER THE EXISTING LAYOUT INTERNALLY, (C) CONSTRUCT A NEW DORMER WINDOW WITH VELUX ON THE EXISTING ROOF, (D) DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND THE INSTALLATION OF NEW PROPOSED WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23100

• 3 Jul 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND SANDCEL POLISHING FILTER

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 19691

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

• KE064-012 Field boundary
  Description

  This pre-bog wall is located near the edge of an extensive tract of bog, c. 270m NE of Lough Cummernamuck. It is 36m long, extending from a peat-face at NW to another at SE. The peat has largely been cut away to .5m below the level of the the top of the wall. It is apparently of drystone construction and is c. 1m wide. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 61. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE064-024001 Hut site
  Description

  In rough pasture, on a N-facing slope. The remains of an oval hut site (5.5m N-S; 3.6m E-W) defined by a collapsed, moss-covered, drystone wall (T 0.65m; H 0.5m) which protrudes above the surface of shallow bog. Large stones were noted in the lower courses of the drystone wall. Rubble is embedded in the level interior and along the perimeter of the hut site externally. There is a collapsed entrance (Wth c. 0.5m) at NW. A relict field boundary (KE064-024002-) abuts the hut site at N and S. 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

• KE064-024002 Field boundary
  Description

  In rough pasture, on a N-facing slope. The remains of a stone field wall (T 0.6m; H 0.5m) protrude above the surface of shallow bog and extend (L c. 40m) to the N from a hut site (KE064-024001-) before curving to the W for c. 45m. A shorter stretch of wall extends S of the hut site for c. 16m. 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

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Oolagh East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Oolagh East · Abhlach Thoir

Area

4,349,605 m² (434.96 ha, 1,074.81 acres)

Civil parish

Knockane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron North

Electoral division

Maum, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Maum electoral division: 265 people in 106 households; 90% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahane, Coomlettra, Coomnafanida, Glannagilliagh, Gortloughra, Gortrelig, Goulnacappy and Coornagrena, Oolagh West

Placenames

Oolagh East 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.