Poulagower

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Poulagower, from 5,328,929 m² (532.89 ha, 1,316.81 acres) to 5,328,929 m² (532.89 ha, 1,316.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 4 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 Poulagower 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Poulagower in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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
• Special Protection Area: Killarney National Park SPA 004038
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE074-010 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on blanket bog, on the W bank of a river in Esknamucky Glen. An oval enclosure (c. 50m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) is visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, V 293-2). This enclosure is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE084-036 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) is visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, V 294-2). This enclosure is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE084-037 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough pasture, on a S-facing slope. A subrectangular area (32m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by a roughly built, drystone wall (T c. 1m; H 0.8m). There are some loose stones scattered in the interior which is covered in ferns and slopes down to S. A series of N-S cultivation ridges cross the interior. There is a possible entrance (Wth 0.6m) at SW. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE084-059001 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough pasture, at the S edge of a level break on a S-facing slope. A subrectangular area (32m N-S; 21m E-W) defined by a partly collapsed drystone wall (T 0.8m; H 1.2m). Loose stones and small boulders are scattered in the overgrown interior. There are traces of cultivation ridges in the interior also. A hut site (KE084-059004-) internally abuts the E wall. There is an entrance gap (Wth 0.8m) in the W wall. A stream runs along the outside of the N wall. There is a hut site (KE084-059002-) c. 30m to the WSW. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE084-059002 Hut site
  Description

  In rough pasture, at the S edge of a level break on a S-facing slope. The remains of a rectangular hut (7.7m N-S; 3.2m E-W) defined by a partly collapsed, roughly-built drystone wall (T 0.6m; H 1.6m) which survives best at N and S. The level interior is heavily overgrown with ferns. There is an entrance (Wth 0.8m) in the centre of the W wall. The walls are covered in moss and are partly grassed over. There is an enclosure (KE084-059001-) c. 30m to the ENE and a hut site (KE084-059003-) c. 45m to the W. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE084-059003 Hut site
  Description

  In rough pasture, on the S edge of a level break in a S-facing slope. The remains of a rectangular hut (8m N-S; 4m E-W) defined by a partly collapsed, clay-mortared stone wall (T 0.8m; H 1.4m). The wall is built of rough stones and the clay mortar has been washed out of the internal and external wall faces. The interior is heavily overgrown with ferns. There is an entrance (Wth 0.9m) in the centre of the E wall. Another hut site (KE084-059002-) is c. 45m to the E. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE084-059004 Hut site
  Description

  Within an enclosure (KE084-059001-). The remains of a rectangular hut (6m N-S; 3m E-W) defined by a drystone wall (T 0.6m; H 1m) which internally abuts the E wall of the enclosure. There is an entrance at W. An adjacent N-S wall (L c. 5m) projects S of the external SW corner of the hut. 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 Poulagower.

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 Poulagower, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Poulagower

Area

5,326,025 m² (532.6 ha, 1,316.09 acres)

Civil parish

Killarney, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Muckross, the unit of the census

Census 2022

881 people lived in 229 households in the Muckross electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cores, Cummeenduvasig, Gortroe, Ullauns

Placenames

Poulagower 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.