Poulnamuck
Townland in the civil parish of Killarney, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry; in Irish Poll na Muc
- Area
- 28 ha
- 69 acres
- Land parcels
- 117
- registered freehold, median 741 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 39
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
117 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Poulnamuck, from 5 m² to 17,556 m² (1.76 ha, 4.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Kerry County Development Plan 2022-2028, Kerry · 79 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C5Tourism & related (Tourism and related)
Kerry County Development Plan 2022-2028, Kerry · 43 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Mixed/general 'green' /recreation/conservation, other (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Kerry County Development Plan 2022-2028, Kerry · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Kerry County Development Plan 2022-2028, Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New/proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
Kerry County Development Plan 2022-2028, Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Jun 2026N/a
construct an extension to the existing hotel, more particularly 1) Construct 27 nr ensuite bedrooms, 2) Construct new gymnasium, 3) Construct passenger lift, addition corridors and lobbies, 2 nr additional stair cores, 4) Construct additional carparking c/w SUDs drainage system and all utility upgrades, all in accordance with plans and particulars submitted
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660588
3 Jun 2026Conditional
Permission to construct a part one storey and part 2 storey dwelling house with detached domestic garage and all ancillary site development works and site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660492
19 May 2026Conditional
retain existing dwelling within revised site boundaries
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660435
22 Apr 2026Conditional
Permission to (a) demolish existing dwelling house and garage, (b) construct 3 No. 1 Bedroom Apartments, 2 No. 2 Bedroom Apartments and 1 No. 3 Bedroom Apartment, and (c) construct new site entrance, parking, ancillary services & areas
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660345
31 May 2024Conditional
(1) RETENTION PLANNING PERMISSION (A) RETAIN IN FILL AREA OF EXTERNAL COURTYARD FORMING A STUDY/PLAYROOM AT UPPER GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND ASSSOCIATED ELEVATIONAL CHANGES, (B) RETAIN GRANNY FLAT ANCILLARY TO THE DWELLING HOUSE IN LIEU OF BASEMENT STORAGE AREA AT LOWER GROUND FLOOR/BASEMENT LEVEL, (C) RETAIN ELEVATIONAL CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH WINDOWS TO GARAGE AT LOWER GROUND FLOOR /BASEMENT LEVEL, (D) RETAIN ADDITIONAL GATE ENTRANCE TO SITE FOR SERVICING OF GARDEN AND (2) PLANNING PERMISSION TO DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL A NEW MECHANICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM AND RAISED SAND POLISHING FILTER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24224
6 Feb 2024Conditional
TO (A) RETAIN EXTENSION INCLUDING INTERNAL AND ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF NO 14/205494, (B) RETAIN SHED AS CONSTRUCTED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2443
21 Dec 2023Conditional
Permission to: - (a) demolish existing dwelling house and garage (b) construct 6 No. 2 Bedroom Apartments and 1 No. 3 Bedroom Apartment (c) construct new site entrance, parking, ancillary services & areas
Permission, 4 homes · Kerry County Council, 2360444
21 Nov 2023Conditional
Planning Permission to construct an outdoor covered seating area pergola structure adjacent to the Main Hotel Entrance all at the Gleneagle Hotel, Muckross Rd, Poulnamuck (townland), Killarney, Co. Kerry.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2360348
2 Nov 2023Conditional
Retention Permission to retain select hotel signage as erected and Planning Permission to erect 2no. outdoor digital signage units all at the Gleneagle Hotel, Muckross Rd, Poulnamuck (townland), Killarney, Co. Kerry.
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2360277
8 Aug 2023Conditional
Oikos Properties Ltd for : - (a) Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission - Planning Reg. No. 22/971 to construct a dwelling house on Site No. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. (b) Permission to construct a revised green area and all site works/ancillary areas from the green area granted outline permission under Planning Reg . 22/971 which will be relocated to the front of sites No. 11 & 12. (c) Permission to construct a two storey dwelling house on Site No. 10, 11 and 12 and all associated site works and Permission to extend the access road granted permission under Planning Reg. No. 22/971 to provide access to the aforementioned sites No. 11 & 12
Permission, 9 homes · Kerry County Council, 2360074
7 Jun 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND ALL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23650
10 May 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWLLING HOUSE, ANCILLARY SERVICES AND AREAS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23528
10 May 2023Conditional
RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, ANCILLARY SERVICES AND AREAS WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23529
10 May 2023Conditional
RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE, ANCILLARY SERVICES AND AREAS WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23530
12 Apr 2023Conditional
(A) RETAIN CHANGE OF USE FROM PERMITTED DWELLING HOUSE AS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF NO. 01/203784, TO A GUESTHOUSE ANCILLARY TO THE ADJACENT GLENEAGLE HOTEL, (B) RETAIN BOILER HOUSE EXTENSION TO REAR OF HOUSE, (C) RETAIN MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23386
21 Sept 2022Conditional
DEMOLISH EXISTING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCT 6 NO.2 BEDROOM APARTMENTS AND 1 NO.3 BEDROOM APARTMENT, PARKING, ANCILLARY SERVICES AND AREAS
Permission, 7 homes · Kerry County Council, 221000
14 Sept 2022Conditional
EXTEND EXISITNG ACCESS ROAD GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REG. NO. 12/205333 AND PROVIDE NEW STORM AND FOUL SEWERS AND ALL ANCILLARY SERVICES AND AREAS AND OUTLINE PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT 9 NO. TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSES ON SITES ON. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, AND 12 AND ALL ASSOCIATED STIE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 22971
2 Sept 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, ANCILLARY SERVICES AND AREA
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22927
31 Aug 2022N/a
CONSTRUCT 5 NO. DWELLING HOUSES, ANCILLARY SERVICES AND AREAS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 22918
24 Aug 2022Conditional
EXTEND EXISTING ACCESS ROAD GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REG NO. 12/205333 IN ORDER TO CONNECT UP WITH ACCESS ROAD GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REG NO. 20/1054 WHICH WILL ALLOW ACCESS ONTO MUCKROSS ROAD ONLY INSTEAD OF THE CURRENT ACCESS ROUTE ONTO MILL ROAD, DECOMMISSION/REALIGN PART OF EXISTING ACCESS ROAD GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REG NO. 12/205333, DECOMMISSION EXISTING STORM AND FOUL SEWERS AND PROVIDE NEW STORM AND FOUL SEWERS AND ALL ANCILLARY SERVICES AND AREAS AND PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PEDESTRIAN LINK FROM THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT ONTO ELM WOOD AND MILL ROAD AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT 5 NO. DWELLING HOUSES ON SITES 13, 14, 15, 16 AND 17 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 5 homes · Kerry County Council, 22883
24 Aug 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SERVICES AND AREAS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22888
16 Feb 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DORMER DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22155
14 Dec 2021Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCT A PORCH EXTENSION TO FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (B) PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH EXISTING GARAGE AT SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH EXISTING EXTENSION AT REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE. (C) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW EXTENSION TO REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE AT GROUND AND FIRST FLOOR LEVELS (D) PERMISSION TO MAKE ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (E) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211443
19 Oct 2021N/a
DEMOLISH EXISTING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCT 5 NO.2 BEDROOM APARTMENTS, PARKING , ANCILLARY SERVICES AND AREAS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 211190
20 Sept 2021Conditional
INFILL FLOOR CONSTRUCTION OVER EXISTING DOUBLE HEIGHT AREA IN AQUILA LEISURE CENTRE WITH THE CREATION OF A NEW 103M2 CONFERENCE/MEETING ROOM ALL AT THE REAR OF THE INEC
Permission · Kerry County Council, 211063
The 25 most recent of 39 applications.
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
- 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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Poulnamuck.
Architectural heritage
- Castle/fortified house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached gable-fronted single-bay three-storey building, built c. 1450, originally a tower house with single-bay three-stage engaged circular turret to north-west elevation. Extensively renovated and truncated, c. 1830, with openings remodelled to accommodate use as folly and ogee dome added to turret. Derelict, c. 1990, renovated and refenestrated in 1998. Replacement pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack and having lead and slate profiled dome with weathercock to turret. Uncoursed rubble stone walls. Limestone relieving arches to openings, with reused sill to ground floor south having cuts for two mullions. South elevation has three-light window with red brick corbelled heads and slate sills, c. 1830. Leaded timber framed window to north. Limestone spiral staircase within west turret. Tall hedge to roadway. Building now within garden of late twentieth century house.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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_210 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Poulnamuck with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Poulnamuck · Poll na Muc
- Area
- 280,107 m² (28.01 ha, 69.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killarney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Killarney Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killarney Rural electoral division: 7,735 people in 2,446 households; 71% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cahernane, Castlelough, Coolclogher, Scrahane, Woodlawn
- Placenames
- Poulnamuck 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.