Ralappane
Townland in the civil parish of Kilnaughtin, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry; in Irish Ráth Lapáin
- Area
- 86.5 ha
- 214 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 121,216 m² (12.12 ha, 29.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ralappane, from 10,019 m² (1 ha, 2.48 acres) to 311,319 m² (31.13 ha, 76.93 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ralappane 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Ralappane 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballylongford Bay 001332
Recorded monuments
- KE003-004 Ringfort - cashel
Description
This site is situated on rising ground and has a commanding view of the surrounding land. All that remains of this once univallate rath is a semi-circular earthen bank that curves for c 22m before being cut by a townland boundary fieldbank. The bank has an external height of .4m, an internal height of .4m and the width of the bank at the base measures c 5m. The above description is derived from Toal C. (compiler) ‘The North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority. (1995) no. 102. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 18 June 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ralappane.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ralappane.
- 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 Ralappane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Ralappane · Ráth Lapáin
- Area
- 865,197 m² (86.52 ha, 213.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnaughtin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Electoral division
- Tarbert, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tarbert electoral division: 757 people in 319 households; 82% of households own their home; 16% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carhoonakineely, Kilcolgan Lower
- Placenames
- Ralappane 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.