Readrinagh

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Readrinagh, from 690 m² to 335,169 m² (33.52 ha, 82.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Readrinagh 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 Readrinagh 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

Recorded monuments

• KE068-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on a W-facing slope, with views to Macgillycuddy's Reeks. A raised circular area (diam. 20m) defined by a scarp (Wth 4m; H 1.55m), which is obscured by dense overgrowth. The interior slopes down to the SSW and its N half is densely covered with gorse and briars. In the S half of the interior are two grass-covered oval mounds (dims. of the larger mound: 2m E-W; 1.5m N-S; H 0.6m) of earth. In the 1940s it was recorded as a rath '60 feet [18.28m] in diameter with a circular fence 6 feet [1.82m] high on the outside and 10 feet 6 in [3.2m] wide at base [and] 5 feet [1.52m] wide at top' on Michael Carroll's land (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE068-085 Stone circle - multiple-stone
  Description

  In scrub-covered cutaway bog, sloping down slightly to the NE. Indicated as a circular stony area (diam. c. 15m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. A ring of twenty nine stones with another stone in the centre forming 'Cloca Breaca' were recorded in the 1940s (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). The diameter of this circle was given as 35 feet [10.66m] and the dimensions of the stones being 2 feet 7 inches [0.77m] high by 2 feet 8 in [0.8m] in width and 1 foot 8 in [0.5m] in thickness (ibid.). There are no visible remains of this possible stone circle. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE068-120 Bridge
  Description

  A NE-SW humpback road bridge, of random rubble sandstone, spanning the Beheenagh River. Four semicircular arches with roughly shaped voussoirs, some of which are projecting. The two central arches are the largest (span c. 5m). The SW arch (span 3.5m) is dry. There is a low rounded cutwater with ornamental moulding on the upstream side of the central pier (Wth 1.2m) and a low pointed cutwater on the NE pier. The arches are underpinned with concrete and the parapets have concrete coping. Paving on the river-bed under the arches extends beyond the bridge on the downstream side. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE068-123 Kiln - lime
  Description

  On the N side of a minor road. The random rubble front wall faces E and has a partly collapsed central recess (Wth 1.95m). There is a horizontal ledge across the front wall c. 2m above ground level. There is a truncated earthen ramp at the rear. The N side is revetted with stone, the S side is incorporated into a field boundary. There is a stone-lined funnel (diam. 1.8m). The limekiln is overgrown and is partly obscured by dumped material. 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 Readrinagh.

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 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 Readrinagh.

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

Name

Readrinagh

Area

1,536,411 m² (153.64 ha, 379.66 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Rathmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmore electoral division: 1,941 people in 735 households; 67% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barraduff, Beheenagh, Gortanahaneboy West, Kilquane, Knockdoorah, Lisbabe

Placenames

Readrinagh 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.