Reen
Townland in the civil parish of Killarney, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Rinn
- Area
- 116.9 ha
- 289 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 5,051 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres)
- Zoning
- G5
- Mixed/general 'green' /recreation/conservation, other
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Reen, from 243 m² to 59,093 m² (5.91 ha, 14.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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
- G5Mixed/general 'green' /recreation/conservation, other (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Kerry County Development Plan 2022-2028, Kerry · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Kerry County Development Plan 2022-2028, Kerry · 4 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
31 Aug 2022Refused
CONSTRUCT A COUNSELLING CENTRE, COMPRISING OF COUNSELLING ROOMS, OFFICES AND ASSOCIATED ROOMS, A SEPARATE ANCILLARY PLANT ROOM, ACCESS ROAD, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) HAS BEING PREPARED IN RESPECT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AND ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 22920
20 Mar 2018Conditional
RELOCATE NEW JUNCTION WITH THE PUBLIC ROAD FROM THAT ALREADY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. PL6323329 106M FURTHER NORTH EAST ALONG WITH CONSTRUCTION OF ADDITIONAL TURNING TABLE OPPOSITE DWELLING NO. 1 ALL
Permission · Kerry County Council, 18248
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
- 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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Reen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Reen.
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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_186 (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 Reen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Reen · An Rinn
- Area
- 1,169,456 m² (116.95 ha, 288.98 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
- Bunrower, Demesne, Knockreer, Ross Island
- Placenames
- Reen 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.