Reenkilla

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Reenkilla, from 20 m² to 929,301 m² (92.93 ha, 229.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 1 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 Reenkilla 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 Reenkilla 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: Kenmare River SAC 002158

Recorded monuments

• KE108-015 Hut site
  Description

  In rough pasture, in a wooded hollow, flanked by a ridge of outcropping rock to the N and S. The remains of a rectangular hut site (5.1m E-W; 2.8m N-S) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.6m) at W, by the vertical face (H 1.7m) of outcropping rock at E and S and by some lower outcropping rock at N. Collapsed drystone walling also occurs on top of the outcropping rock along the N, E and S sides. The stone wall at W is moss and grass covered. The interior is uneven and strewn with rubble. The whole area is obscured by trees and bushes. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE108-077 Kiln - lime
  Description

  In rough pasture, on a NE-facing slope, close to the W shore of the Croanshagh River mouth. A partly collapsed kiln (c. 4m x 4m; H 2.2m) built of random rubble sandstone. Front faces NE. Recess ope (Wth 1.8m; D 1.2m) is partly collapsed; lintelled ope at base of rear (H 0.2m; Wth 0.4m). Rear of kiln is built into slope at SW allowing access to cylindrical funnel (diam. 1.45m) with bowl-shaped bottom. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Reenkilla.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Reenkilla.

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

Name

Reenkilla · Rinn Choille

Area

1,971,487 m² (197.15 ha, 487.17 acres)

Civil parish

Tuosist, and its townlands

Barony

Glanarought

Electoral division

Glanmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glanmore electoral division: 245 people in 98 households; 86% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cashelkeelty, Lauragh Upper, Shronebirrane

Placenames

Reenkilla 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.