Scariff

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Scariff, from 1,492,575 m² (149.26 ha, 368.82 acres) to 1,492,575 m² (149.26 ha, 368.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 0 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Scariff 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 Scariff 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
• Special Protection Area: Deenish Island and Scariff Island SPA 004175
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Deenish And Scarriff Islands 001345

Recorded monuments

• KE105A001001 Church
  Description

  Oratory: Scariff Island is located 5 km SW of Hog's Head, on the N side of the mouth of Kenmare Bay. The ecclesiastical site on it is reached by a path that leads uphill from the landing place at Coosaneeve/Cuas na Naomh, on the island's NE shore. It consists of the remains of a terraced oval enclosure, within which is the site of an oratory and a burial ground, as well as a nineteenth century house. Outside the enclosure at SW is a souterrain. The outline of the oval enclosure (KE105A-001002-) is preserved only at S, where it is traversed by a NE-SW field wall, but a number of curving stretches of field boundaries at N may reflect its limits here. The enclosure measures c. 80m NW SE x c. 55m NE-SW. Its interior slopes steepy downwards to SE, and features two level terraces. The modern house stands on the lower terrace, which measures 13m wide and is delineated at SE by the traversing field wall. The 1.8m high face of the upper terrace features intermittent stretches of a curving drystone revetment. The structure marked 'Oratory' (KE105A-001001-) on the OS maps is located on this terrace, and is preserved as the low sod-covered foundations of a rectangular building which measures c. 7.5m NE-SW x 5.5m NW-SE externally. Henry noted a ceallúnach (KE105A-001003-) 'without any feature of interest' c. 90m NE of the oratory (1957, 146). No surface trace of this is now apparent. It may be the disused burial place, noted in the OSNB (Kilcrohane, 29), where Francis O'Sullivan, Provincial of the Irish Franciscan Order, was buried following his execution on Scariff Island in 1653 (Browne 1898, 321). The entrance to a souterrain (KE105A-001004-) is located just outside the enclosure at SW. Built into a steep slope, it measures .4m high x 1.1m wide and gives access to a passage which extends 2.8m WNW before turning to WSW for a further 4.1m, where it is blocked with collapse. The passage is up to .9m high and averages .9m wide. It is roofed with lintels, and its well-built drystone walls corbel inwards as they rise. Lewis noted 'the vestiges of an ancient hermitage (KE105A-001005-) or cell . . . covered by a mound of earth and stones raised by the Trigonometrical Surveyors of Ireland' on the summit of Scariff Island (1837, 546). There is no apparent trace of this potential site. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 967. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE105A001002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Scariff Island is located 5 km SW of Hog's Head, on the N side of the mouth of Kenmare Bay. The ecclesiastical site on it is reached by a path that leads uphill from the landing place at Coosaneeve/Cuas na Naomh, on the island's NE shore. It consists of the remains of a terraced oval enclosure, within which is the site of an oratory and a burial ground, as well as a nineteenth century house. Outside the enclosure at SW is a souterrain. The outline of the oval enclosure (KE105A-001002-) is preserved only at S, where it is traversed by a NE-SW field wall, but a number of curving stretches of field boundaries at N may reflect its limits here. The enclosure measures c. 80m NW SE x c. 55m NE-SW. Its interior slopes steepy downwards to SE, and features two level terraces. The modern house stands on the lower terrace, which measures 13m wide and is delineated at SE by the traversing field wall. The 1.8m high face of the upper terrace features intermittent stretches of a curving drystone revetment. The structure marked 'Oratory' (KE105A-001001-) on the OS maps is located on this terrace, and is preserved as the low sod-covered foundations of a rectangular building which measures c. 7.5m NE-SW x 5.5m NW-SE externally. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 967. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE105A001003 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Scariff Island is located 5 km SW of Hog's Head, on the N side of the mouth of Kenmare Bay. The ecclesiastical site (KE105A001001-) on it is reached by a path that leads uphill from the landing place at Coosaneeve/Cuas na Naomh, on the island's NE shore. It consists of the remains of a terraced oval enclosure, within which is the site of an oratory and a burial ground, as well as a nineteenth century house. Outside the enclosure at SW is a souterrain. Henry noted a ceallúnach (KE105A-001003-) 'without any feature of interest' c. 90m NE of the oratory (1957, 146). No surface trace of this is now apparent. It may be the disused burial place, noted in the OSNB (Kilcrohane, 29), where Francis O'Sullivan, Provincial of the Irish Franciscan Order, was buried following his execution on Scariff Island in 1653 (Browne 1898, 321). The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 967. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE105A001004 Souterrain
  Description

  Scariff Island is located 5 km SW of Hog's Head, on the N side of the mouth of Kenmare Bay. The ecclesiastical site on it is reached by a path that leads uphill from the landing place at Coosaneeve/Cuas na Naomh, on the island's NE shore. It consists of the remains of a terraced oval enclosure, within which is the site of an oratory and a burial ground, as well as a nineteenth century house. Outside the enclosure at SW is a souterrain. The entrance to a souterrain (KE105A-001004-) is located just outside the enclosure (KE105A-001002-) at SW. Built into a steep slope, it measures .4m high x 1.1m wide and gives access to a passage which extends 2.8m WNW before turning to WSW for a further 4.1m, where it is blocked with collapse. The passage is up to .9m high and averages .9m wide. It is roofed with lintels, and its well-built drystone walls corbel inwards as they rise. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 967. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE105A001005 Hermitage
  Description

  Scariff Island is located 5 km SW of Hog's Head, on the N side of the mouth of Kenmare Bay. The ecclesiastical site KE105A001001- on it is reached by a path that leads uphill from the landing place at Coosaneeve/Cuas na Naomh, on the island's NE shore. It consists of the remains of a terraced oval enclosure, within which is the site of an oratory and a burial ground, as well as a nineteenth century house. Outside the enclosure at SW is a souterrain. Lewis noted 'the vestiges of an ancient hermitage (KE105A-001005-) or cell . . . covered by a mound of earth and stones raised by the Trigonometrical Surveyors of Ireland' on the summit of Scariff Island (1837, 546). There is no apparent trace of this potential site. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 967. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE105A002 Megalithic structure
  Description

  This site, described in the OSNB (Kilcrohane, 192) as a 24 foot (7.3m) long grave, was located on the NE side of Scariff Island, a short distance S of an ecclesiastical site (KE105A-001----). Henry described the site as 'two erect slabs standing about 20 feet [6.09m] apart', and recorded that local digging at the site revealed no finds (1957, 146). No trace of this site, which was locally known as the 'Giant's Grave', is now apparent. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 98. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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).

No address of the register names Scariff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Scariff · An Scairbh

Area

1,460,422 m² (146.04 ha, 360.88 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcrohane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron South

Electoral division

Darrynane, the unit of the census

Placenames

Scariff on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.