Scarriff
Townland in the civil parish of Dromod, barony of Iveragh, Co. Kerry
- Area
- 128.5 ha
- 317 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 4,183 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scarriff, from 164 m² to 287,114 m² (28.71 ha, 70.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Scarriff 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
3 Feb 2026Conditional
Permission to Construct a Dwellinghouse served by a septic tank and polishing filter
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660068
11 Aug 2025N/a
planning permission to install incinerator unit 'inciner8 i8-40A' for thermal destruction of pet material and remains in outbuilding facility at existing abattoir facility
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560692
27 Jun 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22674
7 May 2019Conditional
DEMOLISH OLD HOUSE AND OUT HOUSES IN RUIN CONDITION, CONSTRUCT A NEW HOUSE SERVED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK, AND SANDCELL POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19473
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: Ballinskelligs Bay and Inny Estuary SAC 000335
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballinskelligs Bay And Inny Estuary 000335
Recorded monuments
- KE089-046 Barrow - unclassified
Description
Knockaunbaun: Located on a level flood plain on the S side of the Inny river, this mound is suboval in plan, with its longer axis orientated N-S. It appears to be entirely composed of earth and gravel, and measures 11m long and approximately 2m high. Local tradition records the existence of an underground passage in the mound. 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. 395. 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 Scarriff.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Scarriff.
- 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 Scarriff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Scarriff
- Area
- 1,284,604 m² (128.46 ha, 317.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dromod, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iveragh
- Electoral division
- Emlagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Emlagh electoral division: 962 people in 381 households; 79% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 41% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Farrannahow, Garrannafulla, Maulnahone, Murreagh, Spunkane
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Scarriff 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.