Scarteen

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scarteen, from 296 m² to 299,926 m² (29.99 ha, 74.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Scarteen 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.

• 21 Feb 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20161

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Scarteen.

Recorded monuments

• KE058-065 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture, c. 180m W of the Glanooragh River. This rath is not visible at ground level. A kink in the field boundary to the W may be associated with it. It is indicated on the 1894 OS 6-inch map as a circular area (diam. c. 40m) truncated by a NNW-SSE field boundary at W. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE058-090 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a hill. A circular area (c. 29m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1m) with numerous cattle gaps. The bank is eroded N-NE. The raised interior is slightly uneven. A souterrain (KE058-090001-) is situated in the NW quadrant. Small shallow depressions occur to the S and SW of the souterrain. A large stone, which may be a capstone, is situated to the S of the souterrain opening. There is a small, circular mound (L c. 2m; Wth c. 1m) in the NE quadrant. A linear feature (on a N-S axis), which is situated E of the possible entrance to the souterrain, appears to extend to the S and SW of the souterrain opening. A group of three large stones, arranged side by side, are to the S of the possible capstone. This is the rath recorded in the 1840s as being in the 'N.E. end' of Scarteen and as having a 'cavern' (OSNB, Aghadoe, no. 1, 7). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE058-090001 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (KE058-090----). A small opening (L 1.25m N-S; Wth 0.75m E-W) in the NW quadrant of the rath slopes down to the N for c. 1.25m into what may be the original entrance to this souterrain. There are small shallow depressions to the S and SW of the opening and a possible capstone lies on the ground immediately to the S. A passage beneath the opening extends to the N for a short distance and then turns to the W. There is rough drystone walling on both sides of the passage. The roof of the passage is corbelled. A linear feature (on a N-S axis) in the interior of the rath to the E of the souterrain opening, appears to extend to the S and SW and may relate to the souterrain. This is the 'cavern', referred to in the 1840s as being in a 'fort' in Scarteen townland (OSNB, Aghadoe, no. 1, 7). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE058-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In poorly drained pasture, on the break of a S-facing slope. This rath is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), abutting a N-S field boundary at W. It is one of the two raths recorded in the 1840s as being 'about 10 chains [c. 200m]' apart (OSNB, Aghadoe, no. 1, 7). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE058-162 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In rough pasture, in a marshy area on the S side of an E-W field boundary. There are no visible remains of this holy well which was known as 'Tobar an Bulláin' (CPCK vol. 2). According to local information, it was filled in many years ago. 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 Scarteen.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_183 (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.

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

Name

Scarteen · An Scairtín

Area

710,794 m² (71.08 ha, 175.64 acres)

Civil parish

Aghadoe, 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

Aghalee More, Gortnacarriga, Killeen, Knockasarnet, Knockeenduff

Placenames

Scarteen 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.