Shronaboy
Townland in the civil parish of Killaha, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry
- Area
- 470.1 ha
- 1,162 acres
- Land parcels
- 66
- registered freehold, median 2,869 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shronaboy, from 52 m² to 3,197,933 m² (319.79 ha, 790.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Shronaboy 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
28 Oct 2025Refused
Permission for a dwelling house served by mechanical treatment unit and polishing filter
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560966
3 Feb 2025Conditional
Retention Permission to retain house and septic tank within revised site boundaries
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560051
31 May 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING, SEPARATE GARAGE, PROVISION OF AN ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT BY WAY OF A PROPRIETARY MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23634
14 Sept 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211047
19 Apr 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE C/W SEPTIC TANK AND BORD NA MONA PURAFLO MODULES
Extension of duration · Kerry County Council, 1691010
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Doo Loughs 000350
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365
Recorded monuments
- KE075-046 Anomalous stone group
Description
In rough hill pasture, on a SW-facing slope, containing occasional boulders and loose stones, overlooking Lake Guitane to the W. Two upright stones, which are aligned E-W, stand 1.35m apart. The stone at W (H 1.6m; 1.55m x 0.32m), which is on a WNW-ESE orientation, is roughly rectangular in plan and leans to the NNE where it is supported by smaller stones. The stone at E (H 1.25m; 1.95m x 0.5m), which is on a NE-SW orientation, is roughly rectangular in plan also and leans to the NW, where it is supported by a stone. There is a possible cairn (KE075-047----) c. 6m to the W. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011
- KE075-047 Cairn - unclassified
Description
In rough hill pasture, on a SW-facing slope containing occasional boulders and loose stones, overlooking Lake Guitane to the W. A roughly oval cairn (6m E-W; 4m N-S; H 0.2m) consisting mainly of small stones, some of which extend below the present ground level. An anomalous stone group (KE075-046----) is c. 6m to the E. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible nearby. 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 Shronaboy.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_292 (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 Shronaboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Shronaboy
- Area
- 4,700,958 m² (470.1 ha, 1,161.63 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killaha, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Flesk, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Flesk electoral division: 426 people in 157 households; 90% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappagh, Crohane, Curraglass, Garries, Gortahoosh, Killaha, Rossalia, Rusheen Beg, Rusheen More, Tullaha
- Placenames
- Shronaboy 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.