Skehanierin Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Listowel, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry; in Irish Sceich an Iarainn
- Area
- 29.8 ha
- 74 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 2,550 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skehanierin Lower, from 220 m² to 76,154 m² (7.62 ha, 18.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Skehanierin Lower 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
8 Jan 2024Conditional
• Laundry /storage building and covered walkway • Alterations to rear extension granted under planning permission • Covered recreational area • Car parking areas and associated site works
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2460008
13 Feb 2018Conditional
CHANGE FROM SAND POLISHING FILTER AS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION 16/973 TO A XYLIT FILTER SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 18113
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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
- KE011-016 Enclosure
Description
This circular enclosure is marked on the 1841-42 OS map, but it does not appear on the later 1939 edition. The Limerick and Tralee railway line would appear to cut right through this site. No surface trace survives. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1055. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Skehanierin Lower.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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_257 (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 Skehanierin Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Skehanierin Lower · Sceich an Iarainn
- Area
- 297,948 m² (29.79 ha, 73.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Listowel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Electoral division
- Listowel Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Listowel Rural electoral division: 1,654 people in 635 households; 83% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinruddery, Bunagarha, Dromin Lower, Dromin Upper, Skehanierin (Egan)
- Placenames
- Skehanierin Lower 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.