Skehanierin (Stokes)
Townland in the civil parish of Listowel, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry; in Irish Sceich an Iarainn (Stokes)
- Area
- 58 ha
- 143 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 3,101 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skehanierin (Stokes), from 619 m² to 262,699 m² (26.27 ha, 64.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 (Stokes) 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
26 Nov 2024Conditional
Planning Permission to construct a single storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, install mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system, utilise existing vehicular entrance off public road with new site entrance off existing access road with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460918
25 Mar 2019N/a
INSTALLATION OF A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND PURAFLO MODULES AND THE CARRYING OUT OF ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 19300
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Skehanierin (Stokes).
Recorded monuments
- KE011-012 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diameter 33.6m N-S Situated in the corner of a field, this site has been cut on its W side by a fieldbank running NNE-SSW. No surface trace of the remainder of the site survives to the W of this fieldbank. All that remains of this now much levelled univallate rath is a semi-circular raised area that rises to 1m above the surrounding land. A very slight exterior fosse can be noted for 19m to the NE to E. It is 2m wide and .3m deep. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 440. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Skehanierin (Stokes).
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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_256 (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 (Stokes) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Skehanierin (Stokes) · Sceich an Iarainn (Stokes)
- Area
- 579,698 m² (57.97 ha, 143.25 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
- Ballaghadigue, Coolatoosane, Dromin Upper, Skehanierin (Egan)
- Placenames
- Skehanierin (Stokes) 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.