Slievegaura
Slievegaura is a townland in the civil parish of Kilbonane, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry.
- Area
- 95.3 ha
- 235 acres
- Land parcels
- 82
- registered freehold, median 2,927 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Slievegaura, from 102 m² to 121,430 m² (12.14 ha, 30.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Slievegaura 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
10 Sept 2026N/a
(a)Permission to demolish the existing dwelling house (b) permission to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment system together with all associated site works and services, at Slievegaura Beaufort Co Kerry.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660871
13 Jul 2026N/a
(1) to construct a dwelling house (2) Install a waste water treatment system (3) all associated site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660658
19 Dec 2022Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH OPEN AGRICULTURAL BARN STRUCTURE, (B) CONSTRUCT AN ADDITIONAL PITCH FOR TRAINING, (C) CONSTRUCT CLUBHOUSE WITH PARKING FACILITIES, (D) PERMISSION TO DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND REPLACE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER, (E) PERMISSION TO INSTALL NEW WALKWAY AROUND THE PITCHES AND PROVIDE NEW FLOODLIGHTS AND PEDESTRIAN LIGHTING, (F) PERMISSION TO ERECT NETTING NEAR GOALPOSTS ON PITCH, (G) CONSTRUCT NEW CAR PARKING, (H) ADD PEDESTRIAN GATE TO EXISTING ENTRANCE GATE AND ERECT SIGNAGE. RETENTION PLANNING PERMISSION TO (A) RETAIN THE DEVELOPMENT AS COMPLETED TO DATE, MORE PARTICULARLY RETAIN EXISTING MAIN PITCH, TRAINING AREA INCLUDING 4 NO. FLOODLIGHTS, (B) RETAIN 2 NO. DERELICT STONE BUILDINGS ON SITE, (C) RETAIN EXISTING 8 NO. PORTA CABINS CURRENTLY BEING USED AS DRESSING ROOMS, TOILETS, SHOWERS AND STORAGE AREAS WHICH ARE SERVED BY EXISTING SEPTIC TANK (THESE PORTA CABINS WILL BE REMOVED OFF SITE WHEN THE CLUBHOUSE HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Retention · Kerry County Council, 221316
26 Aug 2022Conditional
(I) RETAIN EXISTING TWO STOREY HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED (II) PERMISSION TO ADD EXTENSION AT REAR INCLUDING BALCONY, (III) PERMISSION TO MAKE MINOR INTERNAL CHANGES TO THE ELEVATIONS AND (IV) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A GARAGE
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22895
7 Feb 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20105
17 Aug 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SAND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17810
10 Jul 2017Conditional
RETAIN ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17658
9 Jun 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17548
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: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Slievegaura.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Slievegaura.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Slievegaura, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_136 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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
- Slievegaura, Ballymalis5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Slievegaura
- Area
- 953,026 m² (95.3 ha, 235.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbonane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Kilbonane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 632 people lived in 230 households in the Kilbonane electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymalis, Culleeny More, Kilbonane, Listry
- Placenames
- Slievegaura 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.