Slieveglass

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Slieveglass, from 24 m² to 1,929,827 m² (192.98 ha, 476.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Slieveglass 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.

• 24 Jan 2019Conditional

  RETAIN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FLOW MEASURING WEIR. THE DEVELOPMENT CONSISTIS OF A FLOW MEASURING DEVICE TO ACCESS AVAILABLE FLOWS IN THE RIVER AND TO FACILITATE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF A HYDRO ELECTRIC STATION FURTHER DOWNSTREAM ON THE OWENNAFEANA RIVER

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 1941

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Mount Brandon SAC 000375
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mount Brandon 000375

Recorded monuments

• KE025-003 Hut site
  Description

  In rough, wet, scree-strewn pastureland. A circular drystone structure, the wall of which is slightly corbelled. D: 3.35m. H: 1.17m. T: 1.36m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1416. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

• KE034-012 Enclosure
  Description

  This small oval enclosure is situated in marshy land, about 50m from the N bank of the Owennafeana river. It measures 10m E-W x 8m N-S internally, and the enclosing wall, of rough drystone construction, stands to a maximum height of .75m. It is not clear where the entrance is located. The site was named 'fort' on the OS Fair Plan but is untitled on the published editions of the OS map. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1548. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Slieveglass.

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 20 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Slieveglass.

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 Slieveglass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Slieveglass · An Sliabh Glas

Area

1,961,105 m² (196.11 ha, 484.6 acres)

Civil parish

Cloghane, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaguiny

Electoral division

Brandon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Brandon electoral division: 159 people in 66 households; 86% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 28% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonsharragh, Faha, Maghanveel, Teer

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Slieveglass 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.