Tahilla

123 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tahilla, from 32 m² to 178,074 m² (17.81 ha, 44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Tahilla 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.

• 28 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission for decommissioning of existing waste water treatment system and installation of a new waste water treatment system, and all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660819

• 23 Feb 2026Conditional

  renovate and extend existing guest house and associated site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660141

• 17 Sept 2018Conditional

  (A) REMOVE EXISTING HIP ROOF, (B) CONSTRUCT NEW GABLE END WALL AND (C) CONSTRUCT FIRST FLOOR BALCONY

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18897

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: Kenmare River SAC 002158

Recorded monuments

• KE100-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 20.8m N-S, 23.85m E-W Dunkilla Fort/Dún Coille: This rather overgrown bivallate rath is located on a prominent ridge with an excellent outlook in all directions. The S sector of its outer bank was levelled in the late 1970s, when the intervening fosse was also largely infilled. Elsewhere this bank averages 3.15m wide and 1.6m high above external ground level, which slopes steeply away from the NW sector. The surviving section of the fosse is 2.6m wide at base and occurs .7m below the outer bank. Trees grow along the crest of the inner bank and have contributed to its partial erosion and subsidence into the fosse. It rises to an external height of 4.9m, has a basal width of 5m and falls .75m to the interior. A 2.3m wide entrance gap occurs in the inner bank at E, where a causeway crosses the fosse. The interior of the rath is occupied by a series of cultivation ridges. The IFC Schools' Collection recorded the presence of two slabs in the rath's interior which reputedly covered an opening to a souterrain. Graves described this souterrain (KE100-019001-) as consisting of the 'usual underground passages leading into chambers' (1930, 74). The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 547. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE100-019001 Souterrain
  Description

  The IFC Schools' Collection recorded the presence of two slabs in the rath's interior which reputedly covered an opening to a souterrain. Graves described this souterrain (KE100-019001-) as consisting of the 'usual underground passages leading into chambers' (1930, 74). The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 547. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE100-024 Souterrain
  Description

  This souterrain, marked 'Cave' on the second edition of the OS map, is located in rough pasture on the NW side of Coongar Harbour. Its lintelled entrance faces S and measures .9m x .3m. It gives access to a drystone-built passage which is aligned N-S and measures c. 3m long and 1.1m wide. Its side-walls are crudely built and much collapsed. One of its roofing slabs has collapsed and blocks its inner end. A small group of boulders on the surface, 4m NW of the entrance, may indicate an extension of the souterrain in this direction. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 904. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

Architectural heritage

• Tahilla Catholic Chapel, church/chapel, 1750–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of freestanding T-plan two-bay single-storey stone-built Roman Catholic church, built c. 1775, with single-bay single-storey transept to north-east elevation. Ruinous, 1895-1896. Now mostly collapsed.

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

At the centre of the townland of Tahilla, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Tahilla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Tahilla · Tathuile

Area

1,439,404 m² (143.94 ha, 355.68 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcrohane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron South

Electoral division

Tahilla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

239 people lived in 91 households in the Tahilla electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 38% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ankail, Derreennamucklagh, Derryquin, Gortagowan, Rossdohan

Placenames

Tahilla 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.