Tarbert

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tarbert, from 4 m² to 1,204,055 m² (120.41 ha, 297.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 54 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M4Built up Area (Built up area)
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Landscape Protection (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New/Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space, Park (Open space, park)
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 12 May 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AND INSTALL A GROUND MOUNTED SOLAR ARRAY CONSISTING OF 296 SOLAR PV PANELS ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS LOCATED WITHIN THE SITE BOUNDARY

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 25115

• 7 Apr 2021Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21362

• 15 May 2020Refused

  AMEND A PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PERMISSION (KERRY COUNTY COUNCIL PLANNING REF 19/381) ( AN BORD PLEANALA REF ABP- 304807-19) WHICH RELATES TO A CHANGE IN THE GRID CONNECTION ROUTE FOR THE PERMITTED WIND FARM. THE REVISED ROUTE WILL ENTAIL THE CONSTRUCTION OF APPROXIMATELY 12.1KM OF 38KV UNDERGROUND ELECTRIC CABLE CONNECTING THE EXISTING PERMITTED WINDFARM (19/381) TO THE 38Kva/110Kva SUBSTATION AT KILPADDOGE, TARBERT. THE UNDERGROUND CABLES WILL BE LOCATED ALONG THE PUBLIC ROADS R551, R552 AND L-1010 AND ALONG 2 SECTIONS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY. THE CABLE WILL BE INSTALLED IN EXCAVATED TRENCHES APPROXIMATELY 1.2M IN DEPTH AND WILL INCLUDE ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND DUCTING JOINT BAYS, COMMUNICATION CHAMBER BAYS, DRILL PITS, SHEATH LINK BOXES AND INSPECTION CHAMBERS, ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE AND GROUND WORKS. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL ALSO CONSIST OF THE CONNECTION OF THE PERMITTED WINDFARM (19/381), VIA EXISTING PERMITTED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLES, TO THE PROPOSED CABLE.THE UNDERGROUND CABLE WILL BE LOCATED IN THE TOWNLANDS OF BALLYLINE WEST, BALLYMACASY, LISLAUGHTIN, GLANCULLARE SOUTH, GURTEENAVALLIG,MEELCON CARHOONA, FARRANAWANA, DOONARD UPPER, DOONARD LOWER TARBERT AND KILPADDOGE ' THE APPLICANT IS SEEKING A TEN YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION AND OPERATIONAL PERIOD OF 25 YEARS. AN APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT SCREENING REPORT AND AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT SCREENING REPORT HAS BE PREPARED AND SUBMITTED AS PART OF THIS APPLICATION. AN NIS HAS BEEN SUBMITTED WITH THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 20438

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tarbert Bay 001386

Recorded monuments

• KE003-001 Bastioned fort
  Description

  This site is situated on high ground and has a commanding view of the surrounding land, which is sloping S. This site is marked on the 1840-41 OS map as 'Massy's Hill'. This map shows the fort as being a small six-pointed star fort; later editions show it less clearly. Today this star-shaped fort has been practically destroyed along its N section by the ESB in building and fencing in their station. Only three points of the six survive to the S and E. This fort consists of two well-defined stone banks and a fosse, the banks now very overgrown and covered in vegetation. The internal area measures 29m N-S and c. 27m E-W. The remaining enclosing bank measures 0.3m high above the interior, a maximum of 4m above the fosse and c. 5m at the base. The width of the fosse varies from 2m-4m wide. The outer bank measures 1m high externally, 0.8m-2m above the fosse and c. 4m wide at the base. There is a break in the bank to the SE, varying from 1m-3m in width. However, because so much distortion of the fort has taken place, it is difficult to say with certainty whether this is the entrance. The plan form of the fort would suggest a date from early to mid-17th century (Toal 1995, 270-2). According to Kerrigan (1995, 102-3), ‘Fortifications that may originate from the 1641-1660 period include forts at Tarbert, Co. Kerry. The fort [KE003-001----] at Tarbert was similar in outline but somewhat larger than the tenaille trace work at Dunboy Castle [CO128-001002-] constructed by Broghill at this time. It is shown on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey as a small star fort situated on the mainland just south of the west end of Tarbert Island. It was some 250 feet across with a distance of 125 to 150 feet between the salient angles, a small six-pointed star fort. Later editions of the Ordnance Survey show the outline less clearly; the plan form may suggest a date from the beginning to the middle of the seventeenth century, and the similarity to the work at Dunboy [CO128-001001-] may indicate a Confederate or Cromwellian origin’. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 985. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE003-012 Moated site
  Description

  This square-shaped enclosure in Leslie's Wood is adjacent to St Patrick's Terrace and is known as 'Stranavaun' (Sruthán an Mhúin, streamlet of the urine; originally the name of a streamlet, now closed up, according to a local informant). The site is square in plan, measuring internally 64m N-S and E-W. This area is enclosed by two well-defined earthen banks with a wide steep fosse. The outer bank measures 1.5m high externally, c 2m above the fosse and c 9m wide; the fosse measures 3m wide. The external height of the inner bank above the fosse measures c 3m, the internal height of the bank above the interior .5m, and the width of the bank c 8m. The entrance would appear to be on the S side. It measures 4m wide at its inner bank and 6m at the outer bank. A slight causeway can be seen over the fosse, measuring 6m in width. According to Kerrigan (1980) the principal period of construction or occupation of this type of enclosure was between 1641-59. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 979. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE003-013 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diameter 44m N-S, 43m E-W This univallate stone fort is cut to the S to E by the Tarbert ferry road, and it lies E of the 'Stranavaun fort' (979). It consists of a sub-circular area enclosed by a well-defined bank, which rises to 3.2m externally and on average 1.4m internally. Access to the interior is gained by a stone-lined entrance to the SW. It is 2.5m wide and c 6.8 long. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 799. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

Architectural heritage

• Tarbert Courthouse, court house, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay single- and two-storey former courthouse and bridewell, built 1831, now in use as heritage centre. Comprising three-bay two-storey advanced central block with two-bay single-storey flanking lateral wings with attics. Renovated and extended with pair of two-bay single-storey flat-roofed pavilion blocks at right angles to wings, incorporating fabric of former enclosed yards. Pitched and hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles and central ashlar chimneystack. Snecked rubble sandstone walls with hammered limestone quoins and projecting eaves course. Timber nine-over-nine and six-over-six pane sliding sash windows with raised limestone ashlar surrounds, lintels and sills. Lunettes to wings with ashlar surrounds. Grilles to lunettes and first floor windows. Square-headed doorway with limestone surround. Rubble boundary wall with hammered limestone quoins and cobbled capping. Plinth wall to front with replacement steel railings. Rusticated limestone gateway with ashlar hood moulding and carved plaque.

• Tarbert House, house, 1700–1740 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay three-storey over part-raised basement early-Georgian house, built c. 1720, with three-bay side elevations. Door opening to centre originally approached by flight of steps. Renovated and possibly refenestrated, c. 1890, with single-bay single-storey projecting glazed porch added. Pitched and hipped slate roof with central valley, having rendered chimneystack. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Timber one-over-one pane sliding sash windows with render architraves. Two-pane windows to basement with iron bars. Limestone architrave to doorway, with timber panelled double-leaf door, limestone steps and glazed timber porch, built c. 1890. Retaining interior features. Detached single-bay single-storey rubble stone-built outbuilding, built c. 1840, to south-east. Detached six-bay two-storey rubble stone-built stable block, built c. 1840, to south-west retaining original fenestration with elliptical-headed integral carriage arch to ground floor. Gateway to south-west, built c. 1840, comprising pair of cut-stone octagonal piers with wrought-iron gates. Gateway to south-east, built c. 1840, comprising pair of cast-iron piers with decorative cast-iron gates and railings.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_296 (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.

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

Name

Tarbert · Tairbeart

Area

1,544,286 m² (154.43 ha, 381.6 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnaughtin, and its townlands

Barony

Iraghticonnor

Electoral division

Tarbert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tarbert electoral division: 757 people in 319 households; 82% of households own their home; 16% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Doonard Lower, Kilpaddoge, Tarbert Island, Tieraclea Lower

Placenames

Tarbert 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.