Tarbert Island

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tarbert Island, from 101 m² to 110,371 m² (11.04 ha, 27.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 0 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 Tarbert Island 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.

• 31 Mar 2023Conditional

  THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL COMPRISE OF THE FOLLOWING ON A SITE MEASURING APPROXIMATELY 6.9 HECTARES: (1) REMOVAL OF EXISTING CABLE JOINT, BAY WITHIN TARBERT GENERATING STATION, 220kV SWITCHGEAR WITHIN THE EXISTING TARBERT SUBSTATION COMPOUND AND ASSOCIATED 220kV CABLING; (2) TWO NO. NEW LENGTHS OF 220kV UNDERGROUND CABLING MEASURING APPROXIMATELY 340M EACH, RUNNING BETWEEN TWO NO. NEW UNDERGROUND CABLE JOINT BASE IN TARBERT GENERATING STATION AND THE CONNCETION POINT AT TARBERT SUBSTATION; (3) THE NEW 220kV SWITCHGEAR BAY WITHIN THE EXISTING TARBERT SUBSTATION COMPOUND COMPRISING ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT, INCLUDING CABLE SEALING ENDS, INSULATORS, OVER HEAD CONDUCTORS, SURGE ARRESTORS, LIGHTNING MASTS AND LIGHTING POLES; AND (4) ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPUND AND LAYOUT AREAS, SITE PREPARATION WORKS AND GROUND LEVELING AS REQUIRED TO FACILITATE THE WORKS. TARBERT GENERATING STATION IS LICENSED BY THE ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) UNDER THE INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS (IE) LICENSE (REF: P0607-02). THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT INCLUDES WORKS LOCATED WITHIN THE IE LICENSE BOUNDARY OF TARBERT GENERATING STATION WHICH IS AN UPPER TIER ESTABLISHMENT TO WHICH THE CHEMICALS ACT (CONTROL OF MAJOR ACCIDENTS HAZARDS INVOLVING DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES) REGULATIONS 2015 (THE COMAH REGULATIONS) APPLY. THIS PLANNING IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS). AMENDMENTS TO THE NIS HAVE BEEN MADE IN RESPONSE TO THE FURTHER INFORMATION REQUEST

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 23350

• 15 Mar 2019Refused

  RETENTION OF THE DWELLING HOUSES WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES, RETENTION OF THE PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED STOREY AND A HALF DORMER EXTENSIONS TO REAR OF BOTH PROPERTIES COMPRISING OF 55.4 SQM OF ACCOMMODATION AT GROUND LEVEL AND 20.3 SQM OF HABITABLE ACCOMMODATION AT FIRST FLOOR AT NO. 2 THE RANGE, AND 54.0 OF ACCOMMODATION AT GROUND FLOOR AND 21.7 SQM OF HABITABLE ACCOMMODATION AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AT FLOOR LEVEL AT NO. 3 THE RANGE AS CONSTRUCTED/ CURRENTLY EXISTS ON SITE AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO, (A) COMPLETE THE STOREY AND A HALF DORMER EXTENSIONS TO BOTH PROPERTIES COMPRISING 55.4 SQM OF ACCOMMODATION AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND 20.3 SQM OF HABITABLE ACCOMMODATION AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AT NO. 2 THE RANGE, AND 54.0 SQM OF ACCOMMODATION AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND 21.7 SQM OF HABITABLE ACCOMMODATION AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AT NO. 3 THE RANGE AND (B) ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AT SITE

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19259

• 27 Apr 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A BATTERY STORAGE FACILITY WITHIN A TOTAL SITE AREA OF UP TO 2.278HA, TO INCLUDE 50 NO. SELF CONTAINED BATTERY CONTAINER UNITS WITH ASSOCIATED HVAC COOLING UNITS, 13 CONVERTER AND 13 STEP UP TRANSFORMER CONTAINER UNITS, ASSOCIATED COMPOUND CABLING AND DUCTING, A GRID TRANSFORMER, A SINGLE STOREY SUBSTATION / CONTROL BUILDING WITH WELFARE FACILITIES, A CABLE ROUTE GRID CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING ESB SUBSTATION BUILDING, MAINTENANCE LIGHTING, SECURITY FENCING, A CCTV MONITORING SYSTEM,AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY INFRASTRUCTURE ON LANDS WITHIN THE TARBERT GENERATING FACILITY. A TEN YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION IS BEING SOUGHT TO CONSTRUCT THE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 18392

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

• KE003-002 Battery
  Description

  Modern ESB power station stands on site of Tarbert Island Battery. In 1782 the House of Commons recorded the payment of £360 in order ‘to complete the Expence of constructing a Battery at the Island of Tarbert, with Accomodations for a Detachment of Artillery and a Company of Infantry’ (Anon. 1785, 46). McEnery (2006, 42-3) recorded that ‘new fortifications were erected at Tarbert between August 1794 and June 1795, with sixteen 24-pounders and six 6-pounders, in a work known as the Pakenham Redoubt, after the then Lieutenant General of the Irish Board of Ordnance, the Honourable Thomas Pakenham’. Kerrigan (1995, 149) recorded that ‘The batteries constructed between 1779 and 1783 at Cork Harbour, Tarbert and Passage were abandoned or disused for the next ten years, repeating the eighteenth-century pattern of the neglect of fortifications alternating with repairs and reconstruction in times of war or fear of invasion. On the outbreak of war with the French Republic in 1793, these works were again occupied or reconstructed, and other temporary works were to be erected in response to the threat of invasion. The renewal of the war in 1803 was to result in the most extensive scheme of fortification ever undertaken in Ireland’. One of six batteries (Kilcredaun CL072-027002-, Doonaha CL066-037001-, Scattery Island CL067-024015-, Kilkerin CL068-046---- and Tarbert KE003-002----) proposed by the Gother Mann Committee as part of the fortification of the Shannon estuary (McEnery 2006, 104). In 1806 Gother Mann, Inspector-General of fortifications, proposed rough costings for artillery fortifications of the Shannon estuary which included Carrig Island Battery and tower which he estimated would cost £6,000 (McEnery 2006, 76). In 1806 Gother Mann estimated that it would cost £3,000 to ‘raise and improve Pakenham Redoubt; tower in gorge’ (McEnery 2006, 76). In 1810 the Board of Ordnance approved estimates for the construction of the six artillery fortifications (ibid.). The contract was awarded to Mr. Flattery who excavated the trenches but failed to construct the masonry elements which was awarded to Mr Quillan a second contractor who commenced work on these fortifications in 1812 (ibid.). McEnery (2006, 104) recorded that ‘The Shannon Estuary fortification proposed by the Gother Mann Committee involved six batteries. These structures, as planned by Captain J. Ross Wright, were to be redoubts secured at the gorge by towers. The sixth work involved the reconstruction in masonry of the Pakenham Redoubt at Tarbert, with a circular tower towards the Estuary. The armament concerned was set out in RA [Royal Artillery] reports for 1825 and 1829. The Pakenham Redoubt would have seven 24-pounders in its battery and two 5.5-inch howitzers on its tower’. According to Kerrigan (1995, 206), ‘The Shannon Estuary batteries are all of a similar layout, with the exception of that at Tarbert, which resembled an obtuse-angled bastion in plan. The battery in each case is semi-circular or D-shaped in plan, surrounded by a dry moat with six guns (except for the four-gun battery at Doonaha [CL066-037001-]) arranged around the curved part of the perimeter, firing over the broad parapet. The rear of the battery was protected by a rectangular blockhouse or 'bombproof barrack' built in the moat at the centre of the landward side. On the roof of this structure were two guns for landward defence, either carronades or howitzers. The blockhouse or barrack was also described in contemporary accounts as a 'defensible guardhouse' capable of accommodating all or most of the garrison of a battery or redoubt, loop-holed for musketry, the roof to be arched over if possible with a terrace or platform on top’. Tarbert Battery WAS described by Kerrigan (1995, 2008) as follows; 'Demolished during the building of the ESB power station, this battery is shown by survey plans to have been bastion shaped in plan with two faces overlooking the estuary to the north. The main armament was arranged behind these two parapets, with three guns to each and a centrally placed gun at the salient angle, giving seven pieces of ordnance in all. The battery was some 200 feet wide and had the usual arrangement of a defensible guardhouse in the rear. Entry to the battery was through an arched gateway about seven feet wide, presumably approached originally across a drawbridge over the dry moat. The battery was sited on the highest part of Tarbert Island; it is possible that it was one of the works under construction in 1794-95 or perhaps a partial rebuilding of one of these earlier structures. The defensible guardhouse was similar in dimensions and detail to those at Kilcredaun [CL072-027002-] and Kilkerin [CL068-046----], suggesting a date of construction contemporary with them, between 1808 and 1814. Tarbert battery was sited about forty feet above water level, towards the southeast side of the island; a late eighteenth-century painting of the Shannon depicts a battery with embrasures close to water level on the north side of Tarbert Island, which may be the battery of 1783 or a work built by Ferrier in the 1790s. In 1811 Tarbert was recorded as having thirteen guns, suggesting that this battery at water level or another work was in use in addition to the battery and defensible guardhouse described above'. In 1814 Arthur Watson was appointed master gunner to Tarbert Battery (McEnery 2006, 106). By 1872 Tarbert Fort contained six 68-pound smooth bore cannons and two 5.5 inch howitzers (McEnery 2006, 144). In 1892 the gunners abandoned Tarbert Battery (McEnery 2006, 134). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 January 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Tarbert Island.

Landslides

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

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

Name

Tarbert Island · Oileán Thairbirt

Area

262,492 m² (26.25 ha, 64.86 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

Tarbert

Placenames

Tarbert Island 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.