Tieraclea Upper

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Tieraclea Upper, from 965 m² to 965 m². The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Tieraclea Upper 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.

• 3 Aug 2024Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, ENTRANCE, DRIVEWAY, PACKAGED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460520

• 17 Jan 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT (A) DETACHED PART TWO STOREY, PART SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE (B) ON SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM(C) RELOCATON OF EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND RELATED ALTERATIONS TO ROADSIDE BOUNDARY AND (D) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2027

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tieraclea Upper.

Recorded monuments

• KE003-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This possible circular univallate rath lay SW of Tieraclea House. It appears on the 1841-42 OS map and is situated in the NW corner of a pastoral field. No surface trace of this site survives. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 205. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE003-025 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on the 1841-42 and 1914 OS maps as 'Toberteh' (Tobar Te). Situation and Description: No surface trace of this well survives today. According to OSNB, the well derived its name (Toberte - hot water) 'from its quality being so remarkably warm that neither frost or snow is ever seen in the circle about 10 yards in diameter'. Rounds/Legends/Offerings: No tradition survives. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 887. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE003-026 Enclosure
  Description

  This small circular enclosure is marked bn the 1914 OS map and is 14m in diameter. It consists of a circular area which is enclosed by an earthen bank. The enclosing bank has been levelled N to E and only appears as a slight rise above the surrounding land; elsewhere, it is c 3m wide and rises to .8m externally and .5m internally. A modern ditch has been dug from the E to S to W. The interior is at a higher level than the surrounding land and is now cultivated as a vegetable garden. This enclosure was possibly an animal pen. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1025. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Tieraclea Upper, 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_297 (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.

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

Name

Tieraclea Upper · Tír na gCliath Uachtarach

Area

660,858 m² (66.09 ha, 163.3 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnaughtin, and its townlands

Barony

Iraghticonnor

Electoral division

Tarbert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

757 people lived in 319 households in the Tarbert electoral division. 82% of households owned 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 Upper, Kilmurrily, Shanaway East, Shanaway West, Tieraclea Lower

Placenames

Tieraclea Upper 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.