Toberatooreen
Toberatooreen is a townland in the civil parish of Murher, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Tobar an Tuairín.
- Area
- 322.9 ha
- 798 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 113,586 m² (11.36 ha, 28.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toberatooreen, from 882 m² to 993,294 m² (99.33 ha, 245.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Toberatooreen 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 Dec 2022Conditional
RETAIN PART OF HIS CUBICLE SHED WITH FEED PASSAGE AND UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANKS WITH SLATS AS CONSTRUCTED ALSO FOR PLANNING PERMISSION TO COMPLETE SAME SHED ALL ON HIS FARMYARD
Retention · Kerry County Council, 221280
7 Dec 2022Conditional
RETAIN EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTIC DEVELOPMENT ALSO FOR PLANNING PERMISSION TO COMPLETE SAME AND PERMISSION TO CHANGE USE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO A DOMESTIC STORAGE AREA ALL ON HIS SITE
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221276
5 Apr 2022N/a
RETAIN PART OF CUBICLE SHED WITH FEED PASSAGE AND UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANKS WITH SLATS AS CONSTRUCTED ALSO FOR PLANNING PERMISSION TO COMPLETE SAME SHED ALL ON FARMYARD
Retention · Kerry County Council, 22365
5 Apr 2022N/a
RETAIN EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTIC DEVELOPMENT ALSO FOR PLANNING PERMISSION TO COMPLETE SAME ON SITE
Retention · Kerry County Council, 22366
21 Dec 2017Conditional
FOR A 10 YEARS PLANNING PERMISSION, TO CONSTRUCT AN UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLE INCLUDING ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE. THE PROPOSED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLE WILL CONNECT THE PERMITTED BEENNANASPUCK WIND FARM (KERRY CO. COUNCIL PLANNING REF. NO. 14/571), (AN BORD PLEANALA PLANNNG REF. PL08.245464) AND PERMITTED TOBERATOOREEN WIND FARM (KERRY CO. COUNCIL PLANNING REF. NO. 12/431 AND 14/854), (AN BORD PLEANALA PLANNING REF. PL08.242170), WHICH ARE LOCATED IN CO. KERRY, TO THE NATIONAL ELECTRICITY GRID VIA THE ATHEA SUBSTATION IN CO. LIMERICK. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF THE LAYING OF 9.95 KM OF UNDERGROUND ELECTRICIAL CABLES, ASSOCIATED DUCTING, ASSOCIATED CABLE DRAW PITS, ELECTRICAL CABINETS, AND EXCAVATION / TRENCHING WORKS. THE UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLE ROUTE IS PRIMARILY ON PUBLIC ROAD WITH SECTIONS ON OTHER ROAD. DETAILS OF THE UNDERGROUND CABLES AND EXTENT OF THE WORKS ARE SHOWN ON THE PLANNING APPLICATION DRAWINGS. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR), AND ALSO THE PLANNING APPLICATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT
Permission · Kerry County Council, 171298
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Toberatooreen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Toberatooreen.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Toberatooreen, about 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Toberatooreen.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Toberatooreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Toberatooreen · Tobar an Tuairín
- Area
- 3,229,284 m² (322.93 ha, 797.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Murher, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Electoral division
- Newtownsandes, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,135 people lived in 451 households in the Newtownsandes electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Derreen (Co. Limerick), Dromreask (Co. Limerick), Glannalappa East, Glannalappa Middle, Gortdromasillahy, Kilbaha North
- Placenames
- Toberatooreen 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.