Toor

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toor, from 164 m² to 403,858 m² (40.39 ha, 99.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Toor 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.

• 21 Aug 2026N/a

  We, Circal Trienearagh Solar Limited, intend to apply for permission for development on lands in the townlands of Ballygarret, Gortanimerisk, Knockaderren, Knockavallig, Knockundervaul, Lacka West, Lisroe, Toor and Trienearagh, near Listowel, Co. Kerry (the Proposed Development) which comprises a renewable energy development as defined by The European Union (Planning and Development) (Renewable Energy) Regulations 2025. The Proposed Development comprises the following: I. Construction and operation of up to 576,850 sqm of solar PV arrays on ground-mounted metal frames, with a maximum overall height of up to 2.79 metres. II. Internal underground trenching, electrical cabling and ducting between the solar PV arrays and electrical invertor / transformer skid units. III. Up to 23 no. electrical inverter / transformer skid units. IV. Construction and operational access to the site by 16 no. site entrances using 14 no. existing field access points and 2 no. new access points. V. 7 no. temporary construction compounds and ancillary facilities for the duration of the construction phase of the project. VI. Construction of a 110kV / 33 kV transformer compound including an IPP Control Module of 33 sqm, a MV Switchgear Module of 33 sqm, all associated electrical plant and apparatus, 2 no c.18m lightning masts, lighting columns, fencing, parking, wastewater holding tank, rainwater harvesting unit, 33kV underground cabling, and a 110kV under the fence cable connection to the existing Trien 110 kV Substation. VII. 33 kV collector cable network, joint bays and associated works. VIII. Internal access tracks, site landscaping and drainage works, security fencing, CCTV and all associated ancillary site development works. IX. The decommissioning and reinstatement of the solar farm at the end of its operational life, including proposed transformer compound. The application seeks a 10-year permission with an operational lifetime of 40 years from the date of commissioning of the entire solar farm is being sought. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the construction, operation and decommissioning of the Proposed Development and accompanies the planning application. Refer to enclosed statutory notices for full development description.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660792

• 27 Jan 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALL A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2159

• 27 Jan 2020Conditional

  DEMOLISH A CATTLE HOUSE AND CONSTRUCT A ROOFED COMPLEX INCLUDING (1) A SLATTED SLURRY TANK ADJACENT TO MILKING PARLOUR (2) CATTLE CRUSH (3)A CALF HOUSE COMPLETE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2049

• 12 Sept 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALL A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18890

• 9 Apr 2018Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING, EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED, EXISTING DOMESTIC STORE AND EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALL AS BUILT (PREVIOUS PLANNING REF. NO. 05/1290) AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES AS BUILT &PERMISSION TO DECOMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK ON SITE & TO INSTALL NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18319

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

Recorded monuments

• KE017-015 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Toor ring-barrow is situated on the slope of a hill affording extensive views in all directions. The site has an external diameter of 50m and is cut in two almost equal parts by a fieldbank running in an E-W direction. The portion of the ring-barrow N of the fieldbank is in very good condition, whereas the section to the S is barely perceptible. There is also another fieldbank running N-S which slightly cuts the E sector, the enclosing bank, and the inner fosse. This site consists of a circular area 32m N-S, enclosed by a well-defined fosse, especially in the N field where it ranged in width between 4.6m and 6.2m. In the S field it is difficult to see in places, though to the SE it measures 5.6m. The enclosing low, wide earthen bank measures in width between 3.7m and 4.2m and rises to a maximum of 1m internally and .7m externally. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 88. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Toor · An Tuar

Area

2,412,277 m² (241.23 ha, 596.09 acres)

Civil parish

Duagh, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Trienearagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Trienearagh electoral division: 486 people in 169 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardydonagan, Bunglasha, Derrindaff, Knockaderreen, Knockundervaul, Lacka West, Lisroe, Meenanare, Patch

Placenames

Toor 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.