Tooreenard
Townland in the civil parish of Castleisland, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Tuairín Ard
- Area
- 219.1 ha
- 541 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 12,906 m² (1.29 ha, 3.19 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tooreenard, from 54 m² to 417,224 m² (41.72 ha, 103.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 43 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tooreenard 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
30 Apr 2026Conditional
to amend planning permission previously granted, under application reference no. 211039, to (1) convert old school building into a habitable dwelling including raise eaves and ridge height, alterations to elevations, convert attic into habitable space (2) install wastewater treatment systems and (3) all associated site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660383
10 Sept 2025Refused
amend planning permission previously granted, application reference no. 211039, to (1) convert old school building into a habitable dwelling including raise eaves and ridge height, alterations to elevations, convert attic into habitable space (2) install wastewater treatment systems (3) all associated site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560808
15 Dec 2023Conditional
(1) Construct a slatted unit shed complete with underground tank & Cubicles (2) Construct a Milking Parlour (3) All associated site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2360413
9 Sept 2021Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH AN EXISTING OLD DERELICT SCHOOLHOUSE, AND (B) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION SERVICED WITH MECHANICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM (KLARGESTER BIO DISC (BA)) AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER, AND WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211039
8 Feb 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT A PROPOSED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC STORE / GARAGE SERVED BY SEPTIC TANK UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA, SITE ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19107
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 Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
- KE031-001 Fulacht fia
Description
This record was formerly classed as a 'fulacht fiadh' in both the SMR (1990) and the RMP (1997). The monument is described by the 'Castleisland District Archaeological Survey' - March 1990 - as a 'small mound of [burnt] material' which had been levelled by the landowner in the 1980s and 'removed some of the stone to metal a farm road' (SMR file). (Sheila Ronan, 10 May 2006)
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tooreenard.
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
- 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 Tooreenard.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Tooreenard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Tooreenard · An Tuairín Ard
- Area
- 2,190,868 m² (219.09 ha, 541.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleisland, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Lackabaun, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lackabaun electoral division: 435 people in 164 households; 90% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ahaneboy, Dromadda More, Fahaduff, Meenbannivane, Muingvautia, Tooreenmore, Tullagubbeen
- Placenames
- Tooreenard 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.