Tooreennasliggaun

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tooreennasliggaun, from 46 m² to 279,108 m² (27.91 ha, 68.97 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 Tooreennasliggaun 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.

• 8 Aug 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY TYPE DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE C/W NEW SECONDARY TREATMENT TANK AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 25212

• 6 Jun 2025Conditional

  (A) RETAIN THE DEMOLITION WORKS OF THE PREVIOUS DWELLING HOUSE ON SITE, (B) RETAIN THE PARTIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW DWELLING ON SITE (SIMILAR TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 23990), WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES, (C) PLANNING PERMISSION TO COMPLETE THE PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED DWELLING WITH MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 23990, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 25149

• 24 Sept 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A GARDEN SHED

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24376

• 2 Sept 2024Refused

  Construction of an Agricultural Shed and ancillary site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460648

• 23 Nov 2023Conditional

  Retention Permission to Retain dwelling house as constructed within revised site boundaries and Permission to Upgrade existing wastewater treatment system to include the installation of a polishing filter

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360361

• 12 Sept 2023Conditional

  (A) RETAIN THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES, (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH THE EXISTING FRONT PORCH AND THE MAIN ROOF OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (C) PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW EXTENSION TO FRONT, SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (D) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF NEW WWTU WITH WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23990

• 8 Dec 2021Refused

  CONSTRUCT A NEW STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211408

• 4 Jun 2020Conditional

  (A) RETAIN A SUN LOUNGE EXTENSION, A DORMER WINDOW AND A VELUX ROOF WINDOW, AN ATTIC STORAGE ROOM, AND MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES IN THE EXISTING DWELLING, (B) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN A DOMESTIC GARDEN SHED AND (C) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN A FUEL SHED ALL

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20483

• 25 Jan 2017Conditional

  (I) RETAIN HOUSE WITH ELEVATIONAL CHANGES, WITHIN REVISED BOUNDARIES, (II) SET BACK FRONT BOUNDARIES FOR SIGHT DISTANCE AND (III) CONSTRUCT A PROPRIETARY TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 1757

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE056-034 Standing stone
  Description

  This broad, irregularly shaped standing stone is located adjacent to a field boundary which divides poorly drained bog from pasture. Largely obscured by overgrowth, it measures 1.95m high and 1.33m x .65m in basal dimensions; NE-SW. Some packing stones are visible at its base. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 219. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

Architectural heritage

• Glendalough House, house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey triple-gabled-fronted house, built c. 1870, with single-bay two-storey gabled recessed bay to centre and single-bay two-storey gabled advanced flanking bays, having entrance bay to left. Two-bay side elevations and three-bay two-storey return to rear to west on an L-shaped plan incorporating fabric of earlier house, built c. 1820, comprising single-bay two-storey parallel block with two-bay two-storey wing with half-dormer attic at right angles to west. Burnt, c. 1975, renovated in late twentieth century to accommodate use as guesthouse. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron gutters, hoppers, downpipes and plain timber bargeboards. Painted ruled-and-lined rendered walls with string course having lozenge patterning to south and part of east elevations. Timber one-over-one and two-over-two pane sliding sash windows with painted stone sills, chamfered reveals and render hood mouldings. Replacement glazed and panelled door. Pointed arched opening to a porch on north gable. Detached five-bay two-storey stone-built stable block, built c. 1820, to north with two-bay single-storey lean-to projecting bay to south-west corner, renovated to accommodate residential use. Gateway, built c. 1870, to east comprising pair of rubble stone piers with wrought-iron gates.

• Caragh Lodge, house, 1860–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay single- and two-storey Victorian villa, built c. 1875, comprising two-bay two-storey main block, two-bay side elevations having single-bay two-storey advanced bay to east and three-bay single-storey lean-to wing along south elevation with square-headed open internal porch. Lean-to slate canopy along entrance front on timber framing with gablet above entrance. Extended to north in late twentieth century, comprising five-bay two-storey wing at right angles with three-bay two-storey projecting portion to centre having series of two-storey canted bay windows. Now in use as hotel. Pitched and hipped slate roof with central valley, clay ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks with moulded bands and overhanging eaves on timber brackets. Painted and rendered walls. Round- and square-headed windows with tripled one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Retaining interior features. Detached four-bay single-storey rubble stone-built outbuilding, built c. 1875, to east. Detached single-bay single-storey outbuilding, built c. 1875, to east. Gateway, built c. 1875, to north-west comprising pair of roughcast piers with cast-iron gates. Sited on lake shore.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Tooreennasliggaun · Tuairín na Sliogán

Area

1,902,277 m² (190.23 ha, 470.06 acres)

Civil parish

Killorglin, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Caragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Caragh electoral division: 999 people in 375 households; 84% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintleave Commons, Glannagilliagh, Quaybaun, Tullig Beg

Placenames

Tooreennasliggaun 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.