Trien
Townland in the civil parish of Knockanure, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Trian
- Area
- 111.4 ha
- 275 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 4,408 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Trien, from 53 m² to 488,172 m² (48.82 ha, 120.63 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Trien 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
10 Nov 2025Conditional
Full planning permission to (A) construct new dwelling house and (B) construct new septic tank and percolation area along with all ancillary site services at Coolroe Upper, Glenbeigh, Co.Kerry
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561042
2 Apr 2025Conditional
permission to construct a battery storage facility including self-contained battery units with associated HVAC cooling and inverter equipment, associated compound cabling and ducting, electrical substation including grid transformer and single storey control building with welfare facilities, a foul water holding tank, an underground cable route grid connection to the adjacent ESB substation, maintenance lighting, security fencing, a CCTV monitoring system, landscaping works and all associated ancillary infrastructure necessary to facilitate the development on lands at Shronebeirne, Listowel, Co. Kerry. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) was prepared in respect of the proposed development and accompanies the application.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560249
18 May 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCT A BATTERY STORAGE FACILITY WITHIN A TOTAL SITE AREA OF 2.178HA, TO INCLUDE 60 NO SELF-CONTAINED BATTERY UNITS WITH ASSOCIATED HVAC COOLING UNITS, 14 CONVERTER AND 14 STEP UP TRANSFORMER CONTAINER UNITS, ASSOCIATED COMPOUND CABLING AND DUCTING, A GRID TRANSFORMER, TWO SINGLE STOREY SUBSTATION/CONTROL BUILDINGS WITH WELFARE FACILITIES, A FOUL WATER HOLDING TANK, A CABLE ROUTE GRID CONNECTION TO THE ADJACENT ESB SUBSTATION, MAINTENANCE LIGHTING, SECURITY FENCING, A CCTV MONITORING SYSTEM, LANDSCAPING WORKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY INFRASTRUCTURE NECESSARY TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT ON LANDS. A NATURA IMPACE STATEMENT HAS BEEN SUBMITTED WITH THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23574
8 May 2023N/a
INVALID APPLICATION
Permission · Kerry County Council, 23499
4 Dec 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT A FARM STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 191231
25 Sept 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A BATTERY STORAGE FACILITY WITHIN A TOTAL SITE AREA OF UP TO 2.178HA, TO INCLUDE 60 NO SELF-CONTAINED BATTERY CONTAINER UNITS WITH ASSOCIATED HVAC COOLING UNITS, 14 CONVERTER AND 14 STEP UP TRANSFORMER CONTAINER UNITS, ASSOCIATED COMPOUND CABLING AND DUCTING, A GRID TRANSFORMER, A SINGLE STOREY SUBSTATION/CONTROL BUILDING WITH WELFARE FACILITIES , A FOUL WATER HOLDING TANK, A CABLE ROUTE GRID CONNECTION TO THE ADJACENT ESB SUBSTATION, MAINTENANCE LIGHTING , SECURITY F3ENCING, A CCTV MONITORING SYSTEM , LANDSCAPING WORKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY INFRASTRUCTURE ON LANDS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 18931
28 Aug 2018N/a
CONSTRUCT A BATTERY STORAGE FACILITY WITHIN A TOTAL SITE AREA UP TO 2.178HA, TO INCLUDE 60 NO SELF-CONTAINED BATTERY CONTAINER UNITS WITH ASSOCIATED HVAC COOLING UNITS, 14 CONVERTER AND 14 STEP UP TRANSFORMER CONTAINER UNITS, ASSOCIATED COMPOUND CABLING AND DUCTING, A GRID TRANSFORMER , A SINGLE STOREY SUBSTATION/CONTROL BUILDING WITH WELFARE FACILITIES, A FOUL WATER HOLDING TANK , A CABLE ROUTE GRID CONNECTION TO THE ADJACENT ESB SUBSTATION , MAINTENANCE LIGHTING, SECURITY FENCING , A CCTV MONITORING SYSTEM, LANDSCAPING WORKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY INFRASTRUCTURE ON LANDS. A TEN YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION IS BEING SOUGHT TO CONSTRUCT THE DEVELOPMENT
Permission · Kerry County Council, 18847
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Trien.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Trien.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Trien.
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 10 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 Trien.
- 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 Trien with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Trien · An Trian
- Area
- 1,113,784 m² (111.38 ha, 275.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Knockanure, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Electoral division
- Kilmeany, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmeany electoral division: 752 people in 270 households; 90% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Kilmeany, Lissaniska, Pilgrimhill, Shronebeirne
- Placenames
- Trien 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.