Tullaghna
Tullaghna is a townland in the civil parish of Rattoo, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Tulaigh Lachna.
- Area
- 175 ha
- 433 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 4,862 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tullaghna, from 38 m² to 350,948 m² (35.09 ha, 86.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Tullaghna 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
19 May 2025Conditional
BUILD A PRIVATE SINGLE STOREY DWELLING SERVED WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 25121
24 Apr 2024Refused
TO BUILD A PRIVATE SINGLE STOREY DWELLING SERVED WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24169
20 Dec 2023Conditional
a) construct a new dwelling, b) construct a new site entrance, c) install a mechanical treatment unit and sand polishing filter and d) construct all associated site works at Tullaghna, Causeway, Co. Kerry
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360439
4 May 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SLATTED FLOORED AND SOLID CONCRETE FLOOR CUBICLE HOUSE, COMPLETE WITH ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANK, AND A HAY/STRAY STORAGE SECTION AND ANCILLARY CONCRETE YARD AND COMPLETE WITH ALL ASSOOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 23491
13 Apr 2021Conditional
BUILD A PRIVATE SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AT SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING, TO DECOMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM ON SITE AND INSTALL A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21376
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 Tullaghna.
Recorded monuments
- KE015-016 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diameter 25m This univallate rath is situated in a large pastoral field which is sloping S and gives an extensive view of the surrounding land. This site has been much disturbed and the interior has been completely filled in up to a height of 3.6m. Possibly this is field clearance which was dumped into the interior. The external height of the enclosing bank rises from 1.6m-2.6m above the surrounding land and .8m-1.6m above the interior. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 596. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE015-017 Ringfort - rath
Description
This circular enclosure lies NE of KE015-016---- and is marked on the 1841-42 and 1916 OS maps. No surface trace remains today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 597. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE015-020 Ringfort - rath
Description
This large circular enclosure is situated SE of KE015-017----. It is marked on the 1841-42 and 1916 OS maps, but no visible trace survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 598. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE015-021 Ringfort - rath
Description
This small circular enclosure lies one field SW of KE015-020----. It is marked on the 1841-42 OS map, but does not appear on the 1916 edition. No visible trace survives. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 599. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE015-135 Ringfort - rath
Description
This circular enclosure is marked on the 1841-42 and 1916 OS maps, and it lies three fields NE of KE015-018----. A slight trace can also be picked up on the Geological Survey of Ireland's aerial photographs (1974), but no surface trace can be seen today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 520. 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 Tullaghna.
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 Tullaghna, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tullaghna.
- 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 Tullaghna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Tullaghna · Tulaigh Lachna
- Area
- 1,750,454 m² (175.05 ha, 432.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rattoo, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Drommartin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 539 people lived in 184 households in the Drommartin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardagh, Ballincrossig, Ballinglanna, Dromkeen East, Drommartin
- Placenames
- Tullaghna 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.