Tursillagh
Townland in the civil parish of Ballymacelligott, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry; in Irish Tor Saileach
- Area
- 234.1 ha
- 578 acres
- Land parcels
- 59
- registered freehold, median 3,981 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tursillagh, from 228 m² to 606,976 m² (60.7 ha, 149.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Tursillagh 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
5 May 2026Conditional
Planning permission to construct a single storey dwelling house and install a septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works at Tursillagh,Tralee, County Kerry.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660390
2 Apr 2026Conditional
Retention permission to retain extensions to existing dwelling house and also for retention permission to retain associated garage and shed and permission to decommission the existing septic tank and replace it with a new mechanical treatment unit and polishing filter complete with all ancillary site works associated with the development
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660294
8 Dec 2025Refused
Planning permission to construct a single storey dwelling house and to install an irl 8 tricel novo wastewater treatment pumped unit and sandcell tertiary system and all associated site works at Tursillagh,Tralee, County Kerry.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561142
24 Nov 2025N/a
Invalid: construct a single storey dwelling house and to install an irl 8 tricel novo wastewater treatment pumped unit and sandcell tertiary system and all associated site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561083
10 Feb 2023Conditional
(A) EXTEND AND RENOVATE THE EXISTING DWELLING, (B) DEMOLISH THE EXISTING GARAGE/SHED, (C) CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE/SHED, (D) CONSTRUCT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23130
13 Jun 2018Conditional
(A) RETAIN AND COMPLETE EXISTING EXTENSION AT SIDE AND REAR OF DWELLING AND (B) FULL PLANNING PERMISSION TO RENOVATE EXISTING DWELLING AND BUILD A PRIVATE SINGLE STORY EXTENSION AT SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING, PERMISSION TO DECOMMISSION EXISTING DWELLING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM.
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18573
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 Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tursillagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tursillagh.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tursillagh.
- 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 Tursillagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Tursillagh · Tor Saileach
- Area
- 2,341,104 m² (234.11 ha, 578.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymacelligott, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- O'Brennan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- O'Brennan electoral division: 538 people in 177 households; 91% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincollig, Ballintobeenig, Ballyaukeen, Ballynabrennagh Lower, Ballynabrennagh Upper, Cappagh, Leath East, Maghanknockane, Tooreen
- Placenames
- Tursillagh 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.