Urlee
Townland in the civil parish of Lisselton, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry; in Irish Urlaí
- Area
- 210.3 ha
- 520 acres
- Land parcels
- 78
- registered freehold, median 2,906 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Urlee, from 118 m² to 451,679 m² (45.17 ha, 111.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Urlee 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
13 Aug 2026N/a
the construction of a single storey dwelling house with effluent treatment system, access drive & all associated site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660752
19 Dec 2023Conditional
Retention Permission to retain an existing telecommunications installation comprising of 24m lattice telecommunications support structure with attached antenna and dish equipment, associated communication buildings and attached omni antennas together with associated ground equipment cabinets and generator enclosed within a fenced compound located within the townland of Urlee and Lahesheragh North, Knockanore Mountain, Ballybunnion, Co. Kerry.
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2360431
16 Mar 2023Conditional
TO RETAIN AN EXISTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS INSTALLATION COMPRISING OF 29.5M LATTICE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE AND ATTACHED ANTENNA EQUIPMENT, 6M STUB TOWER AND EQUIPMENT, COMMUNICATION BUILDING TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED GROUND EQUIPMENT AND CONTAINER ENCLOSED WITHIN A FENCED COMPOUND
Retention · Kerry County Council, 23283
29 Jun 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A STOREY DWELLING WITH PART SINGLE STOREY WHICH WILL BE SERVED BY A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22699
8 Dec 2020N/a
THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF THE REPLACEMENT OF THE EXISTING COMPOUND PERIMETER CHAINLINK/BARBED WIRE FENCE AND GATE, WITH A NEW 2.4M HIGH PALISADE FENCE WITH GATE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 201195
18 Jan 2017Conditional
RETAIN EXISTING 35M HIGH TELECOMMUNICATIONS MAST TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT AND FENCING IN ACCORDANCE WITH CONDITION NO 1 OF TEMPORARY PERMISSION GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE PL. 08/239454
Retention · Kerry County Council, 1729
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 Urlee.
Recorded monuments
- KE005-031 Ringfort - rath
Description
This site is marked on the 1841-42 and 1914 OS maps as a circular enclosure, though on the later edition it has been cut NW-W by a fieldbank. No surface trace of this site could be found. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 322. 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 Urlee.
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, 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 Urlee.
- 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 Urlee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Urlee · Urlaí
- Area
- 2,102,902 m² (210.29 ha, 519.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lisselton, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Electoral division
- Urlee, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Urlee electoral division: 376 people in 148 households; 86% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynoneen, Barraduff, Lacka West, Lahesheragh North, Lahesheragh South, Tulla More
- Placenames
- Urlee 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.