Foilduff

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foilduff, from 788 m² to 517,028 m² (51.7 ha, 127.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Foilduff 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.

• 27 May 2025Conditional

  To construct an administration building to the rear of the existing school (Protected structure Ref No.RPS-KY-0180)

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560443

• 8 May 2025N/a

  Invalid: (Protected structure Ref No. 70-1) A.)To construct an administration building to the rear of the existing school, (B) To construct a car park with a new entrance and exit complete with safety barriers and all associated site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560382

• 22 Apr 2025N/a

  INVALID: To (A) To construct an administration building to the rear of the existing school, (B) To construct a car park with a new entrance and exit complete with safety barriers and all associated site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560317

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

• KE070-015 Hut site
  Description

  On the steep S slopes of Knocknadobar, overlooking the lower reaches of the Ferta river valley. A well-preserved semi-subterranean hut KE070-015---- of circular plan, modified for use as a sheepfold. The walls corbel and the original entrance may have been at SW. D: 3.85m x 3.5m. H: 1.5m. T: 1m. The foundations of a second circular corbelled hut (KE070-015001-) lie 25m to S. A large jambstone flanks the 1m wide entrance at E. D: 2.8m x 2.25m. H: .7m. T: 1.2m. A number of field walls occur in the immediate vicinity. 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. 1270. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE070-015001 Hut site
  Description

  On the steep S slopes of Knocknadobar, overlooking the lower reaches of the Ferta river valley. A well-preserved semi-subterranean hut KE070-015---- of circular plan, modified for use as a sheepfold. The walls corbel and the original entrance may have been at SW. D: 3.85m x 3.5m. H: 1.5m. T: 1m. The foundations of a second circular corbelled hut (KE070-015001-) lie 25m to S. A large jambstone flanks the 1m wide entrance at E. D: 2.8m x 2.25m. H: .7m. T: 1.2m. A number of field walls occur in the immediate vicinity. 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. 1270. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE070-015002 Field boundary
  Description

  In rough heather and gorse-covered grazing, on the lower SE-facing slopes of Knocknadobar Mountain. The remains of collapsed stone walls (T 0.9m; H 0.4m), which protrude above the surface of the bog, occur in a roughly rectangular area (c. 105m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW). The partially grass-covered remains of the walls are strewn haphazardly as they extend to the NW and to the SE of two hut sites (KE070-015----, KE070-015001-). (O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, 402, no. 1270) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Foilduff.

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

At the centre of the townland of Foilduff, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Foilduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Foilduff

Area

1,175,252 m² (117.53 ha, 290.41 acres)

Civil parish

Killinane, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Castlequin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

583 people lived in 225 households in the Castlequin electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynahow More, Gortmore, Killurly Commons, Tullig

Placenames

Foilduff 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.