Avenue

246 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Avenue, from 2 m² to 29,083 m² (2.91 ha, 7.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 161 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 65 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M5Other mix of uses
  Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M3District, Neighbourhood Centre (District, neighbourhood centre)
  Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space, Park (Open space, park)
  Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Tourism & related (Tourism and related)
  Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
  Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Mixed Use, general development (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Avenue in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Avenue.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Avenue.

Architectural heritage

• Killarney Railway Station, railway station, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached thirteen-bay single- and two-storey railway station, opened 1853, comprising three-bay two-storey central block and five-bay single-storey lateral wing to west. Five-bay single-storey recessed later wing to east with single-bay single-storey projecting end bay to east having glazed lantern to apex. Pitched timber canopy over platform and line to rear elevation to north, supported to north by freestanding section of open arcaded wall. West wing extended to south, c. 1890, comprising four-bay single-storey glazed projecting entrance block with cantilevered canopy over entrance. Pitched and hipped slate roof with lead-ridge rolls, ashlar chimneystacks, mineral felt added to booking hall roof and projecting canopy on timber brackets. Snecked limestone walls with ashlar string courses, moulded bands, raised rusticated quoins and timber cornice, partly coved by later fascia board. Swept-arched openings with raised limestone lugged surrounds, keystones, limestone sills and timber six-over-six pane sliding sash windows. Timber glazed panels to booking office. Retaining interior features. Platform covered by open-truss roof with decorative joint covers. Attached two-bay single-storey outbuilding, built c. 1855, to east retaining original aspect. Wall-mounted cast-iron letter box, c. 1905, with inscribed “ER VII” monogram. Detached three-bay two-storey former station master’s house, built c. 1855, to east with three-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to right ground floor, tripartite window opening over, moulded architraves to openings, single-bay two-storey side elevations and three-bay single-storey flat-roofed return to rear to north with pilasters and modillioned cornice. Detached three-bay single-storey limestone ashlar outbuilding, built c. 1855, to east, possibly originally water tower with moulded cornice and rubble stone-built side elevations, now disused. Freestanding three-bay single-storey over raised base signal box, built c. 1855, to east with single-bay side elevations.

• Killarney Great Southern Hotel, hotel, 1850–1855 · National interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay three-storey over part-raised basement neo-Classical former railway hotel, opened 1854, originally on a symmetrical plan with single-bay three-storey breakfront having single-storey prostyle tetrastyle Doric portico approached by flight of steps and flanked by single-bay three-storey advanced end bays. Designed by Frederick Darley. Now in use as hotel. Seven-bay three-storey side elevations to east and to west. Seven-bay three-storey rear elevation to south having single-storey bowed projecting bay to centre and single-bay three-storey advanced end bays. Extended to east, c. 1930, comprising nine-bay three-storey wing with pair of single-bay four-storey recessed bays. Renovated, refenestrated and extended to east in late twentieth century, comprising nine-bay three-storey wing at right angles with single-bay single-storey conservatory added to west side elevation. Pitched and hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron gutters, downpipes, hoppers, and profiled gutters to wings on limestone bracketed cornice. Rendered walls with raised render quoins, granite cornice, limestone blocking course, random rubble green limestone to basement with pale limestone quoins. Limestone sills with composite lugged architraves and replacement uPVC windows. Granite window cases to entrance bay with pilasters and entablatures. Retaining interior features.

• Killarney Methodist Church, church/chapel, 1905–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-storey Gothic Revival style single-cell Methodist church, built c. 1910, designed by G.F. Beckett. Comprising four-bay nave, single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to north-west, single-bay single-storey gabled vestry projection to north-east, single-bay full-height part-engaged corner turret to north-west on a polygonal plan with buttresses and having limestone ashlar polygonal spire. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, gable limestone copings, lead-clad ridge vent, profiled cast-iron gutters and downpipes with decorative fixings. Random squared limestone walls with cement ribbon repointing, limestone ashlar, buttresses and engaged turret. Lancets with limestone ashlar surrounds, red brick relieving arches which project where they meet with eaves band and leaded glass panels. Triple lancet west window with trefoil heads and hood mouldings. Timber double-leaf door. Gateway, built c. 1910, to north-west comprising pair of channelled piers with decorative wrought-iron gates.

• Cobbles/flags/paving/kerbing, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Section of stone cobbling, c. 1850, with pair of sections of flanking limestone flagged paving.

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 Avenue, 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_209 (ZIP).

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 Avenue with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Avenue

Area

285,719 m² (28.57 ha, 70.6 acres)

Civil parish

Killarney, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Killarney Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

10,487 people lived in 3,610 households in the Killarney Urban electoral division. 51% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardshanavooly, Ballycasheen, Demesne, Dromhale, Killarney, Moyeightragh, Park

Placenames

Avenue 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.