Hillgrove

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hillgrove, from 1,485 m² to 171,071 m² (17.11 ha, 42.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Hillgrove 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Hillgrove 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

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Valencia River Estuary 001383

Recorded monuments

• KE079-049 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Children's Burial Ground: This wedge-shaped mound or platform, no longer in use as a burial ground by the late nineteenth century, is located on the lower NE slopes of Bentee mountain. Rising up to 1m above surrounding ground level, it is 17.5m long and broadens in width from 7.5m at E to 12.5m at W, where it is bounded by a modern field boundary. Two prominent slabs stand 1m apart at the N perimeter of the site and may mark an entrance. The stony surface of the platform features a large number of thin, uninscribed, upright grave-markers. These average .3m high. Henry noted a fragment of a quern-stone among the graves (1957, 74), but this is no longer apparent. 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. 1018. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE079-050 Hut site
  Description

  In upland pasture in a terraced field on the E slopes of Bentee. On the upper terrace, which measures 20m long and 1.2m above a second terrace, is a drystone circular hut. The floor of the hut is 1m below the level of the surrounding terrace and measures 4.1m in diameter internally. The lintelled opening, .8m high x .7m wide, to a drystone-built souterrain (KE079-050001-) is located in the S face of the terrace. Access is gained to a long curving passage that averages .95m high and .7m wide; its well-built slightly corbelled walls are roofed by a series of slabs and feature a basal row of intermittent uprights and boulders. The passage extends N for 2.7m, where it narrows slightly and curves neatly to E to extend for a further 4.2m. It curves again to N for 3.5m, and close to its NE angle is an inaccessible creep way, beyond which an infilled passage extends E for at least 2m. 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. 1293. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE079-050001 Souterrain
  Description

  For descriptive account see O'Sullivan and Sheehan (1996, 404, no. 1293). 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

• KE079-121 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  This site is located on the lower NE slopes of Bentee mountain and commands a fine view of the estuary of the Ferta river to N. An almost oval-shaped area, measuring 6.2m N-S x 7.2m E-W, is enclosed by a fosse and by a poorly preserved external bank. The overall diameter of the site averages 12m. The bank is best preserved at W, where it measures 1.6m wide and rises .25m externally. The fosse is flat-bottomed, varies in width from 1.3m to 2.5m, and averages .5m below the interior of the monument. The site's interior slopes steeply downwards to N. There is no apparent entrance to the site. 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. 441. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE079-122 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  A short distance E of KE079-121---- is a second well-preserved ring-barrow. It consists of a subcircular area, 5.2m in diameter E-W, which is enclosed by a fosse, measuring 1.2m wide and up to .7m deep, and by an external bank. The bank is not preserved on the uphill, S side of the site. It rises at N to a maximum external height of .75m, where it features a possible causewayed entrance, 1.6m wide. The overall diameter of the monument averages 12.25m. 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. 442. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Hillgrove, about 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Hillgrove

Area

405,612 m² (40.56 ha, 100.23 acres)

Civil parish

Caher, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Caher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,061 people lived in 819 households in the Caher electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cahersiveen, Carhan Lower, Carhan Upper, Inchiclogh, Knockaunrory

Placenames

Hillgrove 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.