Carhan Lower
Carhan Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Caher, barony of Iveragh, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Cárthann Íochtarach.
Parcel 1222816
- Area
- 1,136 m²
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 218 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Carhan Lower
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 81.7 ha
- 202 acres
- Land parcels
- 179
- registered freehold, median 1,480 m²
- Zoning
- R1
- New/Proposed Residential
- Planning
- 20
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
179 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carhan Lower, from 23 m² to 70,684 m² (7.07 ha, 17.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R1New/Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
Kenmare Minicipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Feb 2025Conditional
Permission to Construct a Dwellinghouse at Reenrusheen Road, Carhan Lower, Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560081
8 Nov 2024Conditional
Permission to construct 10 semi-detached dwellings along with on site car parking, roadways, footpaths, landscaping and open spaces with all associated site works.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460875
22 Jul 2024Refused
Permission to construct a therapy clinic at Reenrusheen Road, Carhan Lower, Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460482
3 May 2024Conditional
TO CONSTRUCT A REAR EXTENSION ALONG WITH ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AT THEIR PROPERTY
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24181
20 Dec 2023Refused
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY A SEPTIC TANK AND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 231193
18 Oct 2022Refused
CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND TO RELOCATE THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE AND PERMISSION TO CONNECT TO THE PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221086
16 Sept 2022Conditional
TO PLACE A 40FT SHIPPING CONTAINER AT IVERAGH CO-OP. THE USE OF THE PROPOSED STORAGE CONTAINER IS TO STORE DRIED GOODS, IE, BOTTLES, PACKAGING AND WOULD BE ANCILLARY TO THE ADJACENT COMMERCIAL UNIT. THE PRPOOSED TIMEFRAME OF THE STORAGE CONTAINER IS THE DURATION OF THE 5 YEAR LEASE THAT IS AGREED WITH THE LANDLORD AND WILL BE MAINTAINED BY BEING PAINTED IN ITS ORIGINAL COLOUR ANNUALLY
Permission · Kerry County Council, 22978
29 Jul 2022Conditional
RETAIN EXISTING ACCESS, DWELLING HOUSE WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22811
27 Jul 2022Conditional
(1) RETAIN REAR ROOF SLOPE OF EXSTING DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 77/407 (2) PERMISSION FOR RETENTION TO RETAIN BAY WINDOW AS CONSTRUCTED ON NORTH EAST ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (3) PERMISSION TO CARRY OUT ALTERTIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 77/407 (4) PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH EXISTING STORAGE SHED AND CONSTRUCT NEW DOMESIC STORAGE SHED AND KENNEL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22794
25 Jul 2022Refused
CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, AND TO RELOCATE THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE, AND PERMISSION TO CONNECT TO THE PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22792
21 Jun 2022N/a
CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, AND TO RELOCATE THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE, AND PERMISSION TO CONNECT TO THE PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 22650
13 Dec 2021Conditional
DEVELOP A) NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ROAD, B) EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO BECOME PEDESTRIAN ENTRANCE, C) NEW ILLUMINATED SIGNAGE AT THE ENTRANCES AND D) INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 211436
6 Aug 2021Refused
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATIED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21910
21 Oct 2020Conditional
DEMOLISH RUIN OF HOUSE DAMAGED BY FIRE, AND TO CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND SANDCEL POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 201008
5 Oct 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY EXTENSION AT THE GABLE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AT THEIR SITE LOCATED
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20923
14 Sept 2020N/a
CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY EXTENSION AT THE GABLE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AT THEIR SITE LOCATED
Permission · Kerry County Council, 20835
7 May 2019Conditional
RETAIN EXTENSION TO HIS HOUSE
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19476
5 Apr 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE GABLE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18314
9 Nov 2017Conditional
BUILD EXTENSION ONTO EXISTING HOUSE AND TO BUILD A GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 171124
9 Jan 2017Refused
CONSTRUCT FOUR DORMER STYLE DWELLING HOUSES, INCLUDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROAD WITH ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 4 homes · Kerry County Council, 176
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Valencia River Estuary 001383
Recorded monuments
- KE079-048 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Tobernamanfune/Tobar na mBan Fionn: This spring well issues from the foot of a slight scarp in Carhan Woods on the N slopes of Bentee mountain. A series of stepping stones cross a stream at the approach to the well. Rounds were formerly made here, and local tradition holds that crying goddesses gather at the well on the 1st of May. See attached colour photographs courtesy of Amanda Clarke. 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. 1058. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013
Architectural heritage
- Carhan House, house, 1750–1790 · Regional interest
Description
Remains of detached five-bay two-storey rubble stone-built house, built c. 1770. Ruinous, c. 1870
- O'Connell Monument, monument, 1995–2000 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding monument, dated 1996, on a square plan with cast-bronze bust on inscribed cut-limestone pedestal. Signed (1996) by Alan Ryan Hall (b. 1944) of Valencia Island.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Carhan Lower, 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. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carhan Lower.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carhan Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Carhan Lower · Cárthann Íochtarach
- Area
- 816,992 m² (81.7 ha, 201.88 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, Hillgrove, Inchiclogh, Knockaunrory, Moneyduff
- Placenames
- Carhan Lower 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.