Murreagh

258 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Murreagh, from 1 m² to 104,644 m² (10.46 ha, 25.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 46 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 Murreagh 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.

• 1 Sept 2026Conditional

  I, Seán Tadhg Ó Gairbhí, intend to apply to Kerry County Council for retention permission and permission for development at Creidne, An Mhuiríoch, Baile na nGall, Co. Chiarraí. The development will consist of retention permission to retain an element of the works constructed on site to date, including the as-built front porch and extensions to the existing dwelling house, and permission to complete the works as outlined in the drawings submitted, including external finishes, internal completion works and all associated site works.

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660835

• 16 Jul 2026N/a

  Retain an element of the works constructed on site to date, including the as-built front porch and extensions to the existing dwelling house, and permission to complete the works as outlined in the drawings submitted, including external finishes, internal completion works and all associated site works

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660672

• 3 Jul 2026Conditional

  to erect a 54m high self-supporting lattice structure together with antennae, dishes and associated ground-based equipment all enclosed by security fencing and to remove the existing 62m high-stayed mast at the same location.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660620

• 30 Jun 2026N/a

  INVALID: To erect a 54m high self-supporting lattice structure together with antennae, dishes and associated ground-based equipment all enclosed by security fencing and to remove the existing 62m high-stayed mast at the same location.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660602

• 18 Jun 2026N/a

  retain an element of the works constructed on site to date, including the as-built front porch and extensions to the existing dwelling house, and permission to complete the works as outlined in the drawings submitted, including external finishes, internal completion works and all associated site works

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660559

• 19 May 2025N/a

  INVALID APPLICTION

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 25125

• 7 Mar 2025N/a

  Permission for the Following 1) To Demolish Four Dwellinghouses, two Chalets/Houses and to Remove Mobile Home 2) To Construct Nine Dwellinghouses with Associated Site Development Works at An Mhuiroch, Dingle, Co. Kerry

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560158

• 21 Jan 2025Refused

  TO (A) CONSTRUCT NEW SHED, (B) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2510

• 12 Jan 2024Refused

  Retention Permission for as Built Extension

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460014

• 10 Nov 2023Conditional

  a) Athchóiriú agus cur leis an dtigh fé mar atá le hathruithe ingearchlú b) Díchoimisiúnú a dhéanamh ar an dabhach séarachais atá ann fé láthair c)Aonad nua coireála meicniúil agus scagaire snasúcháin a chur isteach agus d)Tógáil agus cóiriú a dhéanamh ar na hoibreacha suímh uile a ghabhann leis an Obair agus e) cead coinneála chun an tigh, an bothán agus oibreacha suímh a ghabhann leo, a choimeád laistigh do theorainneacha leasaithe an suímh To construct small extensions and elevational changes incorporating insulation upgrades to an existing dwelling. As part of the refurbishment works it is proposed that the existing septic tank be upgraded and a new treatment system installed. Retain dwelling and shed within revised site boundaries

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360305

• 17 Oct 2023Conditional

  (1) REMOVE THE EXISTING PITCHED ROOF FROM THE EXISTING SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AT THE WEST SIDE OF THE EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING (2)CONSTRUCT A NEW FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION (23.4 SQM) OVER WITH A PITCHED ROOF WHICH WILL CONTAIN A BEDROOM AND ENSUITE (3) INSTALL A CANOPY OVER THE EXISTING ENTRANCE DOOR TO FRONT (SOUTH) ELEVATION, (4) INSTALL A CANTILEVERED BALCONY TO WEST SIDE OF PROPOSED FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION AND (5) CARRY OUT INTERMANL ALTERATION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 231050

• 14 Jan 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2215

• 23 Nov 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION THE SIDE OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SERVICES

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 211335

• 29 Jun 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY A WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT DISCHARGING INTO A SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALSO TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21717

• 10 May 2021Conditional

  CONSTURCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR/SIDE OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE & ALSO TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND (B) RETAIN A GARDEN STORAGE SHED WHICH SERVES THE ABOVE MENTIONED EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21498

• 19 Mar 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO OUR DWELLING, INCLUDING ASSOCIATED ALTERTIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS AND WINDOWS, INSTAL 4 NO. VELUX ROOF WINDOWS OVER THE KITCHEN AREA, AND TO REPLACE THE EXISTING SLATE ROOF FINISH, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO OUR DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21280

• 11 May 2020N/a

  CONSTRUCT A NEW FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION TO OUR SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, AND TO EXTEND THE LIVING ROOM AND ENTRANCE AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS AND WINDOWS, AND TO REPLACE THE EXISTING SLATE ROOF FINISH, AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, TO OUR DWELLING

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 20424

• 21 Feb 2020Refused

  (01) CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND A STAND-ALONE DOMESTIC GARAGE. (02) CONSTRUCT A NEW SITE ACCESS AND DRIVEWAY FROM THE PUBLIC ROAD TO PROPOSED SITE WITH SPLAYED ENTRANCE WALLS, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. (03) PROPOSED NEW CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20164

• 10 Dec 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION WHICH WILL BE CONNECTED TO THE PUBLIC FOUL SEWER AFTER ON-SITE TREATMENT, AND ALSO TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191251

• 2 Dec 2019Conditional

  (A)PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES AND (B )CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ALSO TO INCLUDE MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES CONSISTING OF WINDOW AND DOOR OPENING ALTERATIONS AND ALSO TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191224

• 15 Nov 2019Conditional

  (A) RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES, (B) FULL PERMISSION TO (1) CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) RENOVATE EXISTING DETACHED OUTHOUSE BUILDING TO USE AS A UTILITY / SHED WHICH WILL BE ANCILLARY TO THE DWELLING HOUSE AND (3) NECESSARY REMEDIAL WORKS TO EXISTING COASTAL BOUNDARY PROTECTION AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191166

• 29 Oct 2019Refused

  MODIFY AND EXTEND EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191103

• 14 Jun 2019Conditional

  (A) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN THE EXISTING HOUSE ON THE SITE WITHIN REVISED BOUNDARIES. (B) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE ON THE NEWLY CREATED PLOT INCLUDING A CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19625

• 23 May 2018Conditional

  (A) CHANGE THE USE OF THE POST OFFICE TO 2 NO. BEDROOMS ANCILLARY TO THE B AND B, (B) CARRY OUT MINOR CHANGES TO THE ELEVATIONS OF THE BUILDING, (C) REMOVE SIGNAGE ASSOCIATED WITH THE POST OFFICE FROM THE BUILDING AND THE SITE AND (D) CARRY OUT ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPEMENT. (CEAD PHEANÁIL CHUN (A) ATHRÚ ÚSÁIDE AR AN OIFIG PHOIST AGUS AN SIOPA, GO 2 UIMHIR SEOMRA LEAPAN, LE H-ÚSAID, MAR LEABA AGUS BREICFEASTA, (B) MION ATHRAITHE A DHEANAMH AR AN FHOIRGNEAMH, (C) NA COMHARTHAÍ A BHAINEANN LEIS ON OIFIG PHOIST AGUS SIOPA A THÓGAINT ÓN FHOIRGNEAMH AGUS ON LATHAIR, AGUS (D) DUL CHUN CINN LE GACH OBAIR A BHAINEANN LEIS AN FHORBAIRT)

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 18493

• 22 Sept 2017Conditional

  (A) AN BOTHAN A LEAGADH (B)AN TIGH A ATHRU AGUS A MEADU AR AN LATHAIR ((A) REMOVE SHED AND (B) ALTER AND EXTEND HOUSE)

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17936

The 25 most recent of 31 applications.

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Dingle Peninsula SPA 004153
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Smerwick Harbour Sandhills And Marshes 001958

Recorded monuments

• KE033-024 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  Possible promontory fort described in 2002 as follows; ‘A low-lying southwest-facing short broad headland shows faint signs of an earlier bank and associated fosse crossing the neck. Two small grassy islets are accessible only at low water and they suggest that the headland was once larger. A modern earthen field bank has topped the earlier enclosing element and faint remains of a bank around the perimeter shows evidence of recent erosion. The shore is accessible from the interior with some difficulty. The immediate area is one of gently undulating fertile pasture divided by drystone walls. A disused roadway runs along the cliff edge. Several similar headlands nearby are also suitable for defence but no indication of early remains can be seen. It is possible that this headland gave its name to the nearby Doneen Pier. The insignificant remains on this headland means it remains in the list of possible defended headlands’ (Casey 2002, 12, no. A).

• KE042-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 28.6m N-S, 29.8m E-W A roughly circular rath enclosed by an earthen bank and fosse and a possible outer bank. It is situated on low-lying ground at the E side of Smerwick Harbour. The inner bank rises up to 2.4m above the bottom of the fosse and up to 1.3m above the interior. It is revetted internally with drystone masonry. The fosse is from 2.4 to 3.87m wide and from .15 to .5m deep below the external ground level. An outer bank is present for a distance of 4.5m at W. It is .97m high above the bottom of the fosse, .75m high above the external ground level and 2.1m wide at base. This feature may formerly have continued around the entire perimeter as the landowner vaguely remembers a 'low wall' enclosing the site. Two opposed entrance gaps to E and W, now blocked by drystone walling, may be secondary features. A 3rd entrance faces SSE. It consists of an ill-defined causeway across the fosse and a 1.4m wide gap through the bank. The gap was lined with drystone walling now no more than 2 courses high. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 515. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 4/2000).

• KE042-005 Clochan
  Description

  Located in the low-lying land at the E side of Smerwick Harbour, this structure was discovered in the course of clearing the field for tillage in 1967 and was subsequently inspected by O'Kelly (UCC). The structure consisted of a circular enclosure, 3m in diameter internally, defined by drystone walling, up to 1m high, its top flush with the external ground level. Where best preserved the upper courses of the wall were slightly corbelled. On the W side was a drystone-lined entrance measuring .8 to 1m in width. A little to E of the centre of the structure was a sub-rectangular pit c. 1m E-W x c. 1.3m N-S x c. 0.7m deep. This feature was lined with upright slabs of sandstone with a little drystone walling at the top on the N side. The sides of the pit were held at the top edge by slabs laid flat on the sand. The land-owner had cleared out the pit to a depth of .4m leaving a deposit .3m deep. This consisted of burnt material striated yellow, grey and black, indicating that successive fires had been lit in the pit. There was some evidence that this burnt material had spread out from the edge of the pit to the base of the enclosing wall but the stratification had been greatly disturbed. There were no finds. The structure could not be definitely classified but it was suggested that it may have been the foundation of a clochaun or possibly a corn-drying kiln. There is a local tradition that wheat was grown in these fields about 200 years ago. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1524. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

• KE042-007 Burial
  Description

  Graves were apparently discovered in the sandy ground now occupied by the basketball pitch near Murreagh (local information). The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 212. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 4 August 2013

• KE042-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 27.8m Lisroe/An Lios Rua: A univallate rath situated on low-lying land about 450m E of Smerwick Harbour. The enclosing bank, composed of fine earth and sand, is a maximum of 2.25m high externally and 1.1m high internally. It is faced internally with drystone masonry along its E half. An external fosse, up to 3.15m wide and .35m deep, is present intermittently. The entrance gap at ENE is now only .4m wide. Wind-blown sand has accumulated against the inner face of the bank forming a mound or 'berm' up to .7m high and 4.5m wide. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 514. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE042-009 Enclosure
  Description

  Lismore/An Lios Mór: There is no visible trace of the circular univallate enclosure marked on the 1st edition of the OS map and described in the OSNB (Kilmalkedar, 39) as 1.5 chains (30.16m) in diameter and composed of earth. On the 2nd edition it is marked 'site of, but the W half of the bank was shown as a solid line, and on an aerial photograph taken in 1949 (Ministry of Defence, V. 158/93) this W portion is still visible and the E portion appears as a crop-mark. It was situated on low-lying, sandy ground on the E side of Smerwick Harbour. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 728. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE042-177 Burial ground
  Description

  In September 1948, four lintel graves (c. L 2m; Wth 0.75m) were discovered during the construction of a new house in Murreagh village. The burials were at a depth of c. 1m below ground surface, in sea sand. The burials, occuring in a group of three with one a few metres south, were all extended and aligned west-east, with the head to west. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol. 2, 47-48) Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 28 January 2013

Architectural heritage

• House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Group of detached buildings, built c. 1860, about a courtyard possibly originally thatched and originally forming a clachan. Detached two-bay single-storey rubble stone-built house to north with corrugated-iron roof and two-bay single-storey recessed end bay to north, now in use as outbuilding. Detached two-bay single-storey rubble stone-built building to south with corrugated-iron roof, now in use as outbuilding. Pitched corrugated-iron sheeting to roofs with cement parapets to gables. Uncoursed rubble stone walls with remains of render to gable walls. Timber door to south building. Stream to west side of site.

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 Murreagh, 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 Murreagh.

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

Name

Murreagh · An Mhuiríoch

Area

1,565,988 m² (156.6 ha, 386.96 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmalkedar, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaguiny

Electoral division

Kilmalkedar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

514 people lived in 216 households in the Kilmalkedar electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 33% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardamore, Ballylusky, Carrig, Emlagh, Gallarus

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Murreagh 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.