Cloonydonigan Lower

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonydonigan Lower, from 51 m² to 168,618 m² (16.86 ha, 41.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Cloonydonigan Lower 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.

• 21 Jun 2026N/a

  SPARE NUMBER

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 22646

• 16 Apr 2025Conditional

  Retention Permission to retain (A) a new 2 storey dwelling house which is serviced by a Mechanical wastewater Treatment Pumped Unit with Sand Polishing Filter and all ancillary site works and (B) a Domestic Garage and (C) alterations to widen an existing site entrance.

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560301

• 12 Jul 2023N/a

  INVALID APPLICATION Planning Permission (A) to construct a new 2 Storey Dwelling which will be serviced by a Mechanical Wastewater Treatment Pumped Unit with Sand Polishing Filter and all necessary ancillary site works and (B) to Construct a Domestic Garage all at Cloonydonigan Lower, Killarney, Co. Kerry - Ireland.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2360033

• 18 May 2022N/a

  ALTER THE HOUSE DESIGN WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED FULL PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REG NO 19/450 AND (B) FOR PLANNING PERMMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 22535

• 23 May 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SPLIT LEVEL TWO STOREY DOMESTIC DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND TO INSTALL A MECHANICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PUMPED UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER, TO WIDEN AN EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE AND TO FORM A NEW ACCESS ROAD

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19540

• 24 Apr 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCT A SPLIT LEVEL TWO STOREY DOMESTIC DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS, AND TO INSTALL A MECHANICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PUMPED UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER, TO WIDEN AN EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE, AND TO FORM A NEW ACCESS ROAD

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 19414

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: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343

Recorded monuments

• KE058-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the break of a S-facing slope. A circular area (c. 24m E-W) defined by the faint trace of a bank W-E and by a scarp (H 1.6m to the break of slope at S) E-W. The bank and scarp are covered with overgrowth, making inspection difficult. The interior is partially covered with overgrowth and slopes down to the S. There is a possible souterrain (KE058-034001-) in the NW quadrant. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE058-034001 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (KE058-034----). According to the landowner, the opening to a souterrain the NW quadrant of the rath was covered by a stone. There are no visible remains of this possible souterrain. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE058-040001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope, overlooking the valley of the Glanooragh River to the S. This rath is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) and named 'Toberaspagher Fort' on the 1846 OS 6-inch map and 'Toberasphagher Fort' (Site of) on the 1894 OS 6-inch map. The remains of the bank of the rath are visible as a low rise along the W arc and may be partly incorporated into the field boundary at E. In the 1840s, this rath was described as 'remarkable' and it was noted that it derived its name 'from a handsome spring well' (KE058-040002-) which 'is in the eastern extremity of it' (OSNB, Kilcredane, 15). There is a possible souterrain (KE058-040003-) in the rath. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE058-040002 Well
  Description

  In a rath (KE058-040001-). In the 1840s it was recorded that Toberaspagher Fort derives its name from 'a handsome spring well which is in the eastern extremity of it out of which issues a little stream of pure spring' (OSNB, Kilcredane, 15). According to the landowner, there was a well or spring here up to some years ago but there are no visible remains of it. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE058-040003 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (KE058-040001-). There are no visible remains of this possible souterrain. Its location was pointed out by the landowner as being immediately S of a field boundary. It was discovered when it caved in during ploughing; the landowner's father crawled along it for some distance at that time. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cloonydonigan 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_182 (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 Cloonydonigan Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Cloonydonigan Lower

Area

377,061 m² (37.71 ha, 93.17 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcredane, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Ballyhar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

200 people lived in 74 households in the Ballyhar electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagh, Ballydeenlea, Ballyhar, Cloonydonigan Upper, Dromdoohig More, Knockanoulort

Placenames

Cloonydonigan 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.