Commons of Dingle

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons of Dingle, from 15 m² to 126,993 m² (12.7 ha, 31.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Castleisland-Corca Dhuibhne Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 3 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 13 Oct 2023Conditional

  full planning permission to construct a dwelling house served by proprietary wastewater treatment system with all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360233

• 3 Oct 2023N/a

  full planning permission to construct a dwelling house served by proprietary wastewater treatment system with all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2360206

• 27 Jul 2023Conditional

  (A) RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED DWELLING HOUSE FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REG NO. 91/1451, AND (B) RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23852

• 15 Oct 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN AGRICULTURAL FARM ENTRANCE

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211172

• 26 Apr 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING CARRYING OUT ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18383

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: Mount Brandon SAC 000375
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mount Brandon 000375

Recorded monuments

• KE043-091 Hut site
  Description

  On W slopes of Ballysitteragh/Beennabrack mountain. A pair of conjoined circular drystone huts, with entrances at S but no communicating passage. Both huts have a low lintelled opening in their N walls, suitable only for small animals. D: 3.14m and 2.47m. H: 1.19m and .97m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1189. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

• KE043-091001 Hut site
  Description

  On W slopes of Ballysitteragh/Beennabrack mountain. A pair of conjoined circular drystone huts, with entrances at S but no communicating passage. Both huts have a low lintelled opening in their N walls, suitable only for small animals. D: 3.14m and 2.47m. H: 1.19m and .97m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1189. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

• KE043-094 Hut site
  Description

  A settlement complex occupying an area 130m E-W x c. 40m N-S, in the upper reaches of the Ballyheabought river valley. Only 2 of the 6 structures in the complex seem large enough for human habitation, the remainder being possibly outhouses or animal shelters. Also within the complex are some disused field walls and a single completely enclosed field. The 2 huts are of drystone construction, one oval (KE043-094001-), the other circular (KE043-094----). (1) D: 3.3 to 3.75m. H: .8m. T: 1.25 to 1.6m. (2) Considerably modified. D: 4m. H: 1.2m. T: 1.5 to 1.8m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1190. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

• KE043-094001 Hut site
  Description

  A settlement complex occupying an area 130m E-W x c. 40m N-S, in the upper reaches of the Ballyheabought river valley. Only 2 of the 6 structures in the complex seem large enough for human habitation, the remainder being possibly outhouses or animal shelters. Also within the complex are some disused field walls and a single completely enclosed field. The 2 huts are of drystone construction, one oval (KE043-094001-), the other circular (KE043-094----). (1) D: 3.3 to 3.75m. H: .8m. T: 1.25 to 1.6m. (2) Considerably modified. D: 4m. H: 1.2m. T: 1.5 to 1.8m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1190. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

• KE043-151 Hut site
  Description

  On W slopes of Ballysitteragh/Beennabrack mountain, about 35m E of the Ballyheabought river. A circular drystone hut. D: 2.8m. H: 1.5m. T: .81 to 1.23m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1191. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

• KE043-152 Hut site
  Description

  In rough mountain pasture on W slopes of Ballysitteragh/Beennabrack mountain. A circular corbelled drystone hut. D: 3.78m. H: 1.63m. T: 1.1 to 1.41m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1188. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

• KE043-153 Hut site
  Description

  In rough mountain pasture on S side of Ballyheabought river. A circular drystone hut of slightly corbelled construction. D: 3.3m. H: 1.8m. T: .85 to 1.3m. A lintelled recess, now blocked, probably communicated with a conjoined hut at SE, the latter now reduced to a stone-faced mound of stones with a slightly depressed centre. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1187. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

• KE043-153001 Hut site
  Description

  In rough mountain pasture on S side of Ballyheabought river. A conjoined hut at SE, the latter now reduced to a stone-faced mound of stones with a slightly depressed centre. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1187. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

• KE043-154 Hut site
  Description

  On the W slopes of the ridge forming the S side of the Ballyheabought river valley. A circular hut of corbelled drystone construction. D: 4.15m. H: 1.96m. T: 2 to 2.25m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1186. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

• KE043-159 Hut site
  Description

  On a boulder-strewn terrace on the S slopes of Ballysitteragh mountain. Very ruinous remains of a roughly circular drystone hut. D: 2.8 to 3.2m. H: .95m. T: c. 1.25m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1192. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

• KE043-219 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Knocknahoran/Cnoc an Chairn is said to derive its name from a cairn of stones which formerly crowned its summit (An Seabhac 1939, 18; McKenna 1979, 6). There is no trace of this now. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 233. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 4 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Commons of Dingle, 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_15 (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 Commons of Dingle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Commons of Dingle · Coimín an Daingin

Area

3,474,945 m² (347.49 ha, 858.68 acres)

Civil parish

Dingle, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaguiny

Electoral division

Glinn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,806 people lived in 654 households in the Glinn electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinasig, Ballybowler North, Ballyheabought, Ballynabooly, Coumbowler, Cullenagh, Farranflaherty, Killelane, Mullaghveal

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Commons of Dingle 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.