Ardfert Oughter

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardfert Oughter, from 1,963 m² to 173,732 m² (17.37 ha, 42.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Ardfert Oughter 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.

• 13 May 2024Conditional

  planning Permission to a) Construct a new dwelling and detached garage b) install a new septic tank and percolation area, c) construct a vehicular site entrance and d) construct all associated site works at Commons West, Ardfert, Co. Kerry

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460293

• 3 Apr 2023Conditional

  DEMOLISH AN EXISTING DWELLING, DECOMMISSION SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND TO CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING, GARAGE/STORE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23361

• 26 Aug 2022Refused

  DEMOLISH AN EXISTING DWELLING, DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND TO CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING GARAGE/STORE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITEWORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 22897

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 the townland of Ardfert Oughter.

Recorded monuments

• KE020-063 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 22m N-S, 25m E-W Situated SW of KE020-064---- in the same field, two fieldbanks touch this site on the E and W side. This circular univallate ringfort is enclosed by a well-defined earth and stone bank, 5m wide and rising to an average of 1.9m above the external ground level and 1.5m above the interior. In the N sector of the interior is an oval shaped house site (KE020-063001-) constructed of stone; it is 4.8m N-S and 4.2m E-W, with walls .6m-1m thick. About 2m to the W of this lies a sub-oval house site (KE020-063002-) 3.8m N-S and 4m E-W; the walls here are also .6m-1m thick. Situated directly below the two stone structures are two depressions measuring 4m x 4.8m and 4.8m x 4.6m. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 668. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE020-063001 Hut site
  Description

  Situated SW of KE020-064---- in the same field, two fieldbanks touch KE020-063---- on the E and W side. This circular univallate ringfort is enclosed by a well-defined earth and stone bank. In the N sector of the interior is an oval shaped house site (KE020-063001-) constructed of stone; it is 4.8m N-S and 4.2m E-W, with walls .6m-1m thick. About 2m to the W of this lies a sub-oval house site (KE020-063002-) 3.8m N-S and 4m E-W; the walls here are also .6m-1m thick. Situated directly below the two stone structures are two depressions measuring 4m x 4.8m and 4.8m x 4.6m. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 668. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE020-063002 Hut site
  Description

  Situated SW of KE020-064---- in the same field, two fieldbanks touch KE020-063---- on the E and W side. This circular univallate ringfort is enclosed by a well-defined earth and stone bank. In the N sector of the interior is an oval shaped house site (KE020-063001-) constructed of stone; About 2m to the W of this lies a sub-oval house site (KE020-063002-) 3.8m N-S and 4m E-W; the walls here are also .6m-1m thick. Situated directly below the two stone structures are two depressions measuring 4m x 4.8m and 4.8m x 4.6m. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 668. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE020-064 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in the E half of a large field, this circular enclosure appears on the 1842 and 1897 OS maps. It shows up as a crop mark on the Air Corps aerial photographs (1949), but no visible trace survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 667. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ardfert Oughter, 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 low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_59 (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 Ardfert Oughter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Ardfert Oughter

Area

432,245 m² (43.22 ha, 106.81 acres)

Civil parish

Ardfert, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Ardfert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,100 people lived in 424 households in the Ardfert electoral division. 60% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brandonwell, Commons West, Graigue Glebe, Killorane

Placenames

Ardfert Oughter 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.