Dunferris

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunferris, from 400 m² to 159,562 m² (15.96 ha, 39.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Dunferris 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.

• 24 Sept 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A MACHINERY/AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560870

• 15 Nov 2024Conditional

  OF (A) DEMOLISH EXISTING 2 STOREY DWELLING ON SITE (EIRCODE V31 ET61), (B) DEMOLISH EXISTING DERELICT SHED, (C) CONSTRUCT A NEW SHED, (D) DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, (E) CONSTRUCT A NEW 2 STOREY DWELLING WHICH WILL BE SERVED BY A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SANDCEL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS.

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460891

• 2 Aug 2024Conditional

  Retention permission to retain garage conversion, storage area/shower room to his house and associated site works all as built

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460514

• 5 Apr 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT STABLES, PADDOCK AND UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT TANK ALL WITH ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 17299

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cashen River Estuary 001340

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dunferris.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Dunferris, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dunferris.

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

Name

Dunferris · Dún Fhearghasa

Area

644,691 m² (64.47 ha, 159.31 acres)

Civil parish

Lisselton, and its townlands

Barony

Iraghticonnor

Electoral division

Urlee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

376 people lived in 148 households in the Urlee electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackparks, Gortagurrane West, Gortnaskeha, Lisladraun, Mweevoo, Rahoonagh, Rathroe

Placenames

Dunferris 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.