Chapel Quarter

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Chapel Quarter, from 73 m² to 1,452 m². The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.

• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Castleisland-Corca Dhuibhne Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 3 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
  Castleisland-Corca Dhuibhne Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 3 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S1Education
  Castleisland-Corca Dhuibhne Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 3 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 4 Dec 2024Conditional

  Planning Permission to (A) revise building design of proposed clubhouse previously granted under planning permission ref: 24/60296, (B) erect signage on the proposed clubhouse, along with connection to on site existing services with all associated site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460942

• 15 May 2024Conditional

  Retention Permission to Retain existing temporary changing cabins for use during construction period and Planning Permission to construct new dressing rooms, meeting room, sanitary facilities with ancillary rooms, connection to on site existing services with all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460296

• 25 Aug 2017Conditional

  (1) RETAIN AND COMPLETE PARTIAL DEMOLITIONS AND GROUND AND FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION RECONSTRUCTION (2) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT FIRST FLOOR AND SECOND FLOOR BEDROOM BLOCK EXTENSIONS (3) ALTER FRONT ENTRANCE AND STREETFRONT FACADE (4) DEMOLISH EXISTING BOTTLESTORE (5) CONSTRUCT NEW REAR ENTRANCE ALL WITH ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES AND ACCOMPANYING ACA REPORT

  Extension of duration · Kerry County Council, 119983

• 22 Feb 2017Conditional

  INSTALL AN ALL WEATHER SURFACE PLAYING PITCH AND ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 17149

• 6 Jan 2017Conditional

  (A) CHANGE USE OF EXISTING BETTING SHOP AND STORAGE AREA TO RESTAURANT WITH COMMERCIAL KITCHEN AND ANCILLARY ROOMS (B) ERECT NEW SIGNAGE (C) MAKE MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES, ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 174

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 Chapel Quarter.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Chapel Quarter.

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of Saint Stephen and Saint John, church/chapel, 1875–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan single- and double-height Gothic Revival style Roman Catholic church, begun 1880, with five-bay double-height nave, four-bay single-storey lean-to aisles to north and to south elevations, single-bay double-height transepts to north and to south with stepped buttresses, single-bay double-height lower polygonal apse to east gable end, two-bay single-storey sacristy projection to north-east, and entrance bay to west gable end. Renovated, c. 1910, with single-bay three-stage tower added to south-west on a square plan having stepped buttresses and limestone ashlar hexagonal broach spire. Extended to south-east, 1955-1956, comprising two-bay single-storey sacristy extension. Renovated and extended to north-west, 1961-1962, comprising single-bay single-storey mortuary chapel. Pitched slate roofs to nave and transepts, lean-to roofs to aisles, having profiled cast-iron gutters and square downpipes with decorative fixings and gable copings to pitched roofs. Rock-hewn snecked limestone ashlar walls with smooth-finished dressings. Lancets to aisles grouped in threes with smooth ashlar surrounds and linking string course. Paired lancets to clerestory with continuous hood moulding. Tracery windows to chancel, transepts and west façade. Projecting gabled doorcase with stepped Portland stone dressings. Two aisles to interior with pointed arched arcades on polished granite columns having marble pedestals and foliate capitals. Open profiled roof with openwork timber beams. Gallery to west end. Part-octagonal apse with mosaic tiling to walls. Chancel remodelled. Gateway, built c. 1885, to south-west comprising limestone ashlar piers with cast-iron gates, railings and curved name plate.

• Presentation Secondary School, school, 1895–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached H-plan four-bay single-storey schoolhouse, dated 1898, comprising two-bay single-storey recessed central block with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting flanking bays, two-bay single-storey recessed end bay to north-west and pair of four-bay single-storey returns to south-west. Pitched slate roof with gable copings, copper flashing and carved limestone springs. Rock-hewn limestone snecked ashlar walls with red brick quoins, moulded eaves course and limestone plaque inscribed "Convent National School 1898". Pointed arch openings with red brick arches and reveals. Brick relieving arches to side gables. Triple round-headed windows to front gabled bays with brick hood mouldings. Timber casement windows with sloping limestone sills. Hood moulding to doorway. Gateway, built c. 1900, to north-east comprising limestone ashlar piers with cast-iron gates and railings.

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 Chapel Quarter, 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_260 (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 Chapel Quarter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Chapel Quarter

Area

29,854 m² (2.99 ha, 7.38 acres)

Civil parish

Castleisland, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Castleisland, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,392 people lived in 1,351 households in the Castleisland electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cahereen East, Castleview, Moanmore, Tonbwee

Placenames

Chapel Quarter 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.