Castletown
Castletown is a townland in the civil parish of Kilflyn, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry.
Parcel 5731605
- Area
- 190 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 266 m².
- Zoning
- M2 Village Centre (Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026) The objective
- Townland
- Castletown
Planning applications on this parcel
4 Sept 2024Conditional
Permission for Change of use of existing ground floor retail units No. 3 and 4 to residential apartment use; change of use of two first floor office units and store to residential apartment use; fit out undeveloped residential area on first floor to create three residential apartments; carry out alterations to external elevations (door and window opes; six No. balconies) and all associated site works at Castletown, Kilflynn, Co. Kerry.
Permission, 6 homes · Kerry County Council, 2460659
27 Nov 2018Conditional
CHANGE THE USE OF EXISTING GROUND FLOOR RETAIL UNITS NO. 3 AND 4 TO RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT USE; CHANGE OF USE OF TWO FIRST FLOOR OFFICE UNITS AND STORE TO RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT USE; FIT OUT UNDEVELOPED RESIDENTIAL AREA ON FIRST FLOOR TO CREATE THREE RESIDENTIAL APARTMENTS; CARRY OUT ALTERATIONS TO EXTERNAL ELEVATIONS (DOOR AND WINDOW OPES; SIX NO. BALCONIES) AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 5 homes · Kerry County Council, 181159
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- KE021-142 Church
Description
Described by Toal (1995, no. 964) as follows; 'According to John O'Donovan (1841), the site of an old church was occupied by a modern Protestant one. Nothing is known about St Flann, after whom the church was named, nor is his feast day remembered. No surface trace of this old church can be seen today. The later church is being restored. See also Dooncaha (KE003-037----), Killarida (KE010-047001-), Ardfert Cathedral (KE020-046002-), Listowel (KE010-061----), Lerrig North (KE020-019----), Killeacle (KE020-020001-), Kilgulbin East (KE021-051----), Ballynageragh (KE015-084----), Feeans (KE014-013----)'. In 2012 a graveyard survey carried out by Laurence Dunne recorded the following details: 'Kilflynn church and graveyard is situated on sloping ground in the centre of the village of Kilflynn. The name Kilflynn-Cill Floinn translates as ‘the church of Saint Flann’ or ‘Floinn’, an early Irish saint of whom there is very little known (O’Donovan 1841, 36). A Holy Well, Toberflyn (KE022-023----), dedicated to the saint is situated circa 0.7km, to the northeast in the townland of Cloonnafinnela. St. Flann is said to have bestowed on the well the power to cure blindness. Ó Danachair records that Toberflyn, Ó Danachair states that the well is visited on the May Eve and is said to have curative powers for sore eyes. Formerly, rags were left as offerings. Some stones nearby are said to be the ruins of St. Flann’s hermitage. The legend recounts that when St. Flann became blind in his old age he did not ask for a cure for himself but gave to the well the power of curing blindness (Ó Danachair 1958,158). Given the early seventh century date for the saint, it is possible that there may have been an early medieval ecclesiastic enclosure in Kilflynn for which no relict remains survive. The sub-rectangular graveyard of Kilflynn today is small neat and tidy albeit the southwestern corner and southern boundary limits are very overgrown bumpy and unmanaged. In the high medieval period the church was recorded for taxation purposes...Killaquyn church, in Offlannan deanery, in 1302, was called at 13s. 4d for tithes (King 1986, 191). However, Hickson is of the opinion that Killaquyn was a Hospitaller church and possibly refers to Ballymaquin near Causeway (Hickson 1883, 302). Charles Smith (1756, 39) recorded the church as upstanding and in use in 1756…’Kilflin, vicarial, the church in ruins. Patron: The Earl of Orrery’. The upstanding church today is protestant church which was built in 1811 with a later addition of a bell tower added in 1840. It is surrounded by a graveyard occupied by both Catholic and Protestant burials. St. Columba’s church was restored between 1990-1993 and is now used as a community hall. The building is in good order with forward rib pointing'. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 13 June 2022
- KE021-142001 Graveyard
Description
In 2012 a graveyard survey carried out by Laurence Dunne recorded the following details: 'Kilflynn church and graveyard is situated on sloping ground in the centre of the village of Kilflynn. The name Kilflynn-Cill Floinn translates as ‘the church of Saint Flann’ or ‘Floinn’, an early Irish saint of whom there is very little known (O’Donovan 1841, 36). Given the early seventh century date for the saint, it is possible that there may have been an early medieval ecclesiastic enclosure in Kilflynn for which no relict remains survive. The sub-rectangular graveyard of Kilflynn today is small neat and tidy albeit the southwestern corner and southern boundary limits are very overgrown bumpy and unmanaged. The upstanding church today is protestant church which was built in 1811 with a later addition of a bell tower added in 1840. It is surrounded by a graveyard occupied by both Catholic and Protestant burials. St. Columba’s church was restored between 1990-1993 and is now used as a community hall. The building is in good order with forward rib pointing. The main entrance into the modern graveyard is via a pair of iron gates between two robust square limestone piers, capped and in good order. The gates are set within a rounded recessed entranceway that provides very limited vehicular access directly beside the church. A mixed concrete block and rubble stone wall and flat capping extends north from the entrance and returns west. The wall is very low comprising of only two courses in places and has a pedestrian gapped entrance on the rounded corner. The south boundary wall is constructed with local rubble limestone and is covered in ivy and mature trees. The west boundary comprises a 1.4m high rubble stone capped wall in good condition. Apart from some ivy on the older rubble stone wall there are no breaches and are in general good order. There are twenty-three, (23), tombs within the old medieval graveyard disposed around outside the south and south-western limits of the graveyard with only the Parkinson family tomb (TB7) situated on the north of the church. The tombs are, for the most part, of the ‘strong-box’ and gabled style. Two are ashlar or partially ashlar while the remainder are constructed with rubble stone and rendered or partially rendered. There are 106 recorded named headstones in total at Kilflynn. The earliest headstone recorded in the medieval burial ground (HS 106) records the death of Phillip Carrell who died in 1735. There is only one horizontal rectangular graveslab in Kilflynn graveyard and is illegible. There are eight unhewn gravemarkers in Kilflynn graveyard. Five of which are located to the south of the church where the ground is more irregular and the grass higher. There is a single perforated or holed stone in the western limits of Kilflynn graveyard at the rear of the church'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 June 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 74.4 ha
- 184 acres
- Land parcels
- 81
- registered freehold, median 1,242 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castletown, from 25 m² to 246,717 m² (24.67 ha, 60.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space, Park (Open space, park)
Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Sept 2024Conditional
Retention Permission to a) Retain elevation changes to the existing dwelling b) Retain existing domestic shed as constructed And Planning Permission to c) construct an extension to the existing shed, to include a carport
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460668
4 Sept 2024Conditional
Permission for Change of use of existing ground floor retail units No. 3 and 4 to residential apartment use; change of use of two first floor office units and store to residential apartment use; fit out undeveloped residential area on first floor to create three residential apartments; carry out alterations to external elevations (door and window opes; six No. balconies) and all associated site works at Castletown, Kilflynn, Co. Kerry.
Permission, 6 homes · Kerry County Council, 2460659
30 Jul 2024N/a
Retention Permission to a) Retain elevation changes to the existing dwelling b) Retain existing domestic shed as constructed And Planning Permission to c) construct an extension to the existing shed, to include a carport
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2460504
19 Oct 2021Conditional
RETAIN EXISTING STRUCTURES AS CONSTRUCTED WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES AND PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH EXISTING FLAT ROOF ANNEX TO REAR (B) RENOVATE AND EXTEND EXISTING DWELLING THE EXTENSIONS WILL CONSIST OF (1) PORCH TO FRONT (11)A FLAT ROOF ANNEX TO REAR (C) ELEVATIONAL CHANGES (D) ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS, INCLUDING CLOSING UP ONE ROADSIDE ENTRANCE AND INCREASING WIDTH OF OTHER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211188
2 Sept 2020Conditional
BUILD A PRIVATE SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AT SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND RENOVATE EXISTING PORCH AT FRONT OF DWELLING
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20789
8 May 2020Conditional
(1) RETENTION AND COMPLETE PARTIALLY BUILT KITCHEN EXTENSION (PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PERMISSION 02/1556) AND (2) RETAIN GARAGE/ SHED ON NORTH SIDE OF MY DWELLING HOUSE
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20421
27 Nov 2018Conditional
CHANGE THE USE OF EXISTING GROUND FLOOR RETAIL UNITS NO. 3 AND 4 TO RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT USE; CHANGE OF USE OF TWO FIRST FLOOR OFFICE UNITS AND STORE TO RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT USE; FIT OUT UNDEVELOPED RESIDENTIAL AREA ON FIRST FLOOR TO CREATE THREE RESIDENTIAL APARTMENTS; CARRY OUT ALTERATIONS TO EXTERNAL ELEVATIONS (DOOR AND WINDOW OPES; SIX NO. BALCONIES) AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 5 homes · Kerry County Council, 181159
7 Sept 2018Conditional
ERECT A NEW BUNGALOW COMPLETE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND FOR ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH SAME INCLUDING WIDENING EXISTING GATE TO FORM A NEW ENTRANCE ON TO SITE FROM EXISTING PUBLIC ROAK
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18873
28 May 2018Conditional
ERECT A STEEL SLURRY TOWER
Permission · Kerry County Council, 18506
26 Mar 2018Conditional
RETAIN EXISTING PRE-SCHOOL AND ALSO FULL PLANNING PERMISSION FOR ADDITIONAL PARKING SPACES AND NEW FIXED SIGNAGE FOR ADVERTISEMENT PURPOSES ONLY
Retention · Kerry County Council, 18269
21 Aug 2017Refused
BUILD A PRIVATE SHED AT SIDE OF EXISTING GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 17817
21 Jun 2017Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND OUTBUILDING, (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED GARAGE, (C) DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND CONNECT TO THE PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17579
6 Mar 2017Refused
RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, BOUNDARY WALL, ACCESS ROAD AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO BUILD A NEW SHED AT SIDE OF EXISTING GARAGE
Retention · Kerry County Council, 17192
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Castletown.
Recorded monuments
- KE021-036 Ringfort - rath
Description
This circular enclosure appears on the 1841-42 and 1898 OS maps. However, on the later edition it has been incorporated into fieldbanks on all sides except to the W. This site also shows up on the Geological Survey of Ireland's aerial photographs (1977), but no surface 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. 736. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE021-064 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a circular enclosure on the 1841-42 and 1898 OS maps, no visible trace of this site 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. 737. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE021-065 Ringfort - rath
Description
This circular enclosure is situated E of KE021-064----. It is marked on the 1841-42 and 1898 OS maps, and shows up clearly on the Geological Survey of Ireland's aerial photographs (1977). No surface 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. 738. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE021-066 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated SW of KE021-065---- in the same field, this circular enclosure is marked on the 1841-42 and 1898 OS maps. No surface 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. 739. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE021-067 Ringfort - rath
Description
Skenapisha Fort/Sceich na Pise (thorn-bush of the peas). This circular enclosure is marked on the 1841-42 OS map. On the later edition map of 1898 only a tiny section N-NW is faintly marked. No surface 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. 740. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
Architectural heritage
- Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cruciform-plan five-bay double-height Roman Catholic church, dated 1849, originally single-cell barn style. Comprising four-bay double-height nave with, two-bay single-storey sacristy to north elevation and having bellcote to west gable. Renovated and extended, 1935, with single-bay double-height transepts added to north and to south elevations. Renovated, 1979, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch added to west gable end. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, gable parapets and having cast-iron gutters, decorative hoppers and downpipes. Painted rendered walls with projecting eaves band. Pointed arch openings with hood mouldings, trefoil heads to some openings with painted rusticated surrounds. Leaded coloured glass panels. Rose window above entrance. Single and paired timber one-over-one pane sliding sash windows to sacristy, glazed with leaded panels of coloured glass. Cruciform-plan interior with shallow chancel. Open trussed roof with timber vault at crossing. Plastered walls with beading at dado level. Chancel reordered, retaining altar, reredos and lectern. Distinctive altar carved with high-relief figures. Concrete flagged steps and podium to front.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Castletown, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castletown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Castletown, Kilflynn5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Castletown
- Area
- 744,267 m² (74.43 ha, 183.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilflyn, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Kilfeighny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 993 people lived in 372 households in the Kilfeighny electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyconnell, Cloonnafinneela, Crotta, Drommakee, Fahavane, Glanballyma
- Placenames
- Castletown 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.