Castlelough

150 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlelough, from 29 m² to 67,459 m² (6.75 ha, 16.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 100 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M3District, Neighbourhood Centre (District, neighbourhood centre)
  Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Tourism & related (Tourism and related)
  Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Castlelough in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Special Protection Area: Killarney National Park SPA 004038
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE066-079 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a small limestone island (50m x 20m), now attached to the E shore of Castlelough Bay in Lough Leane by a narrow causeway (L 80m; Wth 10m). The fragmentary ivy-clad remains of a tower (max. H c. 6m) stand at the NE corner of the island. It is built of random rubble bonded by a lime mortar and stands directly on the bedrock. It consists of a rectangular block (8.9m N-S; 7.3m E-W) conjoined on its W side to a larger rectangular block (6.9m E-W; min. 10m N-S). The latter section was modified in the 19th century to create a viewing platform though these alterations are now largely ruinous. The E block contains a rectangular chamber (3.3m E-W; 2.6m N-S) whose SE corner is missing. In the thickness of its N wall are two vertical shafts which must once have served garderobes at a higher level; on the exterior N face is a wide arched opening which is probably associated with these shafts. At the N end of the W block is a chamber (3.8m E-W; 1.65m N-S) covered by a wicker-centred vault which has collapsed. The W half of this room's S wall has fallen but was probably the position of a doorway giving access to a larger room (4.2m E-W; min. 6m N-S) to the S. This latter room was covered by a wicker-centred vault, now almost entirely fallen. The E wall of this room does not survive though it extended at least 3.3m beyond the E block. The N wall of the W block is carried forward c. 1m beyond the line of the E block. Castlelough Castle (or Poolcastle) is now very fragmentary but was once a substantial tower house erected by the Mac Carthy More in the 15th/16th century (Barrington 1976, 204-5). The castle was reduced to its present state when razed by Parliamentary forces in 1652 (Anon. 1913, 83). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Castlelough, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_210 (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 Castlelough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Castlelough · Caisleán an Locha

Area

507,479 m² (50.75 ha, 125.4 acres)

Civil parish

Killarney, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Muckross, the unit of the census

Census 2022

881 people lived in 229 households in the Muckross electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagh, Cahernane, Carrigafreaghane, Coolclogher, Listymurragh, Poulnamuck

Placenames

Castlelough 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.