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Kerry County Council grants permission for 11-hectare solar farm at NATIONAL OIL RESERVES AGENCY, TARBERT OIL STORAGE PLAN, Co. Kerry
16 October 2025 · Permission.ie Planning Wire · from the Kerry County Council planning register · published 1 September 2026
Kerry County Council granted permission on 16 October 2025 for an 11-hectare solar farm at NATIONAL OIL RESERVES AGENCY, TARBERT OIL STORAGE PLAN, an application first lodged on 12 May 2025.
Key facts
- Reference
- 25115
- Planning authority
- Kerry County Council
- Location
- NATIONAL OIL RESERVES AGENCY, TARBERT OIL STORAGE PLAN, TARBERT ISLAND TARBERT CO KERRY
- Received
- 12 May 2025
- Application type
- PERMISSION
- Site area
- 11 hectares
- Status
- APPLICATION FINALISED
- Decision
- CONDITIONAL
- Decision date
- 16 October 2025
- Council file
- View on the Kerry County Council planning portal
In context
It is one of 11 solar farm applications Kerry County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 335 nationally. Of the 573 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 92% were granted.
What happens next
The applicant, or anyone who made a submission on the application, can appeal the decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála within four weeks of 16 October 2025. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues.
The development description, as lodged
Verbatim from the Kerry County Council register. This is the source for every figure in the story above.
CONSTRUCT AND INSTALL A GROUND MOUNTED SOLAR ARRAY CONSISTING OF 296 SOLAR PV PANELS ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS LOCATED WITHIN THE SITE BOUNDARY
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Source: Permission.ie analysis of the national planning register, "Kerry County Council grants permission for 11-hectare solar farm at NATIONAL OIL RESERVES AGENCY, TARBERT OIL STORAGE PLAN, Co. Kerry", 16 October 2025. https://www.permission.ie/news/kerry-county-council/25115
<p>Source: <a href="https://www.permission.ie/news/kerry-county-council/25115">Kerry County Council grants permission for 11-hectare solar farm at NATIONAL OIL RESERVES AGENCY, TARBERT OIL STORAGE PLAN, Co. Kerry</a>, Permission.ie analysis of the national planning register, 16 October 2025.</p>
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