Kerry residentially zoned land named most expensive in Ireland

County Kerry has the most expensive residentially zoned land in Ireland, according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office reported by Radio Kerry. The median price for an acre of residentially zoned land in Kerry reached 727,053 euros. Residentially zoned land is land that a local authority has designated in a development plan as suitable for housing and residential use. [1]

Radio Kerry reported that the median price of an acre of residentially zoned land in Kerry was more than 460,000 euros above the national average. In 2025, the price of residentially zoned land in Kerry was 181 percent higher than the national average of 258,716 euros per acre. [1]

Property in County Kerry has seen high-value activity across the region. As FTMQ News reported earlier, Sammy's Restaurant and Beach Bar in Inch was sold for more than its asking price of 950,000 euros. Landowners along the 27-kilometre South Kerry Greenway scheme between Glenbeigh and Cahersiveen also received secondary payments following land acquisitions by Kerry County Council. [6][7]