Kilkee West

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilkee West, from 1,282 m² to 132,025 m² (13.2 ha, 32.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilkee West in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

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

• 9 Apr 2021Conditional

  to build a new Dwelling, install a Wastewater Treatment Unit, create a new entrance onto the public road and all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21321

• 2 Mar 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and garage with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17143

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: Ballycullinan, Old Domestic Building SAC 002246

Recorded monuments

• CL025-118 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL025-123 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In a flat area in reclaimed pasture. Hachured as a ringfort on the 1840 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). On inspection in 1999 an arc of outer facing stones (chord 10m) were noted at what would have been the N perimeter of the enclosure along a laneway. Spoil has been dumped against this boundary. Compiled by: Mary Tunney   Date of upload: 1 December 2025

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilkee West.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Kilkee West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Kilkee West · Cill Chaoi Thiar

Area

561,553 m² (56.16 ha, 138.76 acres)

Civil parish

Ruan, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Ruan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ruan electoral division: 767 people in 276 households; 84% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloona, Cloonfeaghra, Drumcavan, Kilkee East

Placenames

Kilkee West 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.