Killerk West
Killerk West is a townland in the civil parish of Killone, barony of Islands, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Cill Eirc Thiar.
- Area
- 92.7 ha
- 229 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 7,045 m² (0.7 ha, 1.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killerk West, from 95 m² to 206,214 m² (20.62 ha, 50.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Killerk 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
28 Jul 2025Refused
to build a new house, install a waste water treatment system and all associated site and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25246
5 Mar 2025Conditional
for the construction of a new dwelling house and garage complete with a new entrance, sewage treatment system and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560101
30 Apr 2024Refused
for the construction of a new dwelling house and garage complete with a new entrance, sewage treatment system and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460188
22 Nov 2023N/a
for the construction of a new dwelling house and garage complete with a new entrance, sewage treatment system and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2360492
23 Oct 2023Conditional
(Reference No. P22/771), to construct dwelling house, garage, entrance and foul sewer treatment system and percolation area, plus all ancillary site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Clare County Council, 23541
30 Aug 2022Conditional
to construct dwelling house, garage, entrance and foul sewer treatment system and percolation area, plus all ancillary site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22771
28 Mar 2019Refused
to construct a new dwelling house and garage complete with a new entrance, sewage treatment system and ancillary works.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19223
8 Jan 2018Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house and garage complete with a new entrance, sewage treatment system and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 185
24 Mar 2017Refused
PERMISSION to replace existing cottage with the construction of a passive dwelling house including associated site works. The dwelling will comprise of a single storey living and sleeping accommodation with adjoining garage.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17214
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 Killerk West.
Recorded monuments
- CL041-131 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.
- CL041-132 Enclosure
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.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killerk 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Killerk West, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killerk West.
- 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
No address of the register names Killerk West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Killerk West · Cill Eirc Thiar
- Area
- 926,899 m² (92.69 ha, 229.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Islands
- Electoral division
- Killone, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 629 people lived in 211 households in the Killone electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caherea, Cloonmore, Cragbrien, Killerk East, Knockanira, Reaghfa, Shannacool
- Placenames
- Killerk 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.