Inch West
Townland in the civil parish of Fanlobbus, barony of Carbery East (West Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Na hInsí Thiar
- Area
- 119.4 ha
- 295 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 195,169 m² (19.52 ha, 48.23 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inch West, from 1,701 m² to 698,549 m² (69.85 ha, 172.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Inch 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
17 Aug 2026Invalid - case closed
Construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2163
4 Oct 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/7204
25 Jun 2004Conditional
Dwelling, domestic garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4685
15 Sept 2000Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 00/5620
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 Inch West.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Inch West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Inch 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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Inch 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Inch West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Inch West · Na hInsí Thiar
- Area
- 1,194,142 m² (119.41 ha, 295.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Fanlobbus, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Milane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Milane electoral division: 185 people in 66 households; 89% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Derryduff, Inch East, Kilbarry, Milane, Sillahertane
- Placenames
- Inch 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.