Kilnahera West
Townland in the civil parish of Dromdaleague, barony of Carbery West (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Coill na hUidhre Thiar
- Area
- 46.9 ha
- 116 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 4,667 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilnahera West, from 86 m² to 204,336 m² (20.43 ha, 50.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Kilnahera 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
19 Apr 2024Withdrawn
Construction of a shed for use as a horse walker and for use as dry storage associated with the keeping of horses, and for construction of a dungstead to serve the proposed horse walker, and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/186
21 Jul 2023Refused
Construction of a storage shed for use as dry storage associated with the keeping of horses, and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/410
4 Jan 2018Refused
(a) To partially demolish outbuilding and permission for change of use of remainder to 2 no. Holiday units for short term let for same. (b) Permission for change of use of out building to holiday unit for short term let and extension to same, construct a vehicular entrance and private roadway to service proposed development, together with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/3
20 Dec 2017Incompleted application
a) Permission to partially demolish outbuilding and for permission for change of use of remainder to 2 no. holiday units for short term let for same. (b) Permission for change of use of outbuilding to holiday unit for short term let and proposed development, together with all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/806
6 Nov 2017Incompleted application
(a) to partially demolish outbuilding and permission for change of use of remainder to 2 no. holiday units for short term let for same. (b) for change of use of out building to holiday unit for short term let and extension to same, together with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/698
13 Sept 2016Conditional
Retention Permission for the erection of a freestanding steel superstructure and permission for the completion of the attachment of steel cladding and access doors to the structure for use as materials storage unit and all allocated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/570
6 Jul 2016Refused
Permission to partially demolish outbuilding and for permission for change of use of remainder to domestic dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/425
27 Jun 2016Incompleted application
Permission to partially demolish outbuilding and for permission for change of use of remainder to domestic dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/402
7 Feb 2008Withdrawn
Dwelling and domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/234
11 May 2007Refused
Dwelling, domestic garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1249
7 Feb 2007Conditional
To construct a dewlling house and domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/323
19 Nov 2004Conditional
Construction of dwelling and installation of mini treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8570
7 Oct 2003Withdrawn
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4989
25 Jul 2003New application
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3719
27 Sept 2002Conditional
Dwellinghouse and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/4279
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 Kilnahera West.
Recorded monuments
- CO120-068 Hut site
Description
In pasture, on a N-facing slope. According to local information, the outline of a possible circular hut site (diam. c. 3.5m) is visible as a circular band of differential colour and growth pattern in dry weather. This possible hut site was not visible at ground level at the time of inspection. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
- CO120-069 Burnt mound
Description
In pasture, in a wet area covered by rushes at the foot of a gentle W-facing slope. A roughly circular mound (9m N-S; 8m E-W; H 0.5m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilnahera 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 5 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 Kilnahera 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 Kilnahera West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Kilnahera West · Coill na hUidhre Thiar
- Area
- 468,700 m² (46.87 ha, 115.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dromdaleague, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Garranes, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Garranes electoral division: 409 people in 141 households; 84% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clodagh, Derreenaspeeg, Derrynagree East, Kilnahera East, Lahanaght, Loughcrot
- Placenames
- Kilnahera 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.