Ring West
Ring West is a townland in the civil parish of Kinure, barony of Kinalea, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Rinn Thiar.
- Area
- 35.7 ha
- 88 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 3,396 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ring West, from 192 m² to 53,588 m² (5.36 ha, 13.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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 Ring 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
22 Apr 2025Conditional
Permission for a single storey extension to front of existing dwelling (change of plan to two storey extension granted permission under planning reg. No. 22/4833).
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4741
20 Apr 2022Conditional permission
Demolition of existing single storey external sheds, material alterations and refurbishment of the existing dwelling, construction of two storey extension, upgrading of the existing septic tank to a new bio filtration treatment unit and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4833
8 Aug 2016Conditional
Renovation and alteration of the existing two storey dwellinghouse including raising the existing roof level and a 104sq.m two storey extension to the north. Renovation and alteration and 23sq.m extension to existing single storey out-building for use as a separate detached granny flat, renovation and alteration of 3 no. detached single storey existing out-buildings for ancillary domestic use, installation of a waste water treatment unit and percolation area, and all ancillary above and below ground works including drainage and sewer connections and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5971
15 Jul 2016Incompleted application
Renovation and alteration of the existing two storey dwelling house including raising the existing roof level and a 104sq.m two storey extension to the north. Renovation and alteration and 23sq.m extension to existing single storey out-building for use as a separate detached granny flat, renovation and alteration of 3 no. detached single storey existing out-buildings for ancillary domestic use and all ancillary above and below ground works including drainage and sewer connections and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5761
18 Jul 2005Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse with garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5142
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 Ring West.
Recorded monuments
- CO112-049 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, W of well. According to local information burnt material removed some years ago; black spread visible in ploughed field. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ring 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 Ring West, about 1 in 10 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 high, 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 Ring 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 Ring West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ring West · An Rinn Thiar
- Area
- 357,410 m² (35.74 ha, 88.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kinure, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Electoral division
- Kinure, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 395 people lived in 134 households in the Kinure electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Ring 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.