# Caher West, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kenmare, barony of Glanarought, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Chathair Thiar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 948,389 m² (94.84 ha, 234.35 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,971 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kenmare, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/kenmare.md - Barony: Glanarought - Electoral division: Cappagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Cappagh electoral division: 404 people in 149 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/22855 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 70496 - Centre: latitude 51.895379, longitude -9.527931 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caher West, from 80 m² to 154,835 m² (15.48 ha, 38.26 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1183772: 154,835 m² (15.48 ha, 38.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1183772.md - Parcel 3845612: 153,243 m² (15.32 ha, 37.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3845612.md - Parcel 5613026: 148,672 m² (14.87 ha, 36.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5613026.md - Parcel 1156929: 145,812 m² (14.58 ha, 36.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1156929.md - Parcel 1156930: 91,887 m² (9.19 ha, 22.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1156930.md - Parcel 1156928: 78,333 m² (7.83 ha, 19.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1156928.md - Parcel 1183766: 51,825 m² (5.18 ha, 12.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1183766.md - Parcel 1185193: 36,791 m² (3.68 ha, 9.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1185193.md - Parcel 1206401: 32,165 m² (3.22 ha, 7.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1206401.md - Parcel 1232737: 20,775 m² (2.08 ha, 5.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1232737.md - Parcel 1218925: 19,713 m² (1.97 ha, 4.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1218925.md - Parcel 1224733: 18,100 m² (1.81 ha, 4.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1224733.md - Parcel 1183765: 14,967 m² (1.5 ha, 3.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1183765.md - Parcel 5683743: 13,475 m² (1.35 ha, 3.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5683743.md - Parcel 1185195: 12,565 m² (1.26 ha, 3.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1185195.md - Parcel 4919894: 8,459 m² (0.85 ha, 2.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4919894.md - Parcel 1205326: 7,186 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1205326.md - Parcel 1235178: 4,515 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1235178.md - Parcel 5613006: 4,080 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5613006.md - Parcel 1217453: 3,862 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1217453.md - Parcel 4064834: 2,699 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4064834.md - Parcel 1222033: 2,632 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1222033.md - Parcel 3845611: 2,469 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3845611.md - Parcel 1149266: 2,397 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1149266.md - Parcel 4064826: 2,362 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4064826.md - Parcel 1206932: 2,279 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1206932.md - Parcel 4774389: 2,264 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4774389.md - Parcel 1185194: 2,245 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1185194.md - Parcel 1205869: 2,237 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1205869.md - Parcel 1204850: 2,211 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1204850.md - Parcel 1201604: 2,181 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1201604.md - Parcel 1207596: 2,179 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1207596.md - Parcel 1215681: 1,116 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1215681.md - Parcel 4065627: 1,079 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4065627.md - Parcel 4097683: 867 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4097683.md - Parcel 1238300: 665 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1238300.md - Parcel 1208214: 591 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1208214.md - Parcel 5613021: 80 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5613021.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Caher West in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 25 Mar 2026, Kerry County Council 2660258: N/a. Retention. The proposed development will consist of: • Lateral extension of the existing permitted extraction area (QY082) over c. 1 ha to a final quarry floor level of c. -20 mOD (to match the existing excavated floor level within the permitted extraction area); • Progressive restoration and final restoration of the application area to natural habitat / biodiversity-led after-use following completion of extraction; • All related ancillary development and associated site works including the processing (crushing and screening) and stockpiling of materials; the provision of landscaped screening berms / overburden storage area; and all other associated quarry activities and works; • Retention of an extension to an existing workshop (183 m²); • The proposed development comprises a lateral extension only and will not increase output or hours of operation over and above those authorised under the existing planning permission(s). • The proposed development is within an overall application area of c. 1.6 hectares and is for a total period 15 of years.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660258/0 - 23 Dec 2021, Kerry County Council 211514: Conditional. Retention. (I) RETAIN AN EXTRACTION AREA OF 0.23 HECTARES CONTIGUOUS TO THE EXISTING QUARRY DEVELOPMENT (II) RETAIN TEMPORARY SOIL MANAGEMENT AND STORAGE AREAS, AND (III) RETAIN ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/211514/0 - 6 Dec 2019, Kerry County Council 191241: Conditional. Permission. (A) CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING LIVESTOCK SLATTED HOUSE TO A LIVESTOCK CUBICLE HOUSE, (B) CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING TO INCLUDE A MILKING PARLOUR, DAIRY AND ANCLLARY ROOMS, UNDERGROUND SLATTED SOILED WATER TANK, LIVESTOCK HANDILING FACILITIES, LIVESTOCK CUBICLES AND STRAW BEDDED CALF REARING FACILITES AND (C) ERECTION OF A MEAL BIN AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/191241/0 - 22 May 2017, Kerry County Council 17463: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES AS CONSTRUCTED WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES ALL. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/17463/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Roughty River Estuary, site code 002092 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE093-006: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE093-006----. In pasture, on the N side of the valley of the Roughty River. The castle has been removed by quarrying. It was named 'site of Shanagarry Castle' on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. In the 1840s it was recorded as the 'ruin of an old castle almost erased' (OSNB, Kenmare no. 4, 2). 'Shangarry' was described in 1841 as having its foundations only barely traceable and only one wall remaining with evidence of grouting (OSL, 183). Lewis (1837, vol. 2, 38) noted that 'the foundation is only now visible'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011 - KE093-023001: Mass-rock, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE093-023001-. In level pasture, close to the E bank of the Cleady River. An irregularly shaped glacial erratic (3m N-S; 2m E-W; H 1.6m) is said locally to have been a mass-rock used during Penal times. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011 - KE093-023002: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE093-023002-. In level pasture, close to the E bank of the Cleady River. Indicated as an L-shaped structure (long axis NW-SE) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. It is not visible at ground level. This 'R.C. Chapel' is likely to date to the post-1700 AD period. There is a possible mass-rock (KE093-023001-) on the site. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011 - KE093-111: Mine - lead, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE093-111----. In pasture, c. 600m N of the Roughty River. Not visible at ground level. The last of the shafts was infilled in living memory. Named 'Lead Mine' on 1846 OS 6-inch map with a rectangular structure (L c. 20m) and nearby shafts indicated. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Caher West. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Caher West. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/caher-west.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/caher-west.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/caher-west.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Caher West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Caher East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/caher-east.md - Dromatouk: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromatouk.md - Gortagass: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortagass.md - Gortalassa: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortalassa-71488.md - Kilpatrick: https://everytownland.com/kerry/kilpatrick.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/caher-west - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/caher-west