Carhoo West

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carhoo West, from 190 m² to 382,174 m² (38.22 ha, 94.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 3 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Carhoo 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.

• 10 Dec 2019Conditional

  RETAIN AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191248

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  RETAIN AN EXISTING STEEL-TECH SHED AND (B) PERMISSION TO DISMANTLE THE AFOREMENTIONED EXISTING STEEL-TECH SHED AND, IN ITS PLACE, CONSTRUCT A STORAGE SHED SERVING AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191252

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Dingle Peninsula SPA 004153

Recorded monuments

• KE053-063 Mound
  Description

  An overgrown earthen mound situated in marshy pasture on a N facing slope. It measures 8m N-S, 4m E-W and slopes up from ground level at S to a maximum height of 1.5m at N. It is shown on the 2nd edition of the OS map as a small, roughly circular mound. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 218. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 4 August 2013

• KE053-068 Hut site
  Description

  In open mountain pasture, on S slopes of Eask Hill. Foundations of 2 conjoined circular structures of drystone construction. D: 4m and 2m. H: .5m. T: 1.25m. A 3rd possible structure abuts N side of W structure. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1168. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

• KE053-068001 Hut site
  Description

  In open mountain pasture, on S slopes of Eask Hill. Foundations of 2 conjoined circular structures of drystone construction. D: 4m and 2m. H: .5m. T: 1.25m. A 3rd possible structure KE053-068002- abuts N side of W structure. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1168. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

• KE053-068002 Hut site
  Description

  In open mountain pasture, on S slopes of Eask Hill. Foundations of 2 conjoined circular structures of drystone construction. D: 4m and 2m. H: .5m. T: 1.25m. A 3rd possible structure KE053-068002- abuts N side of W structure. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1168. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

Architectural heritage

• Eask Tower, beacon, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding beacon tower, built 1847, on a circular plan. Benchmark-inscribed dry stone battered walls with timber finger point. Freestanding single-bay single-storey flat-roofed lookout post ["LOP36"], between 1939-42, on an elongated half-octagonal plan. Now disused. Set on elevated site overlooking Cuan an Daingin [Dingle Harbour].

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_13 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Carhoo West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Carhoo West · An Cheathrú Thiar

Area

740,105 m² (74.01 ha, 182.88 acres)

Civil parish

Dingle, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaguiny

Electoral division

Glinn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glinn electoral division: 1,806 people in 654 households; 77% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacadoyle, Carhoo East

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Carhoo 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.