Carrig West

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrig West, from 2,375 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres) to 1,516,048 m² (151.6 ha, 374.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Carrig 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Carrig West in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE083-017 Hut site
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on a W-facing slope to the S of Moll's Gap and within a network of relict field boundaries (KE083-017002-). The remains of a circular hut site (diam. 3.2m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.8m; H 0.3m) which protrudes above the surface of the bog. The level interior is obscured by rubble and rushes. Another hut site (KE083-017001-) is c. 3m to the NW. 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

• KE083-017001 Hut site
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on a W-facing slope to the S of Moll's Gap and within a network of relict field boundaries (KE083-017002-). The remains of a D-shaped hut site (3.1m E-W) defined by a drystone wall (T 0.7m; H 0.35m) with a straight W side (L 3.6m). The drystone wall protrudes above the surface of the bog and is best preserved along the linear W side. There is some rubble within the interior and along the perimeter. Another hut site (KE083-017----) is c. 3m to the SE. 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

• KE083-017002 Field boundary
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on a W-facing slope to the S of Moll's Gap. The remains of mainly curvilinear field walls (T 0.5m; H 0.4m) which protrude intermittently above the surface of the bog throughout a roughly rectangular area (c. 100m E-W; c. 70m N-S). Many of the stones are set at right angles to the line of the walls. There are two hut sites (KE083-017----, KE083-017001-) within this network of relict field walls. 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

• KE083-076 Hut site
  Description

  In rocky mountain terrain on the SE side of Moll's Gap, at the head of the Finnihy river valley. Sod-covered foundations of a subcircular hut with a 1m wide entrance at E. D: 2.9m x 2.3m. H: .3m. T: .5m. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1186. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrig 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).

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrig 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.

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

Name

Carrig West · An Charraig Thiar

Area

2,829,319 m² (282.93 ha, 699.14 acres)

Civil parish

Templenoe, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron South

Electoral division

Reen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Reen electoral division: 172 people in 69 households; 82% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 31% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrig East, Derrynafunsha, Eirk, Letter

Placenames

Carrig 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.