# Carrig West, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Templenoe, barony of Dunkerron South, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Charraig Thiar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,829,319 m² (282.93 ha, 699.14 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 83,543 m² (8.35 ha, 20.64 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Templenoe, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/templenoe.md - Barony: Dunkerron South - Electoral division: Reen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23116 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 70606 - Centre: latitude 51.927046, longitude -9.65185 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1180529: 1,516,048 m² (151.6 ha, 374.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1180529.md - Parcel 1218476: 1,143,104 m² (114.31 ha, 282.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1218476.md - Parcel 1138369: 162,057 m² (16.21 ha, 40.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1138369.md - Parcel 4363952: 5,029 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4363952.md - Parcel 4363973: 2,572 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4363973.md - Parcel 4363972: 2,375 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4363972.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Carrig West in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC, site code 000365, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000365 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment, site code 000365 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE083-017: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE083-017----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE083-017001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE083-017002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE083-076----. 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 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 Carrig 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 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, 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/carrig-west.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/carrig-west.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/carrig-west.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carrig East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/carrig-east.md - Derrynafunsha: https://everytownland.com/kerry/derrynafunsha.md - Eirk: https://everytownland.com/kerry/eirk.md - Letter: https://everytownland.com/kerry/letter-72091.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/carrig-west - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/carrig-west