Doonties West

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonties West, from 6,515 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres) to 703,763 m² (70.38 ha, 173.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Doonties 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 Doonties 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 Protection Area: Dingle Peninsula SPA 004153

Recorded monuments

• KE053-084 Hut site
  Description

  In rough mountain terrain on the E slopes of Beenmore. A circular drystone foundation. D: 4.1m. H: .65m. T: 1.6m. A 2nd circular hut foundation (KE053-092----) lies about 40m to W in Kinard East townland. D: 4.5m. H: .6m. T: 1m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage (compiler) 'Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey.' Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne (1986), no. 1243. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 May 2013

• KE054-070 Hut site
  Description

  On the S slopes of Sea Hill overlooking Dingle Bay. A pair of conjoined hut foundations. S hut KE054-070---- is rectangular in plan with a small wall-cupboard in the interior, and a recess at ground level in the NE corner measuring .8m wide x .25m high x .64m deep. In front of the latter, a roughly D-shaped portion of the hut interior, 1.6 x 2.6m, has been enclosed by a setting of stones; the function of this is not known. D: 4.3 x 3.6m. H: .6m. N hut is circular and of corbelled drystone construction. D: 3.8m. H: 1.1m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1244. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

• KE054-070001 Hut site
  Description

  On the S slopes of Sea Hill overlooking Dingle Bay. A pair of conjoined hut foundations. N hut KE054-070001- is circular and of corbelled drystone construction. D: 3.8m. H: 1.1m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1244. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

• KE054-071 Hut site
  Description

  In rough mountain terrain, on SE side of Sea Hill. A large mound of stone collapse, 7.5 x 7.6m x 1m in height, may represent the ruins of a hut site. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1246. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

• KE054-072 Hut site
  Description

  Cloghaunatober/Clochán an Tobair: In rough mountain terrain on the SE slopes of Sea Hill. Foundations of a circular corbelled drystone hut with 2 small wall niches in the interior. D: 3.5m. H: 1.7m. Abutting its SE side are the ruins of a rectangular structure of uncertain function. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1245. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

• KE054-073 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Cashel described by Cuppage (1986, 201, no. 562) as follows; 'Cahernacullia/Cathair na Coille: This roughly circular cashel lies on the SE slopes of Sea Hill overlooking Dingle Bay. A N-S field wall divides the site into 2 unequal portions, and the enclosing wall to E of this is now reduced to a low grass-grown bank. The remainder of the cashel wall is represented only by its outer face, of large boulders set upright or laid horizontally, and in places by a band of stone collapse. The foundations of a possible pair of circular conjoined huts abut the W side of the field wall, their E limit now obscured by the latter. The ruined walls stand to a height of c. 0.5m and the structures measure 2.7m and 6.52m x 8.9m internally'.

• KE054-073001 Hut site
  Description

  Cahernacullia/Cathair na Coille: Roughly circular cashel KE054-073---- lies on the SE slopes of Sea Hill overlooking Dingle Bay. The foundations of a possible pair of circular conjoined huts abut the W side of the field wall, their E limit now obscured by the latter. The ruined walls stand to a height of c. 0.5m and the structures measure 2.7m and 6.52m x 8.9m internally. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 562. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE054-073002 Hut site
  Description

  Cahernacullia/Cathair na Coille: Roughly circular cashel KE054-073---- lies on the SE slopes of Sea Hill overlooking Dingle Bay. The foundations of a possible pair of circular conjoined huts abut the W side of the field wall, their E limit now obscured by the latter. The ruined walls stand to a height of c. 0.5m and the structures measure 2.7m and 6.52m x 8.9m internally. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 562. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doonties 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 Doonties West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Doonties West · Na Dúnta Thiar

Area

1,661,278 m² (166.13 ha, 410.51 acres)

Civil parish

Minard, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaguiny

Electoral division

Minard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Minard electoral division: 444 people in 160 households; 75% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coumlanders, Doonmanagh, Doonties Commons, Foheraghmore, Kinard East

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Doonties 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.