# Dromcahan West, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kenmare, barony of Glanarought, Co. Kerry; in Irish Drom Ceachan Thiar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,216,793 m² (121.68 ha, 300.68 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,024 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kenmare, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/kenmare.md - Barony: Glanarought - Electoral division: Kenmare, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Kenmare electoral division: 3,520 people in 1,321 households; 57% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23042 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71153 - Centre: latitude 51.898798, longitude -9.564291 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromcahan West, from 99 m² to 261,935 m² (26.19 ha, 64.73 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1222699: 261,935 m² (26.19 ha, 64.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1222699.md - Parcel 1223602: 244,199 m² (24.42 ha, 60.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1223602.md - Parcel 1230774: 180,956 m² (18.1 ha, 44.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1230774.md - Parcel 1179899: 142,050 m² (14.21 ha, 35.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1179899.md - Parcel 1230775: 111,314 m² (11.13 ha, 27.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1230775.md - Parcel 3846698: 105,577 m² (10.56 ha, 26.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3846698.md - Parcel 1230815: 66,559 m² (6.66 ha, 16.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1230815.md - Parcel 1162639: 37,912 m² (3.79 ha, 9.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1162639.md - Parcel 1162640: 13,069 m² (1.31 ha, 3.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1162640.md - Parcel 1143747: 9,569 m² (0.96 ha, 2.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1143747.md - Parcel 5791787: 4,826 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5791787.md - Parcel 4719147: 4,024 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4719147.md - Parcel 1238298: 3,897 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1238298.md - Parcel 1228516: 3,158 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1228516.md - Parcel 1214117: 3,095 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1214117.md - Parcel 1236618: 2,506 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1236618.md - Parcel 1183981: 2,192 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1183981.md - Parcel 1162642: 2,171 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1162642.md - Parcel 1229976: 1,412 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1229976.md - Parcel 1211980: 1,266 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1211980.md - Parcel 1208217: 1,089 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1208217.md - Parcel 5791791: 676 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5791791.md - Parcel 5791807: 99 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5791807.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Dromcahan 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 1 Dec 2021, Kerry County Council 211373: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. (A) RETAIN ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO THE HOUSE, (B) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN THE DOMESTIC SHED (C) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN THE EXISTING ENTRANCE GATES AND FENCING AND (D) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN THE HOUSE, SHED, SITE ENTRANCE, DRIVEWAY AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES, (E) PERMISSION TO DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND CONSTRUCT A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER TO SERVE THE DEVELOPMENT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/211373/0 - 25 Mar 2020, Kerry County Council 20292: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/20292/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Dromcahan West. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dromcahan West. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dromcahan West. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dromcahan 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/dromcahan-west.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromcahan-west.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromcahan-west.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Dromcahan 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) - Dromcahan East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromcahan-east.md - Gortagass: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortagass.md - Inchimore: https://everytownland.com/kerry/inchimore-71652.md - Kilcurrane East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/kilcurrane-east.md - Killowen: https://everytownland.com/kerry/killowen.md - Kilmurry: https://everytownland.com/kerry/kilmurry-71843.md - Lissaniska: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lissaniska-72132.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/dromcahan-west - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/dromcahan-west