Esk West

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Esk West, from 96 m² to 817,524 m² (81.75 ha, 202.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Esk 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.

• 31 Jul 2017Conditional

  CHANGE THE DESIGN OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DWELLING HOUSE UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION 17/109

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17748

• 14 Feb 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PACKAGED WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, INTERMITTENT FILTER, POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17109

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Caha Mountains 000093

Recorded monuments

• KE102-090 Field boundary
  Description

  In rough undulating pasture, in the valley of the Esk stream. Curvilinear stretches of collapsed stone walls (T 0.7m; H 0.4m) protrude intermittently above the surface of the bog and indicate a network of relict field walls extending over a roughly square area (c. 300m NNW-SSE; c. 300m WSW-ENE). Several gaps were noted where the walls extend into the bog. Loose stones from the walls are scattered downslope. 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

• KE110-005 Field boundary
  Description

  In rough hill pasture and cutaway bog, on a NW-facing slope overlooking the valley of the Esk River. A collapsed field wall (T c. 0.7m; H c. 0.4m) emerges from a turf bank at NW and extends in a SE direction for c. 150m, disappearing at intervals beneath uncut bog. A gap (Wth c. 50m) occurs after this initial stretch and, following this, another stretch of relict field wall of similar dimensions extends (L 45m) in a general S direction. 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

• KE110-007 Tunnel
  Description

  A rock-cut road tunnel (Wth 5.8m; H 3.7m; L c. 170m) on the GlengarriffKenmare road. This tunnel was constructed in the 1830s. Three shorter tunnels (KE110-008----, KE110-009----) are to the NW. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Esk 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

At the centre of the townland of Esk West, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Esk West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Esk West · An Eisc Thiar

Area

2,167,457 m² (216.75 ha, 535.59 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcaskan, and its townlands

Barony

Glanarought

Electoral division

Banawn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

267 people lived in 93 households in the Banawn electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Esk East, Garryletter, Lyre (Co. Cork), Releagh, Tooreen (Co. Cork)

Placenames

Esk 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.