# Faha West, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilbonane, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 600,165 m² (60.02 ha, 148.3 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,362 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilbonane, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/kilbonane.md - Barony: Magunihy - Electoral division: Lahard, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Lahard electoral division: 741 people in 263 households; 87% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23634 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71254 - Centre: latitude 52.108747, longitude -9.640065 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Faha West, from 129 m² to 293,395 m² (29.34 ha, 72.5 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5180279: 293,395 m² (29.34 ha, 72.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5180279.md - Parcel 6061045: 288,000 m² (28.8 ha, 71.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6061045.md - Parcel 1231488: 2,547 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1231488.md - Parcel 1189687: 2,508 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1189687.md - Parcel 1240769: 2,314 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1240769.md - Parcel 1225562: 2,284 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1225562.md - Parcel 5565664: 1,603 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5565664.md - Parcel 1229758: 1,459 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1229758.md - Parcel 1237356: 1,413 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1237356.md - Parcel 1177716: 1,311 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1177716.md - Parcel 1234975: 1,279 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1234975.md - Parcel 1226402: 859 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1226402.md - Parcel 1184144: 745 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1184144.md - Parcel 5030459: 489 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5030459.md - Parcel 1209518: 486 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1209518.md - Parcel 5366234: 244 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5366234.md - Parcel 1145709: 202 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1145709.md - Parcel 1195399: 129 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1195399.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Faha 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. - 4 Jul 2025, Kerry County Council 2560565: Conditional. Retention. Retain extensions to the dwelling house as constructed and Full planning permission to A), demolish existing attached garage and side extensions, B) construct new side extensions onto the existing dwelling house, C) construct a new first floor dormer extension onto existing dwelling house, D) elevation changes & internal alterations to existing dwelling house E), decommission existing septic tank and to install a new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560565/0 - 18 Sept 2019, Kerry County Council 19975: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCT A CATTLE UNDERPASS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/19975/0 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 Faha West. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Faha West. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Faha 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 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 Faha 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/faha-west.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/faha-west.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/faha-west.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Faha 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) - Faha East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/faha-east.md - Kilnarovanagh: https://everytownland.com/kerry/kilnarovanagh.md - Knockagowna: https://everytownland.com/kerry/knockagowna.md - Listry: https://everytownland.com/kerry/listry.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/faha-west - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/faha-west