Feorus West
Feorus West is a townland in the civil parish of Tuosist, barony of Glanarought, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Feoras Thiar.
- Area
- 119.7 ha
- 296 acres
- Land parcels
- 83
- registered freehold, median 3,438 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Feorus West, from 54 m² to 449,883 m² (44.99 ha, 111.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Feorus 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Jan 2022Conditional
RETAIN (A)DOMESTIC GARAGE (B) DOMESTIC SHED (C) ENTRANCE GATES AND FENCING AT THE SITE ENTRANCE (D) HOUSE, GARAGE, SHED, SITE ENTRANCE, DRIVEWAY AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES (E) PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF HOUSE
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2224
16 Dec 2020Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION OF THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE DWELLING HOUSE (B) PERMISSION TO MAKE VARIOUS ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO THE HOUSE INCLUDING THE INSTILLATION OF PATIO DOORS AND ALTERATION TO SOME WINDOW OPENINGS, (C) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SHED AND (D) PERMISSION TO CONSTURCT A POLYTUNNEL
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 201217
21 Feb 2018Conditional
(A) RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING, ANCILLARY GARAGE AND TWO AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS AND SITE LAYOUT AS CONSTRUCTED, ALL WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES AND (B) PERMISSION FOR RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DWELLING WITH NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS TO FACILITATE THIS DEVELOPMENT
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18153
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Kenmare River SAC 002158
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Feorus West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Feorus 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Feorus 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 Feorus 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Feorus West, Kenmare6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Feorus West · Feoras Thiar
- Area
- 1,196,983 m² (119.7 ha, 295.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tuosist, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glanarought
- Electoral division
- Dawros, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 611 people lived in 226 households in the Dawros electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Derrynamucklagh, Feoramore, Feorus East, Muckera
- Placenames
- Feorus 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.