Kilcoolaght West

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcoolaght West, from 105 m² to 288,313 m² (28.83 ha, 71.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Kilcoolaght 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.

• 11 Mar 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE, HARDCORE ACCESS ROADWAY AND SLATTED LIVESTOCK HOUSE. PROPOSED SLATTED HOUSE TO INCORPORATE ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK WITH 2 EXTERNAL AGITATION POINTS AND EXTERNAL ANCILLARY CONTRETE AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 19228

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343

Recorded monuments

• KE064-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Lismore/Lios Mór: This earthen enclosure was levelled around 1970. It was then densely overgrown and survived in a poor state of preservation (local information). Marked on both editions of the OS maps, it was situated N of Macgillycuddy's Reeks and E of the Cottoners river. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 678. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE065-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Lisbeg/Lios Beag: On the first edition of the OS map this site is shown as a circular enclosure. On the second edition it is marked ‘site of’’. There is now no visible trace of the enclosure. It was located on a gentle, facing slope overlooking the plain of the River Laune to E. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 821. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE065-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  There are no visible remains of the circular enclosure marked at this location on the first edition of the OS map. It was sited on a gentle NW facing slope a short distance W of Glasheenasheefree stream, a tributary of the Laune. The land in the immediate vicinity is now devoted to pasture. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 822. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilcoolaght 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_81 (ZIP).

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 Kilcoolaght West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Kilcoolaght West · Cill Chuallachta Thiar

Area

1,675,068 m² (167.51 ha, 413.92 acres)

Civil parish

Killorglin, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron North

Electoral division

Kilgobnet, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilgobnet electoral division: 984 people in 325 households; 88% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardacluckeen, Glancuttaun Lower, Kilcoolaght East, Meanus, Ownagarry, Shannera Lower

Placenames

Kilcoolaght 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.