Killurly West

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killurly West, from 6 m² to 300,789 m² (30.08 ha, 74.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Killurly 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.

• 23 Jun 2026N/a

  Permission for the Following 1) To Demolish Old House and Garage 2) To Construct a Dwellinghouse and Domestic Garage 3) To Install a Septic Tank and Polishing Filter

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660573

• 24 Aug 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AT THEIR SITE LOCATED

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21976

• 21 May 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19525

• 12 Sept 2018Refused

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18887

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE069-012 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Holy Well of Ahachoura/Tobar na hAbha Cumhra: This well is located at the foot of Knocknadobar mountain, to which it gives its name, in the narrow valley that extends S from Coonanna Harbour towards the Ferta river. It comprises a pool, 1.6m in diameter, which is lined by a low wall of coursed stone. The pool is fed by a natural spring, and a lintelled outlet occurs at W. The gravelled bottom of the pool is strewn with modern coins amid which is a slate slab, .28m x .16m, with an incised cross on one face. Standing above the site at E is a cement cross inscribed with 'IHS' and 'St Fursey'. This well is dedicated to St Fursey who, it is locally reputed, was cured of blindness by bathing his eyes in its water (IFC Schools' Collection). It is alternatively called Glaise Chumhra (the fragrant stream), and its water is still reputed to cure eye complaints. It was traditionally visited on the last Sunday of July when a Lughnasa assembly took place on top of Knocknadobar. This was a major religious and festive gathering with singing, dancing and games (MacNeill 1962, 138). In 1885 Stations of the Cross were erected along the route to the mountain top from the holy well. Folklore collected from An Clochar School, Cahersiveen recorded the following tradition; 'There is a blessed well in Clash a Chúmhra on the parish boundary of 'Faille Mhoíre' called the Well of "St. Fursey", a person who is the same for the sun or light of the sun founded this well. It was as if he was riding on the belly of the mountain with a dog as his guide when he felt the water under his feet. The wound of God was that he bowed down and washed his face with water. No sooner had his face washed than he saw the bright light of day for the first time. Then he made a fountain to his delight. Since he was born blind, it is not a matter of the affairs of the well that anyone but a blind person does' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0476, Page 292; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4742132/4738877). See attached colour photographs courtesy of Amanda Clarke. 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. 1077. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 3 May 2022

• KE069-013 Hut site
  Description

  In a rocky field on lower SW slopes of Knocknadobar mountain. Roughly circular structure composed of a cairn of collapsed stones. Coursing, perhaps corbelled, visible at SE and N. D: 4.4m. H: 1.2m. 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. 1336. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killurly 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 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 Killurly West.

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

Name

Killurly West

Area

1,547,620 m² (154.76 ha, 382.43 acres)

Civil parish

Killinane, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Castlequin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlequin electoral division: 583 people in 225 households; 92% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydarrig, Cloghane, Cloghanelinaghan, Coomnahincha, Killurly Commons

Placenames

Killurly 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.