# Knockbrack West, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilflyn, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Cnoc Breac Thiar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 965,844 m² (96.58 ha, 238.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,859 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilflyn, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/kilflyn.md - Barony: Clanmaurice - Electoral division: Kilflyn, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 264 people lived in 103 households in the Kilflyn electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24247 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71942 - Centre: latitude 52.334151, longitude -9.628429 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrack West, from 118 m² to 258,464 m² (25.85 ha, 63.87 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1205186: 258,464 m² (25.85 ha, 63.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1205186.md - Parcel 4241128: 235,708 m² (23.57 ha, 58.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4241128.md - Parcel 1205187: 176,122 m² (17.61 ha, 43.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1205187.md - Parcel 1213117: 107,498 m² (10.75 ha, 26.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1213117.md - Parcel 1205185: 85,022 m² (8.5 ha, 21.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1205185.md - Parcel 6065293: 74,063 m² (7.41 ha, 18.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6065293.md - Parcel 3847269: 6,755 m² (0.68 ha, 1.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3847269.md - Parcel 1150083: 5,971 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1150083.md - Parcel 4103679: 4,399 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4103679.md - Parcel 1226049: 3,817 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1226049.md - Parcel 1208550: 3,016 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1208550.md - Parcel 1217795: 2,702 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1217795.md - Parcel 6065302: 2,626 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6065302.md - Parcel 1244830: 2,153 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1244830.md - Parcel 5929952: 2,045 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5929952.md - Parcel 1184356: 1,712 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1184356.md - Parcel 1210838: 1,586 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1210838.md - Parcel 3027322: 1,165 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3027322.md - Parcel 2685834: 1,057 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2685834.md - Parcel 4266233: 365 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4266233.md - Parcel 3847268: 128 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3847268.md - Parcel 4266238: 118 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4266238.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knockbrack 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. - 14 Oct 2025, Kerry County Council 25252: Conditional. Permission. ERECT AN AGRICULTURAL SHED FOR STORING FODDER AND MACHINERY ON HIS FARMYARD. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/25252/0 - 26 Sept 2025, Kerry County Council 2560875: N/a. Permission. REDIII: The development will consist of: a 10-year permission for the development of a solar farm on an overall site of c. 152.6 hectares consisting of the following: c. 449,366 sq m of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; 19 no. hardstanding locations for electrical skids; new internal access tracks with passing bays; underground power and communications cables and ducts, including along the L-6507, R557, and L-2034 public roads, 3no. Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) locations associated with the underground cable route; a total of 5 no. solar farm site entrances (1no. from the R557 public road, 3no. from the L-6507 public road and 1no. from the L-10562 public road); access gates; 5no. temporary site compounds of c. 4,050 sq m each to be used for storage during construction activity; 28no. Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Containers and 7no. associated MV Stations as well as associated CCTV, BESS compound fencing, gate, boundary fencing and all associated ancillary drainage development, site works and services. The solar farm will be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted to the planning authority with the application.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560875/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA, site code 004161, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004161 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockbrack West. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockbrack West. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Knockbrack West, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Knockbrack 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/knockbrack-west.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/knockbrack-west.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/knockbrack-west.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockbrack 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) - Fahavane: https://everytownland.com/kerry/fahavane.md - Knockbrack East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/knockbrack-east.md - Knocknacaska: https://everytownland.com/kerry/knocknacaska.md - Knocknahila: https://everytownland.com/kerry/knocknahila.md - Leath East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/leath-east.md - Rea: https://everytownland.com/kerry/rea-72401.md - Tooreen: https://everytownland.com/kerry/tooreen-72611.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/knockbrack-west - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/knockbrack-west