Leitrim West
Townland in the civil parish of Murher, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry; in Irish Liatroim Thiar
- Area
- 216.9 ha
- 536 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 3,760 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leitrim West, from 607 m² to 288,883 m² (28.89 ha, 71.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Leitrim 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
2 Oct 2024Conditional
Permission to a) Decommission the existing septic tank and percolation area b) Install a mechanical treatment plant and raised polishing filter. c) construct all associated site works Retention Permission to retain d) the dwelling with associated services as constructed e) the domestic sheds, all of which are ancillary to the private dwelling. f) the applicants private home office/ place of work. at Ahalana, Moyvane, Listowel, Co. Kerry V31X927
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2460753
2 Sept 2020Conditional
BUILD A PRIVATE GARAGE ON SITE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20787
15 Nov 2018Refused
STRIP TOPSOIL, FILL LANDS WITH CLEAN EXCAVATED SOIL MATERIAL AND BUILDING RUBBLE AND TO REPLACE THE STRIPPED TOPSOIL TO LEVELS, TO UPGRAGE LANDS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 181122
23 Jul 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC DWELLING HOUSE, EXTERNAL STORE, INSTALL A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER, SITE ACCESS ROAD AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ALL
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18732
10 Apr 2018N/a
(A) RETAIN THE DEMOLITION OF ORIGINAL DWELLING HOUSE (B) RETAIN AND COMPLETE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS AND ALL SITE WORKS AS CONSTRUCTED (C) PERMISSION FOR PROPRIETARY TREATMENT UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO FACILITATE THIS DEVELOPMENT
Retention · Kerry County Council, 18323
10 Apr 2018Refused
CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT, ACCESS ROAD AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18324
21 Dec 2017N/a
STRIP TOPSOIL, FILL LANDS WITH CLEANN BUILDING RUBBLE AND CLEAN EXCAVATED SOIL MATERIAL AND TO REPLACE THE TOPSOIL, TO LEVELS, TO UPGRADE MY LANDS, ALL ON MY LANDS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 171294
24 May 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALL A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER , SITE ACCESS ROAD AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17478
7 Apr 2017N/a
CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALL A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER, SITE ACCESS ROAD AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ALL
Permission · Kerry County Council, 17308
14 Mar 2017N/a
CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALL A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER, SITE ACCESS ROAD AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ALL
Permission · Kerry County Council, 17213
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Bunnaruddee Bog NHA 001352
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Leitrim West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Leitrim 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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Leitrim 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Leitrim West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Leitrim West · Liatroim Thiar
- Area
- 2,169,421 m² (216.94 ha, 536.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Murher, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Electoral division
- Leitrim, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Leitrim electoral division: 560 people in 193 households; 92% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ahalahana, Bunnaruddee, Gurteennacloona, Leanamore, Leitrim Middle, Moher, Tullamore
- Placenames
- Leitrim 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.