Oolagh West

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oolagh West, from 51 m² to 316,224 m² (31.62 ha, 78.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Oolagh 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.

• 19 Nov 2025Conditional

  to replace existing concrete tile roof finishes with a slate grey insulated uPVC roofing system with decorative standing seams , new metal rainwater goods , uPVC coated fascia linings ,associated repairs and external masonry decoration to detached workshop building and detached accommodation building with minor elevational changes to the accommodation building

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561066

• 6 Jun 2024Conditional

  The construction of a new single storey boat storage shed and all ancillary siteworks, adjacent to the existing parking area on the campus, at Kerry College Killorglin Campus, Oolagh West, Caragh Lake, Killorglin, Co Kerry, V93 EY00. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460357

• 6 May 2020Conditional

  REMOVAL OF EXISTING PREFABRICATED BOAT STORE BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A TIMBER-CLAD BOAT STORE BUILDING (ON WATERS EDGE) VARYING BETWEEN SINGLE STOREY AND STOREY AND A HALF IN HEIGHT, AND CONTAINING BOAT STORAGE, DEMONSTRATION ROOM, WC's, OPEN AND ROOFED TERRACED AREAS AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL, CANTILEVERED BOAT LAUNCHING PLATFORM WITH RAINWATER HARVESTING SYSTEM, ALL WASTE WATER BEING LINKED BACK IN TO THE CENTRES EXISTING WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, ALL INCLUDING ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY WORKS AND UTILISING EXISTING ACCESS. AN NIS HAS BEEN SUBMITTED WITH THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 20410

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

• KE064-019 Hut site
  Description

  On a level terrace midway between loughs Caragh and Cappanalea, which it overlooks. The foundations of a subcircular and a rectangular hut, both of which may be relatively recent in date. Incorporated in the structures are some very large facing stones. The subcircular hut KE064-019---- measures 3m internally and the second hut KE064-019001-measures 3.7m x 2.4m. Remnants of what may be an enclosing wall can be identified NW of the huts. This may be the site referred to as 'Liosachán' by Ó Cíobháin (1978, 33). 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. 1358. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE064-019001 Hut site
  Description

  On a level terrace midway between loughs Caragh and Cappanalea, which it overlooks. The foundations of a subcircular (KE064-019----) and a rectangular (KE064-019001-) hut, both of which may be relatively recent in date. Incorporated in the structures are some very large facing stones. Hut KE064-019001-measures 3.7m x 2.4m. Remnants of what may be an enclosing wall can be identified NW of the huts. This may be the site referred to as 'Liosachán' by Ó Cíobháin (1978, 33). 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. 1358. 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 Oolagh 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 20 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Oolagh 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 Oolagh West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Oolagh West · Abhlach Thiar

Area

2,858,413 m² (285.84 ha, 706.33 acres)

Civil parish

Knockane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron North

Electoral division

Maum, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Maum electoral division: 265 people in 106 households; 90% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahane, Curraflugh, Gortnagan Beg, Gortnagan More, Oolagh East

Placenames

Oolagh 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.