Sheans West

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheans West, from 16 m² to 274,469 m² (27.45 ha, 67.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 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 Sheans 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.

• 31 Mar 2026Conditional

  (a) Permission to construct extension to existing dwelling house (b) Retention Permission to retain and complete change of use of existing agricultural entrance to a domestic entrance to serve the existing dwelling house

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660280

• 23 Aug 2024Conditional

  TO RETAIN AN AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE AS CONSTRUCTED

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24345

• 30 Mar 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22343

• 12 Nov 2021Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THEIR EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (B) INSTALL A TRICEL NOVO WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT FOLLOWED BY 2 NO. PURAFLO PEAT FILTERS TO SERVE THE DWELLING HOUSE (C) MAKE ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211285

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Sheans West.

Recorded monuments

• KE058-328 Enclosure
  Description

  In improved pasture, on a N-facing slope. Reported to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as a possible enclosure. Oval area (dims. 24m E-W; 16m N-S) defined by scarp ESE->S->WNW which is best defined SW->W (Wth 10m; H 1.6m). Scarp truncated by gently curving, deep land drain and densely overgrown field boundary WNW->N->ESE. Scarp levelled, yet traceable ENE->ESE. Interior is level and covered in mature hay. Noted as area of differential growth upon modern aerial photography (OSi 2010; Bing 2015). Poorly drained depression with yellow flags, in adjacent field to N. No potential feature evident upon historic mapping. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 9 October 2015

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sheans 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 10 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_170 (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 Sheans West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Sheans West · Na Siáin Thiar

Area

470,943 m² (47.09 ha, 116.37 acres)

Civil parish

Aglish, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Ballyhar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyhar electoral division: 200 people in 74 households; 86% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barleymount East, Dromdoohig Beg, Racomane East, Sheans East

Placenames

Sheans 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.