# Sheans West, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aglish, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry; in Irish Na Siáin Thiar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 470,943 m² (47.09 ha, 116.37 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,216 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aglish, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/aglish.md - Barony: Magunihy - Electoral division: Ballyhar, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23194 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 72511 - Centre: latitude 52.103694, longitude -9.562949 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheans West, from 16 m² to 274,469 m² (27.45 ha, 67.82 acres); 5 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1225647: 274,469 m² (27.45 ha, 67.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1225647.md - Parcel 1216379: 236,887 m² (23.69 ha, 58.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1216379.md - Parcel 1232765: 160,099 m² (16.01 ha, 39.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1232765.md - Parcel 1225664: 52,553 m² (5.26 ha, 12.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1225664.md - Parcel 1180325: 17,595 m² (1.76 ha, 4.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1180325.md - Parcel 5962066: 3,216 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5962066.md - Parcel 5962045: 491 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5962045.md - Parcel 5962091: 108 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5962091.md - Parcel 5962051: 86 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5962051.md - Parcel 5962096: 52 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5962096.md - Parcel 5962062: 16 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5962062.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 31 Mar 2026, Kerry County Council 2660280: Conditional. Retention. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660280/0 - 23 Aug 2024, Kerry County Council 24345: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. TO RETAIN AN AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE AS CONSTRUCTED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/24345/0 - 30 Mar 2022, Kerry County Council 22343: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/22343/0 - 12 Nov 2021, Kerry County Council 211285: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/211285/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Sheans West. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE058-328: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE058-328----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sheans West. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_170.zip (ZIP). - 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/sheans-west.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/sheans-west.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/sheans-west.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Barleymount East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/barleymount-east.md - Dromdoohig Beg: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromdoohig-beg.md - Racomane East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/racomane-east.md - Sheans East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/sheans-east.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/sheans-west - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/sheans-west