Tarmon West

83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tarmon West, from 57 m² to 155,117 m² (15.51 ha, 38.33 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Tarmon 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.

• 14 Aug 2026N/a

  RED III Moyvane Solar Farm Limited intend to apply for permission for a 10-year planning permission for development at this site at Tarmon East, Leitrim East, Leitrim Middle, Aughrim, Glannalappa West, Glannalappa Middle, Ahalahana and Moyvane North, Co. Kerry. This development will consist of the construction of a solar photovoltaic (‘PV’) farm and associated ancillary development on ca. 272-hectare (‘ha’) site consisting of: I. Solar PV panels laid out in arrays on ground-mounted frames, covering an area of ca. 823,310m2; II. Solar PV panels laid out in arrays supported by ballast footing covering an area of ca. 8,948m2; III. String inverters attached to selected solar panel arrays; IV. 27No. transformer units (ca. 6.1m x 2.4m); V. 33kV underground collector circuit and communications cabling within private lands and within the L1012, L1015, L1014, L6023 and L1021 public roads; VI. Pole-mounted security cameras; VII. Perimeter security fencing (2m high) and security gates; VIII. Upgrade of 8No. existing permanent Site entrances on the L1015, L1012, L1014 and L6023 public roads; IX. Development of 4No. new permanent Site entrances on the L1015, L1021 and L6023 public roads; X. 3No. temporary main construction compounds and 1No. temporary staging area; XI. The installation of 20No. new box culverts across drainage ditches, 10No. new box culverts across watercourses and the upgrade of 2No. existing box culverts across watercourses; XII. 2No. Horizontal Directional Drilling (‘HDD’) crossings (i) under the L1021 local road and (ii) under Ahalahana River to facilitate 33kV underground collector circuit cabling to the future 110kV looped-in substation; XIII. 4No. storage containers (ca. 2.6m high x 3m wide x 12.2m long); XIV. Ca. 11ha of Habitat Management Lands; and, XV. Drainage infrastructure, internal access tracks, landscaping, reinstatement works and all associated ancillary development. A 40-year operational life from the date of full commissioning of the entire solar farm is being sought for all works (other than temporary works specified above), and the subsequent decommissioning. A Natura Impact Statement will accompany the planning application.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660763

• 21 Dec 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT (A) A NEW DWELLING SERVICED BY A MECHANICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER (B) A VEHICULAR SITE ENTRANCE AND (C) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211472

• 16 Dec 2020Conditional

  RETENTION PERMISSION (A) TO RETAIN THE DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED ON SITE & PLANNING PERMISSION FOR (B) DEMOLITION OF SINGLE STOREY SUN ROOM AND BAY WINDOW TO REAR (C) CONSTRUCTION OF STOREY AND A HALF DORMER STYLE EXTENSION TO REAR AND SEPERATE SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR (D) NEW FIRE ESCAPE COMPLIANT ROOF LIGHTS TO FRONT (EAST) ELEVATION AND TO SIDE ROOF PLANES (NORTH AND SOUTH) OF FRONT GABLE SECTION (E) CHANGES TO ROOF LIGHTS TO REAR (WEST) ROOF PLANE (F) ALTERATIONS TO OPES TO REAR (WEST) ELEVATION AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND (G) ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 201220

• 31 Jan 2019Conditional

  ERECT A STOREY AND HALF DWELLING HOUSE WITH A WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER, ALSO FOR PERMISSION TO ERECT A DOMESTIC GARAGE / UTILITY STORE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ON HIS SITE

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 1979

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 Tarmon West.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tarmon West.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tarmon 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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Name

Tarmon West · An Tearmann Thiar

Area

1,268,298 m² (126.83 ha, 313.4 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnaughtin, and its townlands

Barony

Iraghticonnor

Electoral division

Tarmon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tarmon electoral division: 483 people in 184 households; 92% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dooncaha, Leitrim Middle, Moher, Shrone, Tarmon East

Placenames

Tarmon 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.