Kilgulbin West

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilgulbin West, from 42 m² to 308,271 m² (30.83 ha, 76.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilgulbin 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.

• 5 Jun 2026N/a

  the importation of c.150,000 tonnes of greenfield soil and subsoil (product) to raise the ground level of existing lands by between 0.5m to 4m on the 3.61 ha site in order to improve the agricultural value

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660503

• 9 Mar 2022Conditional

  CHANGE HOUSE DESIGN THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 19/418 TO A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22258

• 7 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A LIVESTOCK UNDERPASS, EFFLUENT HOLDING TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 201175

• 24 Apr 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTIC DEVELOPMENT SERVICED BY A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT WITH INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19418

• 12 Jul 2018Conditional

  (A) FULL PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT EXTENSION TO DAIRY AND CATTLE HANDLING FACILITY INCLUDING DRAFTING, CATTLE CRUSH AND HOLDING PENS; (B) RETENTION PERMISSION TO COMPLETE AND RETAIN A SLATED CUBICLE HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANKS

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 18702

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 Kilgulbin West.

Recorded monuments

• KE021-042 Fulacht fia
  Description

  According to local information, burnt stones were exposed during ploughing; no surface trace survives today. We are grateful to the FÁS Finuge Survey for supplying the information for the Finuge fulachta fiadh (KE016-077---- KE016-078----). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 83. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE021-047 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Gortduff Fort/Lios an Ghoirt Dhuibh (ringfort of the black field). This circular enclosure is marked on the 1841-42 and 1898 OS maps. On the later edition the S sector has been incorporated into a fieldbank running E-W, while a lime kiln is noted in the SW sector. The site shows up slightly on the Geological Survey of Ireland's aerial photographs (1977) but all that survives today is the curve in the fieldbank, which depicts the S sector of the enclosing bank. The rest was completely levelled about five years ago. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 753. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE021-048 Fulacht fia
  Description

  An area of burnt, fire-shattered stones were uncovered during ploughing; no surface trace survives today (local information). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 82. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE021-049 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as a circular enclosure on both the 1841-42 and 1898 OS maps, this site has been completely levelled and no visible trace survives. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 754. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE021-069 Enclosure
  Description

  Ballinhonick Forts/Liosanna Bhaile Sheonaic (ringfort of the homestead of Seonac - personal name). Situated immediately N of KE021-070----, this circular enclosure is marked on the 1841-42 and 1898 OS maps. No surface trace of it survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 752. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE021-070 Enclosure
  Description

  Ballinhonick Forts/Liosanna Bhaile Sheonaic (ringfort of the homestead of Seonac - personal name) is situated NE of a rocky outcrop and lies immediately S of (752). This circular enclosure appears on the 1841-42 and 1898 OS maps. However, no surface trace survives. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 751. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilgulbin 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

At the centre of the townland of Kilgulbin West, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilgulbin West.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Kilgulbin West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Kilgulbin West · Cill Ghuilbin Thiar

Area

1,837,470 m² (183.75 ha, 454.05 acres)

Civil parish

O'Dorney, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Tubrid, the unit of the census

Census 2022

870 people lived in 299 households in the Tubrid electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardrahan, Ballybroman, Ballydooneen, Ballysheen, Creegooane, Fortwilliam, Kilgulbin East, Sackville, Tubrid More

Placenames

Kilgulbin 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.