Inch West

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inch West, from 42 m² to 559,153 m² (55.92 ha, 138.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Inch 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.

• 13 Oct 2025Conditional

  Retention Permission to a) Retain the existing entrance walls and gates as constructed and b) Retain all associated site works at Ardroe, Inch, Co. Kerry

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560932

• 6 Dec 2024Refused

  (A) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN THE EXISTING STRUCTURE AS IT EXISTS ON THE SITE. AND (B) PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT TO CONVERT THE EXISTING STRUCTURE TO A GLAMPING POD INCLUDING CONNECTING IT TO THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2460949

• 1 Dec 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND SHED WITH A WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT, PURAFLO MODULES AND POLISHING FILTER INCLUDING ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221254

• 25 Nov 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL NECESSARY ALTERATIONS AND SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221226

• 13 Feb 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC EXTENSION TO FRONT AND SIDE OF THE EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND TO DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND TO REPLACE IT WITH A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20133

• 10 Apr 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC EXTENSION TO FRONT & SIDE OF THE EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 19373

• 20 Mar 2018Conditional

  (A) RENOVATE AND EXTEND EXISTING SHED/FORMER DWELLING FOR USE AS A DWELLING AND INSTALL NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER (B) RE-ROOF AND REPAIR EXISTING DERELICT SHED (C) CHANGE USE OF EXISTING DWELLING TO STORAGE AREA (D)REPLACE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18253

• 20 Feb 2018N/a

  (A) ERECT EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND INSTALL NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER, (B) REPLACE ROOF AND RENOVATE EXISTING DERELICT SHED AND (C) CHANGE OF USE OF EXISITNG DWELLING TO STORAGE AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 18139

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: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343
• Special Protection Area: Castlemaine Harbour SPA 004029
• Special Protection Area: Dingle Peninsula SPA 004153
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Castlemaine Harbour 000343

Recorded monuments

• KE045-085001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Turrasnadíha Well/Tobar na Croise [Well of the Cross]: This well appears to have been filled in or diverted but the cross-slab which stood over it is still in situ. The stone is 0.55m high and bears a Greek cross on its SSE face. The arms of the cross terminate with slightly bulbous depressions. A penannular circle surrounds the outer portion of each arm and with them forms a trifid motif. Turas na Duimhche was carried out at the site, on St. John's day, until at least 1960 (Ó Danachair 1960, 71). It included a visit to Bun an Turais, a spot on the sea-cliffs about 600m to SE, and may also have included a visit to Com an Bhráthar, part of the sea-cliff about 350m S of the well (An Seabhac 1939, 196-7). Ó Danachair (1960, 71) recorded the following details about this well; ' "Turrasnadiha Well" on 1842 map; "Turas na Duimhche" and "Tobar na Croise" - local, from a stone at the well which has a cross carved upon it. The turas or pilgrimage is still carried out, but not by as many as formerly, on Saint John's Day (Midsummer). The pilgrim recites a rosary on the way to the well. He then makes nine circuits of the well, saying a pater and ave during each circuit, after which he goes to a place on the edge of the cliff, about 600 yards to the south west of the well, and says some prayers there. This place is called Bun an Turais (Bunaturrish on 1842 map)'. See attached colour photographs courtesy of Amanda Clarke. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 941. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE045-085002 Cross-inscribed stone
  Description

  Turrasnadiha Well/Tobar na Croise: This well appears to have been filled in or diverted but the cross-slab KE045-085002- which stood over it is still in situ. The stone is .55m high and bears a Greek cross on its SSE face. The arms of the cross terminate with slightly bulbous depressions. A penannular circle surrounds the outer portion of each arm and with them forms a trifid motif. Turas na Duimhche was carried out at the site, on St. John's day, until at least 1960 (Ó Danachair, 71). It included a visit to Bun an Turais, a spot on the sea-cliffs about 600m to SE, and may also have included a visit to Com an Bhráthar, part of the sea-cliff about 350m S of the well (An Seabhac 1939, 196-7). See attached colour photograph courtesy of Amanda Clarke. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 941. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE045-086 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. at least 25m This univallate rath is perched on the edge of the sea-cliffs that border the N side of Dingle Bay, W of the Inch peninsula. It was shown on the 1st edition of the OS map as a circular enclosure, but all but the NE part of the site has now fallen into the sea. The fosse is present only around the N side of the present remains. It increases considerably in depth as it approaches the narrow inlet or gorge to W of the site. At N it is 2.2m deep below the external ground level and 3.7m below the crest of the bank. The bank is a maximum of 2.95m high above the interior, but its E half is much less impressive than the N half, being only c. 1m high. The stone facing on the outer face of the bank in the E sector is probably a late feature related to the secondary use of the site for cultivation purposes; the interior is occupied by N-S cultivation ridges. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 462. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Inch 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 Inch 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Name

Inch West · Inse Thiar

Area

1,455,412 m² (145.54 ha, 359.64 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinvoher, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaguiny

Electoral division

Inch, the unit of the census

Census 2022

160 people lived in 68 households in the Inch electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 31% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardroe, Ballynane, Glannaheera, Gortnanooran, Tullig

Placenames

Inch 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.