Magh West
Magh West is a townland in the civil parish of Ballymacelligott, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Magh Thiar.
Parcel 3907780
- Area
- 1,336 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 192 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Magh West
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 83.6 ha
- 207 acres
- Land parcels
- 60
- registered freehold, median 2,390 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magh West, from 10 m² to 102,681 m² (10.27 ha, 25.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Magh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Dec 2025Refused
Retention Permission to retain (a) change of use from existing Convalalescent Home and Hospital to 21no. 2 and 3 bedroom apartments (b) retain existing 2no external boilers (c) parking (d) existing street lights (e) Full Planning Permission to Install a Mechanical Aeration unit & Polishing Filter
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2561122
2 Aug 2024Refused
Retention Permission to retain (a) change of use from existing Convalalescent Home and Hospital to 21 no. 2 and 3 bedroom apartments (b) retain existing 2 no external boilers (c) parking (d) and all associated site works
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2460513
18 Jul 2024N/a
Invalid- Retention Permission to retain (a) change of use from existing Convalalescent Hone and Hospital to 21 no 2 and 3 bedroom apartments (b) retain existing 2no external boilers (c) parking (d) and all associated site works
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2460471
21 Jan 2022Conditional
ERECT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE COMPLETE WITH MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND A NEW ENTRANCE OUT ONTO THE PUBLIC ROAD COMPLETE WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2242
8 Dec 2021Conditional
ERECT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND CARRYING OUT ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Outline permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211405
20 Aug 2020Refused
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20741
22 Aug 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY STYLE DWELLING SERVICED BY A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19889
7 Feb 2018Conditional
(PLANNING REF. NO. 16/913) CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS ALL
Permission consequent, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 1887
16 Jan 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 1814
28 Apr 2017Refused
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17388
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Magh West.
Recorded monuments
- KE039-155 Architectural fragment
Description
Architectural fragment of the medieval castle of Castlegregory (KE027-008----) now incorporated into the fabric of Edenburn House which was described in 1899 as follows; 'There was only one stone remaining of this famous castle in our day, which was taken away by Archdeacon Rowan, and is now, we believe, inserted in the wall of Edenburn House' (Prendergast 1899, 29). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 June 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Magh 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Magh West, about 1 in 10 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Magh 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Magh West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Magh West · Magh Thiar
- Area
- 836,320 m² (83.63 ha, 206.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymacelligott, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Nohaval, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 391 people lived in 141 households in the Nohaval electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloontarriv, Glanbane, Gortatlea, Magh East, Maglass West, Rockfield, Shanavally
- Placenames
- Magh 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.