Coomacheo

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coomacheo, from 185,253 m² (18.53 ha, 45.78 acres) to 3,395,347 m² (339.53 ha, 839.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Coomacheo 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.

• 4 Sept 2013Conditional

  Ten year planning permission for an extension to existing Gneeves Wind Farm (Planning Refs. 99/0616, 03/6585, 04/1355, 04/0188, 08/5636, 13/4566). The proposed extension will comprise of 3no. turbines (each with a maximum tip height of 91m), a borrow pit, new internal access roads, upgrading of existing internal access roads, underground cables, an extension to the existing substation building with a wastewater holding tank and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5717

• 23 Aug 2013Incompleted application

  An extension to existing Gneeves Wind Farm (planning refs. 99/0616, 03/6585, 04/1355, 04/188, 08/5636, 13/4566). The proposed extension will comprise of 3 turbines (each with a maximum tip height of 91m), a borrow pit, new internal access roads, upgrading of existing internal access roads, underground cables, an extension to the existing substation building with a wastewater holding tank and ancillary works. An Environmental Impact Statement and Natura Impact Statement accompany this application

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5642

• 3 Apr 2013Unconditional

  Completion of windfarm (13 no. turbines), extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Reg. No. N/99/0616, modified under Planning Reg. No 03/6585 and which received an extension of duration under Planning Reg. No. 08/5636.

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/4566

• 8 Mar 2013Incompleted application

  Completion of windfarm, extension of duration to permission granted under planning Ref. No. N/99/0616, modified under planning Ref. No 03/6585 and which received an extension of duration under planning Ref. No. 08/5636.

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/4386

• 15 Apr 2010Refused

  Construction of 90MW Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Scheme (PHES). The Gortavehy 90MW pumped hydro energy storage scheme will consist of an upper reservoir & a peat storage bund with embankments and an upper intake structure. A lower reservoir with a dam & spillway & lower intake structure. An underground power house. Underground tunnels consisting of a penstock, a tailrace & an access tunnel connecting to the power house. An outdoor 110kV switchyard with connection works. Permanent access roads & a new site entrance on the L1130. Percolation area with a wastewater treatment unit. Site boundary treatments including walls, fencing & landscaping, underground services, on site disposal of surface & storm water to settlement ponds & associated & ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4887

• 25 Mar 2008Unconditional

  Completion of wind farm (13 no. turbines) granted under pl. reg. no. 99/0616 and modified under pl. reg. no. 03/6585

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 08/5636

• 1 Sept 2006Conditional

  Alterations to 110Kv substation compound to serve permitted windfarm development of 17 no. windturbines to include increase in size of substation compound and alterations to layout, increase in size of control building and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10251

• 3 Mar 2004Conditional

  Change in access route for windfarm permitted under Reg. No. N/99/0616

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1355

• 16 Jan 2004Conditional

  Extension to windfarm permitted under reg. no. N/99/0616 to consist of 4 no. wind turbines (hub height 65m, blade tip 91m), construction of and extension of internal site tracks and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/188

• 18 Dec 2003Conditional

  Modifications to windfarm permitted under Reg. No. N/99/0616 to include increase of the turbine height from 44m to 65m

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6585

• 29 Apr 2003Conditional

  Windfarm to include 17 no. turbines, 60m meteorological mast,120KV substation, control building, fencing, compound & anc. works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1997

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coomacheo.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coomacheo.

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Coomacheo.

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 Coomacheo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Coomacheo · Com an Cheo

Area

8,787,920 m² (878.79 ha, 2,171.54 acres)

Civil parish

Drishane, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry West

Electoral division

Caherbarnagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Caherbarnagh electoral division: 534 people in 197 households; 91% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Adrivale, Caherbarnagh, Cummeennabuddoge (Co. Kerry), Curracahill, Gneeves, Gortavehy East, Gortavehy West, Kippagh, Knocknagowan (Co. Kerry), Toorboney

Placenames

Coomacheo 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.