Keel

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keel, from 759 m² to 411,419 m² (41.14 ha, 101.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Keel 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.

• 28 Aug 2025Conditional permission

  Permission to construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage served by mechanical aeration unit & soil polishing filter.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5724

• 12 Aug 2025Conditional permission

  Permission to Retain existing dwelling house, mechanical aeration unit and sand polishing filter and all associated site works within revised site boundaries

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/5621

• 11 Jul 2025Incompleted application

  Retention Planning Permission to retain existing dwelling house, mechanical aeration unit and sand polishing filter and all associated site works within revised site boundaries.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 25/5396

• 26 Mar 2025Conditional permission

  Permission for alterations and extension to existing dwelling consisting of the following: 1) Renovations to existing dwelling and the construction of a single storey extension to the side of same dwelling. 2) To install a new secondary wastewater treatment system and tertiary filter to serve existing dwelling. 3) The construction of a new site entrance to serve existing dwelling and all associated site works and services.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4524

• 29 Apr 2022Refused

  (i) Demolish an existing building and remove associated fuel and oil tanks (ii) Erect a new garage building for the repair of motor vehicles along with use of same for depollution and dismantling of end of life vehicles and use of the building for storage of vehicles and parts and (iii) Storage of end of life vehicles and parts in external yard areas (iv) Decommissioning of existing septic tank and permission to install a new wastewater treatment system and ancillary sit works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the planning authority with the application.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4977

• 21 Jan 2022Withdrawn

  The development will consist of (i) Permission to demolish an existing building and remove associated fuel and oil tanks (ii) permission to erect a new garage building for the repair of motor vehicles along with use of same for depollution and dismantling of end of life vehicles and use of the building for storage of vehicles and parts and (iii) permission for storage of end of life vehicles and parts in external yard areas (iv) decommissioning of existing septic tank and permission to install new wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the planning authority with the application.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4091

• 13 Aug 2021Withdrawn

  (i) Permission to demolish an existing building and remove associated fuel and oil tanks (ii) Permission to erect a new garage building for the repair of motor vehicles along with use of same for depollution and dismantling of end of life vehicles and use of the building for storage of vehicles and parts and (iii) Permission for storage of end of life vehicles and parts in external yard areas (iv) Decommissioning of existing septic tank and permission to install a new wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6243

• 16 Jun 2021Conditional

  Erect a 24m high lattice telecommunications support structure together with associated telecommunications equipment all enclosed in security fencing and to extend the existing access track.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5665

• 14 Aug 2019Incompleted application

  Retention of i) existing vehicle de-polluting building and associated above ground storage tanks, ii) existing portacabin office, iii) container acting as tyre removal workshop, iv) 3 no. existing scrap storage bays, v) existing solid fuel (timber/briquettes) storage building for sale of same and vi) car baler

  Retention · Cork County Council, 19/6036

• 10 Mar 2014Conditional

  Permission for retention for the following existing structures:- (A) Existing garage/workshop for the repair of motor vehicles, (B) Existing storage building of vehicule parts, (C) Existing office portacabin, (D) Existing shed for storage of fuel (timber/coal) for sale of same and permission to change use of part of fuel storage shed to depollution/dismantling of end of life vehicles and install a silt trap and interceptor

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4487

• 18 Feb 2014Incompleted application

  Retention of the following existing structures (a) garage/workshop for the repair of motor vehicles, (b) Storage building of vehicle parts, (c) office portacabin, (d) shed for storage of fuel (timber/coal) for sale of same, and Permission for change of use of part of fuel storage shed to depollution/dismantling of end of life vehicles and installation of a silt trap and separator

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4293

• 1 Oct 2007Incompleted application

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11319

• 26 Apr 2007Refused

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7297

• 31 Jan 2007Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4624

• 1 Jun 2006Conditional

  Construction of cattle shed, loose house and underground effluent tanks

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7745

• 27 Mar 2006Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5851

• 24 Mar 2004Refused

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1934

• 25 Feb 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1156

• 22 Dec 2003Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6684

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 Keel.

Recorded monuments

• CO022-112001 Burial ground
  Description

  Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular area defined by broken line and named 'Old Grave Yard'; shown on 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps as hachured circular area and named 'Children's Burial Ground'. In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular area (41.5m N-S; 39.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (max. int. H 1.1m) with shallow external fosse (max. D 0.7m). Interior under silage and sloping down to S; two low stones (H c. 0.2m; 0.35m x 0.16m) noted. Bowman (1934, 474) also noted possible remains of church (14486) as well as on S side 'many headstones c. 9ins high...a large mound of stones...a depression 20ft by 16 by c. 3ft deep.' No surface evidence for any of these now. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO022-112002 Church
  Description

  In burial ground (14108). Bowman (1934, 474) recorded '8 mounds of rough stones' at N side which he surmised may be remains of church. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Keel.

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

Name

Keel · An Chill

Area

840,320 m² (84.03 ha, 207.65 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeen (Kanturk Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Boherboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Boherboy electoral division: 753 people in 308 households; 76% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawnaneel, Islandav, Kilnahulla Beg, Kilnahulla More, Knocklagh, Knocknacurragh

Placenames

Keel 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.