Keelaraheen
Townland in the civil parish of Fanlobbus, barony of Carbery East (West Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Caol an Ráithín
- Area
- 167.5 ha
- 414 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 2,952 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keelaraheen, from 119 m² to 613,930 m² (61.39 ha, 151.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Keelaraheen 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
22 Oct 2021Conditional
Permission to construct dwelling and attached garage and all associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/726
27 Oct 2020Conditional
Permission for the construction of a new part two storey, part single storey dwelling house with an attached carport and garage, a new site entrance and all associated site works including a new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/599
8 Oct 2020Incompleted application
The construction of a new part two storey, part single storey dwelling house with an attached carport and garage, a new site entrance and all associated site works including a new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/546
27 Jun 2019Conditional
Permission for the construction of a new part storey and a half, part single storey dwelling house with an attached carport and garage, a new site entrance and all associated site works including a new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/428
16 May 2019Incompleted application
For the construction of a new part storey and a half, part single storey dwelling house with an attached carport and garage, a new site entrance and all associated site works including a new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/339
4 Jun 2009Conditional
Dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/643
5 Mar 2009Withdrawn
Dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/233
23 Mar 2007Conditional
Construct cattle house with slatted slurry tank, silage slab, concrete aprons and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/819
13 Apr 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/630
9 Mar 2006Incompleted application
Bungalow, garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/371
28 Jun 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4699
16 Feb 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage and demolition of dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/860
5 Jul 2001Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/3873
18 Sept 2000Conditional
Demolition of outbuildings & construction of extension to dwellinghouse & installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/5652
18 Sept 2000Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 00/5631
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Bandon River SAC 002171
Recorded monuments
- CO093-073 Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
Description
On N bank of Bandon River. Mill (L 2.7m) exposed by mechanical excavator in 1976; 'Five planks of varying sizes... the longest example being 2.43m long, around 28cm wide and 15cm thick were recovered' (Rynne 1988, 329). Dendrochronologically dated to c. A.D. 843 (Baillie 1982, 192). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO093-074 Souterrain
Description
Discovered October 1989 when roof of chamber collapsed. In pasture on S-facing slope. At least three earth-cut chambers arranged in linear pattern N-S. Central chamber, circular in plan (diam. 2m); construction shaft at NW corner. Creepholes at N and S ends to inaccessible chambers. N chamber narrows towards NE, possibly original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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 Keelaraheen.
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
- About 1 in 5 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 Keelaraheen.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Keelaraheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Keelaraheen · Caol an Ráithín
- Area
- 1,674,611 m² (167.46 ha, 413.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Fanlobbus, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Coolmountain, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Coolmountain electoral division: 435 people in 156 households; 80% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cooranig, Derrylahan, Gortanure, Mallabracka, Neaskin, Togher
- Placenames
- Keelaraheen 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.