Kilcomane
Kilcomane is a townland in the civil parish of Skull, barony of Carbery West (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cill Chomáin.
- Area
- 172.3 ha
- 426 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 161,244 m² (16.12 ha, 39.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcomane, from 818 m² to 341,774 m² (34.18 ha, 84.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Kilcomane 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
6 Jun 2025Conditional
Planning Permission for alterations and an extension to an existing dwellinghouse to consist of (a) the demolition of a sunroom extension (b) the construction of a family room extension (c) internal layout modifications (d) all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/311
30 Nov 2000Conditional
Alterations & extensions to dwelling for short term letting, associated services & access road
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/7229
24 Nov 1999Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/6382
30 Apr 1999Conditional
Renovations & extension to outbuildings for use as dog kennels
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/2198
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 Kilcomane.
Recorded monuments
- CO139-001001 Burial ground
Description
Marked 'Burial Ground for Children' on OS 6-inch map (1842). In scrub. Irregular area defined by overgrowth; grave markers noted. Cross slab (CO139-001002-) on W side. O'Donoghue (1986, 8) refers to church ruins (CO139-001003-) possibly in this burial ground. No visible surface trace. 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
- CO139-001002 Cross-slab
Description
Narrow upright slab (H 1.10m; c. 0.35m x c. 0.35m), standing in W side of children's burial ground (CO139-001001-). Simple crosses incised on W and E faces. 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
- CO139-001003 Church
Description
In burial ground (CO139-001001-). O'Donoghue (1986, 8) refers to church ruins possibly in this burial ground. No visible surface trace. 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
- CO139-002 Habitation site
Description
According to local information, possible hearth site was discovered c. 1980 while lowering level of yard of dwelling house. Fragments of rotary quern and iron slag also found. 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 Kilcomane.
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 Kilcomane, 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 Kilcomane.
- 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 Kilcomane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcomane · Cill Chomáin
- Area
- 1,723,380 m² (172.34 ha, 425.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Skull, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Dunmanus, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 251 people lived in 99 households in the Dunmanus electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyvonane, Barnatonicane, Cashelfean, Ratooragh
- Placenames
- Kilcomane 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.