Aghacoora

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghacoora, from 4,638 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres) to 291,179 m² (29.12 ha, 71.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Aghacoora 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Aghacoora 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 the townland of Aghacoora.

Recorded monuments

• KE015-118 Enclosure
  Description

  This small semi-circular enclosure is marked on the 1916 OS map, but not marked on the earlier 1841-42 map. No surface trace survives today. According to local tradition an ancient route (KE015-132----) ran NW of this possible enclosure. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1060. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE015-119 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 33m N-S, 35m E-W This univallate rath has now been much levelled, but it is still quite distinguishable. It is situated on slightly rising land, which is gently sloping SE to the River Brick. According to the landowner, a fulacht fiadh lay to the E (KE015-120----). This site consists of a circular area enclosed by a low, wide earthen bank c 10m in width at the base. The enclosing bank rises to a maximum height of 1.4m above the surrounding land, and .7m-1.2m above the interior. In the NE sector there is a gap of 9m in this bank. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 510. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE015-120 Fulacht fia
  Description

  According to local information a fulacht fiadh and a well originally lay E of a ringfort (510). No surface trace of these can be seen today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 62. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE015-147 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated in tillage field. Cropmark of circular-shaped earthwork (diam. c. 35m) visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthophotos Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 17 May 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Aghacoora, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghacoora.

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.

No address of the register names Aghacoora with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Aghacoora · Achadh Chumhra

Area

1,041,748 m² (104.17 ha, 257.42 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltomy, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Ballincloher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

461 people lived in 171 households in the Ballincloher electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derryvrin, Garrynagore, Gortadrislig, Killaspicktarvin, Liscullane

Placenames

Aghacoora 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.