Cloonkeen
Townland in the civil parish of Killaha, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry; in Irish Cluain Chaoin
- Area
- 284.8 ha
- 704 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 1,744 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonkeen, from 52 m² to 986,647 m² (98.66 ha, 243.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Cloonkeen 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
11 Jun 2021Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA (2) DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA (3) ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH (1) AND (2) (4) CONVERT EXISTING COTTAGE TO DOMESTIC STORE/GARAGE ANCILLARY TO THE PROPOSED DWELLING ON OUR SITE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21636
17 Jun 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH ASSOCIATED YARDS AND WALLS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 20519
26 Jan 2004Conditional
Construction of 5.8km overhead transmission line of single circuit 110kV
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/356
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: 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
- KE076-035 Enclosure
Description
In rough pasture, on an uneven surface, overlooking the valley of the Clydagh River. A roughly square enclosure (c. 25m N-S; c. 25m E-W) is visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, W 362-3). This enclosure is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonkeen.
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 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 Cloonkeen.
- 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 Cloonkeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonkeen · Cluain Chaoin
- Area
- 2,848,327 m² (284.83 ha, 703.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killaha, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Clydagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clydagh electoral division: 125 people in 49 households; 79% of households own their home; 17% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coomacullen, Derrymaclavlode, Derryreag, Inchamore (Co. Cork), Killeen
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Cloonkeen 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.