Coolaclarig
Coolaclarig is a townland in the civil parish of Listowel, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Cúil an Chláraigh.
- Area
- 285.2 ha
- 705 acres
- Land parcels
- 62
- registered freehold, median 3,733 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolaclarig, from 17 m² to 449,177 m² (44.92 ha, 110.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Coolaclarig 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
25 Aug 2026N/a
(a) planning permission to erect a bungalow type dwellinghouse with a wastewater treatment unit and sand polishing filter, (b) retention permission to retain concrete piers and entrance walls as constructed, and for permission to complete same, (c) retention permission to retain concrete panels boundary fence to the southern boundary of site, also retention permission to retain concrete posts with timber panels to the eastern boundary of site, (d) retention permission to retain stone area of site.
Retention · Kerry County Council, 26136
13 Nov 2025Conditional
(A) Retain 2 no. storage sheds for storing timber pallets also to retain concrete yard to the rear of same, (B) Retain concrete panels boundary walls to the side and rear of same, (C) Retain access roadway to same, (D) Planning permission to erect entrance gates with piers and concrete wing walls to same all on his site.
Retention · Kerry County Council, 25270
2 May 2025N/a
(A) RETAIN 2 NO. STORAGE SHEDS FOR STORING TIMBER PALETTES, ALSO TO RETAIN CONCRETE YARD TO THE REAR OF SAME, AND RETAIN CONCRETE PANELS, BOUNDARY WALLS TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF SAME, AND RETAIN ACCESS ROADWAY TO SAME, AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO ERECT GATES TO SAME, (B) RETAIN CONCRETE POTS WITH TIMBER PANELS TO THE REAR BOUNDARY OF ADJOINONG SITE NO. 1. (C) RETAIN CONCRETE POSTS WITH TIMBER PANELS TO THE REAR OF SITE NO. 2 AND RETAIN CONCRETE PANELS THE SIDE OF SAME AND RETAIN STONE ACCESS DRIVE TO SAME, AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO ERECT ENTRANCE GATES TO SAME
Retention · Kerry County Council, 25110
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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolaclarig.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolaclarig.
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 Coolaclarig, about 1 in 10 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 Coolaclarig.
- 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 Coolaclarig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Coolaclarig · Cúil an Chláraigh
- Area
- 2,851,883 m² (285.19 ha, 704.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Listowel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Electoral division
- Cloontubbrid, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 289 people lived in 114 households in the Cloontubbrid electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonmackon, Coolatoosane, Knockane, Meen, Pollagh, Tullamore
- Placenames
- Coolaclarig 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.