Coolard

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolard, from 15 m² to 711,808 m² (71.18 ha, 175.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Coolard 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.

• 28 Jul 2023Conditional

  to erect a 24m high lattice telecommunications support structure together with antennas, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment all enclosed in security fencing with an extension to an existing access track

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2360059

• 21 Dec 2022Conditional

  MODIFY THE APPROVED GRID CONNECTION FOR THE BALLYDONOHOE SOLAR FARM AS PERMITTED UNDER KERRY COUNTY COUNCIL REFERENCE 21457/AN BORD PLEANÁLA REFERENCE 312288. THE MODIFCATIONS COMPRISE OF (1) THE PROVISION OF A MV CONTROL BUILDING WITHIN THE SOLAR FARM, (2) THE LAYING OF C. 1,747 METRES OF 33KV UNDERGROUND CABLING WITH THE SOLAR FARM SITE, L-1008 AND ADJACENT PUBLIC ROAD TO BE INSTALLED IN AN EXCAVATED TRENCH INCLUDING UNDERGROUND DUCTING, JOINT BAYS, COMMUNICATION CHAMBERS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND REINSTATEMENT WORKS, AND (3) MINOR RELOCATION OF POLE SETS AND ASSOCIATED 33KV OVER-HEAD WIRES WITHIN A C. 216 METRES SECTION OF OVERHEAD LINES ON PRIVATE LANDS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 221340

• 28 Apr 2021Refused

  CONSTRUCT A SOLAR FARM WHICH WILL CONNECT TO THE NATIONAL GRID ON LANDS WITH A TOTAL AREA OF CIRCA 84 HECTARES, CONSISTING OF SOLAR PANELS ON GROUND MOUNTED FRAMES, 19 NO. SINGLE STOREY ELECTRICAL INVERTER/TRANSFORMER STATIONS (1 NO. TO INCLUDE CUSTOMER SWITCH GEAR) AND ASSOCIATED SPARE EQUIPMENT CONTAINER, UNDERGROUND AND OVERGROUND CABLING, SECURITY FENCING, CCTV, ACCESS TRACKS, TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND, LANDSCAPING, AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS AT THE FOLLOWING TOWNALNDS OF BALLYDONOHUE, GLOURIA, COOLARD, KNOCKENAGH SOUTH, CARHOONAKNOCK EAST, COOLKERAGH AND TULLAMORE . THIS APPLICATION IS FOR A 10 TEN YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) HAS BEEN PREPARED AND WLL BE SUBMITTED WITH THE APPLICATION

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 21457

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 Coolard.

Recorded monuments

• KE010-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This circular enclosure is marked on the 1841-42 and 1939 OS maps; however, it was destroyed in 1977-78 to make way for drainage schemes. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 393. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Coolard.

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.

• Coolard, Listowel6 sales

Name

Coolard · An Chúil Ard

Area

1,406,671 m² (140.67 ha, 347.6 acres)

Civil parish

Galey, and its townlands

Barony

Iraghticonnor

Electoral division

Gunsborough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gunsborough electoral division: 369 people in 144 households; 93% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydonohoe, Carhoonaknock East, Carhoonaknock West, Garryard, Glouria, Inch East, Knockenagh North, Knockenagh South

Placenames

Coolard 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.