Coolavanny
Townland in the civil parish of Castleisland, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry; in Irish Cúil an Bhainne
Parcel 1237284
- Area
- 355,459 m² (35.55 ha, 87.84 acres)
- Buildings
- 5 buildings touch it, 1,673 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Coolavanny
Planning applications on this parcel
6 Jun 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A GARAGE/HOBBY SHED AND EXTENDING EXISTING DRIVEWAY/YARD TO ALLOW ACCESS. INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18543
4 Apr 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18310
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- KE040-078 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_260 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 65.8 ha
- 163 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 5,070 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolavanny, from 1,555 m² to 281,020 m² (28.1 ha, 69.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Coolavanny 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
20 Mar 2025Conditional
The development will consist of the installation and operation of a readymix concrete batching plant, associated closed circuit water lagoon system and all ancillary works within an application area of c. 0.2 hectares.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560197
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 Coolavanny.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolavanny.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolavanny.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_260 (ZIP).
- 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 Coolavanny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Coolavanny · Cúil an Bhainne
- Area
- 658,193 m² (65.82 ha, 162.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleisland, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Castleisland, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castleisland electoral division: 3,392 people in 1,351 households; 69% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bawnaskehy, Caheragh, Fieries, Tullig
- Placenames
- Coolavanny 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.