Coolbane West
Townland in the civil parish of Killorglin, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry
- Area
- 58.1 ha
- 144 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 3,272 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolbane West, from 757 m² to 195,377 m² (19.54 ha, 48.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Coolbane West 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
23 Feb 2022Conditional
(I) A WASTE FACILITY FOR THE IMPORTATION OF INERT WASTE MATERIALS COMPRISING SOIL AND STONE (LOW 17 05 04 & LOW 20 02 02), CONCRETE (LOW 17 01 01), BRICKS (LOW 17 01 02), TILES AND CERAMICS (LOW 17 01 03), MIXTURES OF CONCRETE, BRICKS, TIELS AND CERAMICS (LOW 17 01 07), DREDGING SPOIL (LOW 17 05 06), AND TRACK BALLAST (LOW 17 05 08) FOR THE PURPOSE OF FILLING AND RAISING LAND TO IMPROVE IT FOR AGRICULTURAL USE, (II) USING THE EXISTING SITE ACCESS, WHICH IS TO BE UPGRADED TO IMRPOVE SIGHT DISTRANCE; UPGRADING AND DEVELOPING INTERNAL SITE ACCESS ROADS, AND INSTALLING A WHEEL WASH TO SERVE THE FACILITY, AND (III) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL REQUIRE A WASTE FACILITY PERMIT FROM KERRY COUNTY COUNCIL TO AUTHORISE THE WASTE RECOVERY ACTIVITY. THE SITE, WHICH IS PRESENTLY USED AS AGRICULTURAL GRASSLAND, WILL REVERT BACK TO AGRICULTURAL GRASSLAND AFTER THE WORKS ARE COMPLETED. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT IS INCLUDED WITH THE PLANNING APPLICATION. THIS IS A 10 YEAR APPLICATION.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 22196
17 Dec 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE C/W SEPTIC TANK AND SECONDARY TREATMENT "PURAFLOW" SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211464
5 Aug 2020Conditional
(1) RETAIN EXISTING SHEDS, (2) DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20697
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: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolbane West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolbane West.
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 moderately high, 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_114 (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 Coolbane West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Coolbane West
- Area
- 580,948 m² (58.09 ha, 143.56 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killorglin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Dromin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dromin electoral division: 852 people in 302 households; 87% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolbane East, Corbally, Dungeel, Gortnaskarry, Mweelcaha
- Placenames
- Coolbane West 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.