Coolbeha
Coolbeha is a townland in the civil parish of Galey, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Cúil Bheithe.
- Area
- 77.1 ha
- 191 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 4,682 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolbeha, from 13 m² to 368,195 m² (36.82 ha, 90.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Coolbeha 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
22 Apr 2024Conditional
To construct a slatted cubicle house for cows complete with slatted slurry tanks cubicles, scrapers and central passage. In this application included is a natura impact statement (NIS) for the farmyard
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460238
10 Aug 2023N/a
To construct a slatted cubicle house for cows complete with slatted slurry tanks cubicles, scrapers and central passage.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2360083
16 Feb 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT (1) A WASTE FACILITY FOR THE IMPORTATION OF INERT WASTE MATERIALS COMPRISING SOIL AND STONE (LoW 17 05 04 and LoW 20 02 02) CONCRETE ( LoW 17 01 01 ) BRICKS (LoW 17 01 02) TILES AND CERAMICS ( LoW 17 01 03.) MISTURES OF CONCRETE, BRICKS, TILES 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 (11) UPGRADING INTERNAL SITE ACCESS ROADS AND INSTALLING A WHEEL WASH TO SERVE THE SITE AND (111)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 APPLICATION IS FOR A 10 YEAR PERMISSION
Permission · Kerry County Council, 22163
9 Jun 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW DAIRY, MILKING PARLOUR AND POWER ROOM, MEAL SILO, DAIRY HOLDING YARD, TO DEMOLISH OLD HAY SHED, MILKING PARLOUR, DAIRY AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 20488
9 Jun 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT AN UNDERPASS FOR CATTLE UNDER THE PUBLIC ROAD BESIDE THE CROSSING POINT FOR THE HERD OF COWS, WITH RELEVANT ACCESS RAMPS, EFFLUENT AND SOILED WATER TANK AND RE-PIPE THE ROADSIDE DRAIN FOR THE WIDTH OF THE UNDERPASS AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 20489
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 Coolbeha.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolbeha.
Architectural heritage
- Coolbeha House, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached T-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1830, with single-bay two-storey return to south. Single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch added in mid twentieth century. Now disused and partly derelict. Pitched and hipped slate roof with clay ride tiles and projecting eaves. Painted roughcast rendered rubble stone walls. Timber six-over-six and three-over-three pane sliding sash windows with painted limestone sills. Square-headed doorway with timber glazed door and limestone steps. Farmyard to south with rubble outbuildings. Single rendered gatepost with limestone capping and cast-iron gates.
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 Coolbeha, 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 Coolbeha.
- 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 Coolbeha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Coolbeha · Cúil Bheithe
- Area
- 771,074 m² (77.11 ha, 190.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Galey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Electoral division
- Gunsborough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 369 people lived in 144 households in the Gunsborough electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolkeragh, Glouria, Kilgarvan, Knockenagh North, Knockenagh South
- Placenames
- Coolbeha 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.