Coolcaslagh
Coolcaslagh is a townland in the civil parish of Killarney, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Cúil Chaisleach.
- Area
- 186.4 ha
- 461 acres
- Land parcels
- 113
- registered freehold, median 1,666 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
113 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolcaslagh, from 2 m² to 159,706 m² (15.97 ha, 39.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Coolcaslagh 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
15 Dec 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCT A BUILDING FOR THE PURPOSE OF STORAGE ANCILLARY TO EXISTING PRINTING WORKS ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARY SERVICES
Extension of duration · Kerry County Council, 189100
11 Oct 2022Conditional
RETAIN DWELLING WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO (A) CONSTRUCT A NEW EXTENSION ONTO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (B) OPEN NEW ENTRANCE AND CLOSE THE EXISTING ENTRANCE (C) CONSTRUCT A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221061
27 Oct 2021Conditional
DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ADJONING SHEDS, DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS/ANCILLARY SERVICES AND AREAS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211224
27 Apr 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORAGE SHED
Permission · Kerry County Council, 21453
23 Oct 2019Conditional
RELOCATING ITS INFRASTRUCTURE AT ITS QUARRY. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF (1) AN OFFICE, (2) A WEIGHBRIDGE, (3) A WHEELWASH, (4) UPGRADE ENTRANCE AND INTERNAL ROAD, (5) PARKING FACILITIES (6) TO PERMANENTLY CLOSE THE SOUTHERN ENTRANCE TO THE QUARRY AND (7) ALL RELATED ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT AND ASSOCITED SITE WORKS.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 191094
7 Aug 2019Conditional
FOR THE DEVELOPMENT WHICH WILL CONSIST OF THE CONTINUANCE OF USE OF THE EXISTING QUARRY WHICH HAS A SITE AREA OF 23.4 HECTARES AT BALLAHACOMMANE, KILLARNEY, CO KERRY AND EXTENSION OF THE QUARRY IN ARDANEANIG COMPRISING A TOTAL SITE AREA OF 11.3 HECTARES, WHICH IS CONTIGUOUS WITH THE EXISTING QUARRY, FOR THE EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING OF SAND AND GRAVEL. PROCESSING WILL CONTINUE TO TAKE PLACE IN THE EXISTING BALLAHACOMMANE QUARRY. THE DEVELOPMENT ALSO COMPRISES REPLACEMENT OF THE SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA. PROCESSED MATERIAL WILL BE EXPORTED VIA THE EXISTING BALLAHACOMMANE QUARRY ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROAD TO THE N72. PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR AN OPERATIONAL LIFE OF 25 YEARS. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANY THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Kerry County Council, 19839
9 Feb 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A BUILDING FOR THE PURPOSE OF STORAGE ANCILLARY TO EXISTING PRINTING WORKS ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARY SERVICES
Permission · Kerry County Council, 18100
12 May 2017Conditional
FOR THE EXTENSION TO UNIT 2 LIGHT INDUSTRIAL BUILDING. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF EXTENDING A LIGHT INDUSTRIAL BUILDING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 17436
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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
Recorded monuments
- KE067-021 Enclosure
Description
In a disused sand quarry. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) is visible on an aerial photograph (GSIAP, V 396/W 447) taken in 1977. There are no visible remains of this enclosure or of a possible hut site (KE067-021001-) within it. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011
- KE067-021001 Hut site
Description
In a disused sand quarry. This possible hut site is visible as a circular feature (diam. c. 5m) within an enclosure (KE067-021----) on an aerial photograph (GSIAP, V 396/W 447) taken in 1977. There are no visible remains of this possible hut site or of the enclosure. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolcaslagh.
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 Coolcaslagh, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_263 (ZIP).
- 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 Coolcaslagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Coolcaslagh · Cúil Chaisleach
- Area
- 1,863,850 m² (186.39 ha, 460.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killarney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Killarney Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 7,735 people lived in 2,446 households in the Killarney Rural electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardaneanig, Ballahacommane, Knockearagh, Lissyviggeen, Teernaboul
- Placenames
- Coolcaslagh 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.