Coolcreen
Townland in the civil parish of Tuosist, barony of Glanarought, Co. Kerry; in Irish Cuar Cruinn
- Area
- 302.7 ha
- 748 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 3,282 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
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolcreen, from 956 m² to 2,043,975 m² (204.4 ha, 505.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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 Coolcreen 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
10 Aug 2024Conditional
The development consists of (a) Planning Permission to convert the attic space of the house to habitable accommodation and make elevational changes to the house to facilitate same, and (b) Retention Planning Permission to retain the domestic shed and well house as constructed.
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460535
20 Mar 2018Conditional
ADD FRONT AND REAR PORCHES AND ONE ADDITIONAL WINDOW TO EXISTING DWELLING PLUS GARAGE AND STORAGE TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18251
5 Feb 2018N/a
ADD FRONT AND REAR PORCHES AND ONE ADDITIONAL WINDOW TO EXISTING DWELLING PLUS GARAGE AND STORAGE TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING
Permission · Kerry County Council, 1874
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: Caha Mountains SAC 000093
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Caha Mountains 000093
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glanmore Lake 001354
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolcreen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolcreen.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolcreen.
- 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 Coolcreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Coolcreen · Cuar Cruinn
- Area
- 3,027,155 m² (302.72 ha, 748.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tuosist, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glanarought
- Electoral division
- Glanmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glanmore electoral division: 245 people in 98 households; 86% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Canagullen, Clashduff (Co. Cork), Clogherane, Dromaclaurig, Gortavallig, Knockowen
- Placenames
- Coolcreen 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.