Coolnaleen Upper

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolnaleen Upper, from 313 m² to 748,678 m² (74.87 ha, 185 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Coolnaleen Upper 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Coolnaleen Upper in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 the townland of Coolnaleen Upper.

Recorded monuments

• KE016-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 24.2m N-S, 27m E-W This bivallate rath is situated on a rise which slopes steeply E-W. The rath consists of a sub-circular area enclosed by a well-defined earthen bank with a steep exterior side. It is on average 7.2m wide, and rises to 2.1m-3.6m high externally and 1.6m high internally. The intervening fosse is U shaped and well defined, 1m-3m wide. The outer earthen bank is also well defined, though to the S it is much lower and has a steep exterior side due to the slope in the land. The outer bank is on average 7m wide and varies from .6m-2.6m in height internally and 2.6m-6m in height on the external S side. An exterior fosse can be noted NW through N to NE, where it is U shaped, c 2.4m wide and 1m below the height of the surrounding land. A 4m wide opening exists on the inner bank to the E and a causeway extends across the fosse to a 3.4m wide opening in the outer bank. A 2.2m wide gap exists to the W. The maximum external diameter N-S is 65.7m and 56m E-W. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 624. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE016-006001 Souterrain
  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 in the townland of Coolnaleen Upper.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_231 (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.

No address of the register names Coolnaleen Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Coolnaleen Upper

Area

1,201,849 m² (120.18 ha, 296.98 acres)

Civil parish

Kilshenane, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Listowel Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Listowel Rural electoral division: 1,654 people in 635 households; 83% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyduhig, Billeragh, Coolnaleen Lower, Furhane, Garryantanvally, Moyassa

Placenames

Coolnaleen Upper 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.