Coolownig
Coolownig is a townland in the civil parish of Tuosist, barony of Glanarought, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Cúil Domhnaigh.
- Area
- 66.3 ha
- 164 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 3,073 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolownig, from 299 m² to 256,399 m² (25.64 ha, 63.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Coolownig 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
1 Nov 2023Conditional
Full Planning Permission to construct extensions and elevational changes to the existing dwelling house including all associated site services
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360271
11 Dec 2020Conditional
(A) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED WORKS WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES (B) FULL PLANNING PERMISSION TO INSTALL A 'TRICEL SANDCEL' SAND POLISHING FILTER TO SERVE THE EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 201207
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: Kenmare River SAC 002158
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolownig.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolownig.
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 Coolownig, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolownig.
- 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 Coolownig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Coolownig · Cúil Domhnaigh
- Area
- 663,076 m² (66.31 ha, 163.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tuosist, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glanarought
- Electoral division
- Glanmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 245 people lived in 98 households in the Glanmore electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Collorus, Cuhig, Derrygreenia, Eskadawer
- Placenames
- Coolownig 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.