Coolroe Lower

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolroe Lower, from 70 m² to 246,648 m² (24.66 ha, 60.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Coolroe Lower 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.

• 10 Sept 2025Refused

  for full planning permission for a) permission to construct an all-weather playing surface, b) permission to erect perimeter fencing and high ball netting, c) permission to erect flood lighting, d) permission to construct a new pedestrian bridge to access the new pitch from the school grounds

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560807

• 21 Dec 2021Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT A SERIES OF SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSIONS , INCLUDING A LOFT SPACE (B) MODIFY EXISTING SELECTED WINDOW/DOOR OPENINGS AND (C) INSTALL 2NO. ROOFLIGHTS TO EXISTING ROOF AND (D) RETENTION PERMISSION FOR 2 NO. EXISTING TIMBER CLAD STORAGE SHEDS, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211488

• 16 Dec 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SECONDARY TREATMENT UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191279

• 26 Jan 2018Conditional

  PLANNING PERMISSION TO RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE, TO INSTALL A NEW MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER AND TO DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM, ALSO TO COMPLETE GENERAL LANDSCAPING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 1847

• 19 Dec 2017N/a

  RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED, EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK, COMPLETE GENERAL LANDSCAPING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 171269

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 Coolroe Lower.

Recorded monuments

• KE063-020 Standing stone
  Description

  No trace survives of the ‘Gallaun’ marked at this location on the OS maps. It was situated SW of the river Behy, in an area that has been extensively reclaimed. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 232. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolroe Lower.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolroe Lower.

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.

• Coolroe Lower, Glenbeigh6 sales

Name

Coolroe Lower

Area

975,162 m² (97.52 ha, 240.97 acres)

Civil parish

Glanbehy, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Glanbehy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glanbehy electoral division: 1,269 people in 465 households; 76% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 39% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakilly Lower, Coolroe Upper, Curra, Drom, Gowlane

Placenames

Coolroe Lower 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.