Coolroe Upper

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolroe Upper, from 69 m² to 938,501 m² (93.85 ha, 231.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Coolroe 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.

• 10 Nov 2025Conditional

  Full planning permission to (A) construct new dwelling house and (B) construct new septic tank and percolation area along with all ancillary site services at Coolroe Upper, Glenbeigh, Co.Kerry

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561042

• 3 Oct 2023Conditional

  (A) DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING (B) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING , DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 231026

• 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

• 8 Dec 2017Conditional

  RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES ,ALSO TO RETAIN EXISTING PEDESTRIAN ENTRANCE GATE TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 171221

• 1 Feb 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN ANIMAL HOUSE INCORPORATING A SLATTED AREA WITH UNDERGROUND TANK AND A LOOSE HOUSE AREA ON HIS LANDS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 1769

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE063-011 Church
  Description

  There are no visible remains of this church (SMR file); it would appear to post-date 1700 AD. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE063-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 27.5m NE-SW, c. 24m NW-SE Situated on a plateau on the lower NW slopes of Coolroe mountain, this poorly preserved univallate rath overlooks Dingle Bay to N. The enclosing bank and fosse are extant only from S to NW, and elsewhere the outline of the site is barely traceable. The extant portion is densely overgrown and the fosse, 1.5m wide, is partially infilled. The bank is composed of earth, with a large mixture of small stones, and large slabs flank sections of its inner face. It has an external height of 1.8m and averages 1.75m wide. The interior of the site has been raised at N to compensate for the slope in the land and measures .8m above external ground level here. 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. 495. 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 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 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, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Coolroe Upper

Area

2,053,289 m² (205.33 ha, 507.38 acres)

Civil parish

Glanbehy, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Glanbehy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,269 people lived in 465 households in the Glanbehy electoral division. 76% of households owned 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, Ballynakilly Upper, Coolroe Lower, Coomavoon, Gortdirragh, Gowlane

Placenames

Coolroe 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.