Coolroe West

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolroe West, from 212 m² to 154,265 m² (15.43 ha, 38.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 West 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.

• 5 Mar 2025Conditional

  PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE SERVED BY SEPTIC TANK & PERCOLATION AREA AT COOLROE WEST, FAHA, KILLARNEY, CO. KERRY (1 dwelling)

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2560147

• 19 May 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW SLATTED LIVESTOCK HOUSE. PROPOSED SLATTED HOUSE TO INCORPORATE CALVING AREA, CRUSH, EASY FEED, CUBLICLES, SCRAPER AND SLATTED TANK WITH 3 EXTERNAL AGITION POINTS. THE ABOVE TO INCLUDE ANCILLARY CONCRETE AND TO BE CARRIED OUT WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 20441

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 West.

Recorded monuments

• KE058-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, towards the top of a low hillock, in undulating pasture. A circular area (25m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.55m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 0.8m) WNW-SSE and by a scarp SSE-WNW. Stone facing is evident along the external face of the bank at SE. The interior is almost level and is slightly higher than the external ground level. There is a possible entrance (Wth c. 1.5m) at ENE and cattle gaps at NE and SSE. The W half of the interior and the bank S-N are covered in overgrowth. Field boundaries radiate from the bank externally at W and ENE. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, 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 West.

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 Coolroe West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Coolroe West

Area

448,952 m² (44.9 ha, 110.94 acres)

Civil parish

Aglish, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Aglish, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aglish electoral division: 520 people in 183 households; 85% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballytrasna, Coolroe East, Doonkinane, Flintfield, Laharan

Placenames

Coolroe West 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.