Cools

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cools, from 52 m² to 347,979 m² (34.8 ha, 85.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Cools 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.

• 27 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission to construct three no. polytunnels 480 sq.M each to East side of existing glasshouses at , Cools, Ballinskelligs, Co.Kerry.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660812

• 10 Sept 2024Refused

  Permission to Construct a Slatted Unit at Cools, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460676

• 24 Jan 2024Conditional

  Construction of two no. PVC Polytunnels 30M X 16m each to North side of existing glasshouse.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460034

• 15 Sept 2021Conditional

  ERECT DWELLING AND INSTALL MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT , INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211051

• 10 Jul 2019Conditional

  (1) THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION (C78SQ.M) TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (2) INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO THE EXISTING DWELLING, (3) DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND TO INSTALL A NEW PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING NECESSARY TO COMPLETE THE DEVELOPMENT (4) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITHIN ENLARGED SITE BOUNDARIES

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19721

• 28 Feb 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SLATTED ANIMAL HOUSE WITH UNDERGROUND TANK AND ASSOCIATED WORKS ON THEIR LANDS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 17168

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 Cools.

Recorded monuments

• KE088-030 Standing stone
  Description

  This low squat stone stands on the lower SE slopes of Knocknaskereighta. It reaches a maximum height of 1.1m, and has average basal dimensions of 1m x .2m; E-W. The top of the stone appears to have broken off. 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. 152. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE088-053 Souterrain
  Description

  This inaccessible souterrain, not marked on the OS maps, is situated on the fairly steep slopes of Knocknaskereighta mountain overlooking Ballinskelligs Bay to S. Its entrance was blocked in the early 1960s and the souterrain is described locally as being of drystone construction. 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. 867. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE088-054 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Not marked on the OS maps, this site is known locally as a ceallúnach. It is located in pasture and overlooks the Emlaghmore river valley and Ballinskelligs Bay to SE. It is bisected by a N-S field boundary and no apparent remains are preserved on its W side. The enclosmg bank E of the boundary is drystone faced internally and externally, averages 1.3m wide and stands to a maximum external height of .5m. The extant portion of the site has an internal diameter of 16.5m N-S and contains an area, 12m N-S x 7m E-W, of neatly arranged rows of upright slabs. A low L-shaped bank, 6.4m long, occurs immediately W of this area and may represent part of the foundations of a building. A souterrain is located on the W side of the field boundary, just S of the probable limits of the enclosure. Its S facing lintelled ope measures .65m x .25m and gives access to a lintelled passage with sides of earth which extends to N. Access to the souterrain was not possible. 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. 989. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE088-054001 Souterrain
  Description

  Not marked on the OS maps, this site is known locally as a ceallúnach. It is located in pasture and overlooks the Emlaghmore river valley and Ballinskelligs Bay to SE. It is bisected by a N-S field boundary and no apparent remains are preserved on its W side. The enclosmg bank E of the boundary is drystone faced internally and externally, averages 1.3m wide and stands to a maximum external height of .5m. The extant portion of the site has an internal diameter of 16.5m N-S and contains an area, 12m N-S x 7m E-W, of neatly arranged rows of upright slabs. A low L-shaped bank, 6.4m long, occurs immediately W of this area and may represent part of the foundations of a building. A souterrain is located on the W side of the field boundary, just S of the probable limits of the enclosure. Its S facing lintelled ope measures .65m x .25m and gives access to a lintelled passage with sides of earth which extends to N. Access to the souterrain was not possible. 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. 989. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE088-054002 Building
  Description

  Not marked on the OS maps, this site is known locally as a ceallúnach. It is located in pasture and overlooks the Emlaghmore river valley and Ballinskelligs Bay to SE. It is bisected by a N-S field boundary and no apparent remains are preserved on its W side. The enclosmg bank E of the boundary is drystone faced internally and externally, averages 1.3m wide and stands to a maximum external height of .5m. The extant portion of the site has an internal diameter of 16.5m N-S and contains an area, 12m N-S x 7m E-W, of neatly arranged rows of upright slabs. A low L-shaped bank, 6.4m long, occurs immediately W of this area and may represent part of the foundations of a building. 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. 989. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE088-054003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Not marked on the OS maps, this site is known locally as a ceallúnach. It is located in pasture and overlooks the Emlaghmore river valley and Ballinskelligs Bay to SE. It is bisected by a N-S field boundary and no apparent remains are preserved on its W side. The enclosmg bank E of the boundary is drystone faced internally and externally, averages 1.3m wide and stands to a maximum external height of .5m. The extant portion of the site has an internal diameter of 16.5m N-S and contains an area, 12m N-S x 7m E-W, of neatly arranged rows of upright slabs. A low L-shaped bank, 6.4m long, occurs immediately W of this area and may represent part of the foundations of a building. A souterrain is located on the W side of the field boundary, just S of the probable limits of the enclosure. Its S facing lintelled ope measures .65m x .25m and gives access to a lintelled passage with sides of earth which extends to N. Access to the souterrain was not possible. 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. 989. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Cools, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cools · Na Cúla

Area

2,984,567 m² (298.46 ha, 737.5 acres)

Civil parish

Prior, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Ballinskelligs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

419 people lived in 172 households in the Ballinskelligs electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 55% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghort, Cloghaneanua, Curraghnanav, Fermoyle, Killabuonia, Killurly, Reennacoola, Sussa

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Cools 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.