Coom

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coom, from 56 m² to 259,524 m² (25.95 ha, 64.13 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 Coom 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.

• 29 Aug 2025Conditional

  Full planning permission to A), demolish existing derelict structure, B) construct a new replicate structure on existing footprint to be used as a domestic store / ancillary use for the existing dwelling house and all associated site works.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560761

• 19 May 2023Conditional

  (A) DEMOLISH REAR EXTENSION, (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW SIDE, FRONT AND REAR EXTENSION ONTO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (C) ELEVATION CHANGES AND INTERNAL ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23578

• 11 May 2022Conditional

  REPLACE SEPTIC TANK WITH AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND POLISHING FILTER AND TO RESTORE OLD RUIN TO USE AS A DOMESIC STORE

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22487

• 8 Apr 2019Refused

  (A) DEVELOP SIDE AND REAR EXTENSIONS(B) FIT ZINC CLADDING OVER EXISTING CONCRETE ENTRANCE PORCH ROOF AND (C) FIT MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER UPGRADE AT TWO-STOREY DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19354

• 8 Mar 2019N/a

  (A) DEVELOP SIDE AND REAR EXTENSIONS (B) FIT ZINC CLADDING OVER EXISTING CONCRETE ENTRANCE PORCH ROOF AND (C) FIT MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT , INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER UPGRADE OF TWO STOREY DWELLING

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 19218

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 Coom.

Recorded monuments

• KE097-015 Hut site
  Description

  On a slight terrace with extensive views W, overlooking St Finan's Bay, and E, overlooking Ballinskelligs Bay. A pair of poorly preserved and overgrown conjoined huts of roughly square plan. Some upright slabs form the base of the inner wall-face of the N hut (KE097-015----). D: 2.3m. H: .9m. An L-shaped drystone-built souterrain (KE097-015001-) opens off its W side. The lintelled opening is .3m high and .55m wide. The passage extends W for 1.6m then turns through a low creepway to S, where collapse impedes further progress. The S hut is poorly defined, its interior infilled with boulders. D: 3.7m x 3m. This may be the site Lynch noted as 'Gortnacaha' (1902b, 321). 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. 1209. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE097-015001 Souterrain
  Description

  On a slight terrace with extensive views W, overlooking St Finan's Bay, and E, overlooking Ballinskelligs Bay. A pair of poorly preserved and overgrown conjoined huts of roughly square plan. Some upright slabs form the base of the inner wall-face of the N hut (KE097-015----). D: 2.3m. H: .9m. An L-shaped drystone-built souterrain (KE097-015001-) opens off its W side. The lintelled opening is .3m high and .55m wide. The passage extends W for 1.6m then turns through a low creepway to S, where collapse impedes further progress. 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. 1209. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE097-015002 Hut site
  Description

  On a slight terrace with extensive views W, overlooking St Finan's Bay, and E, overlooking Ballinskelligs Bay. A pair of poorly preserved and overgrown conjoined huts of roughly square plan. Some upright slabs form the base of the inner wall-face of the N hut (KE097-015----). D: 2.3m. H: .9m. The S hut (KE097-015002-) is poorly defined, its interior infilled with boulders. D: 3.7m x 3m. This may be the site Lynch noted as 'Gortnacaha' (1902b, 321). 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. 1209. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE097-021 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  This monument is located in reclaimed bogland near the head of a valley that opens E to Ballinskelligs Bay. The gallery, aligned NE-SW, consists of a wedge-shaped chamber, covered by a single roof-stone, and a parallel-sided portico to W. Excavation revealed the scant remains of a trapezoidal cairn, 12m long and narrowing from 10m wide at W to c. 2m at E, which was revetted by a row of small upright stones. The cairn had been largely removed before the commencement of peat growth. A flint flake with secondary working along one edge was found beneath it, but no definite evidence of burial was found in the chamber (Herity 1966, 67). The main chamber is 2.85m long and tapers sharply from a width of 1.45m at W to .4m at E. The chamber is closed at E by one slab, set outside the ends of the side-walls. Each side-wall consists of one long and one short stone. A blocking stone divides the portico from the main chamber. The roof-stone, 3.2m long, rests on the side-stones in an inclined position. Excavation showed that the portico consisted of three stones on either side; originally it may have been roofed by a slab resting in an inclined position with its lower end on the chamber roof-stone. The portico measures 2.3m long and 1.45m wide. The overall internal length of the gallery is 5.45m (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1982, 65). To see a 3D model of this monument visit: https://skfb.ly/67FLD 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. 76. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume IV. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982) Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE097-022 Standing stone
  Description

  Not marked on the OS maps, this standing stone is situated in rough pasture that overlooks low-lying land towards Ballinskelligs Bay at SE. It is a low orthostat, weathered and fissured. It stands 1.06m high and measures .62m wide and .16m thick at base; NNW-SSE. One packing stone is visible on its NW side. 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. 153. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE097-023 Field boundary
  Description

  In pasture, on S-sloping reclaimed bog with views S to Canuig Mountain. Herity (1970a, 8, 11-14) recorded 'field walls partially exposed by fairly recent turf cutting three hundred yards [274m] east of tomb [wedge tomb (KE097-021----)]'. These possible field boundaries are not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Coom.

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

Name

Coom · An Com

Area

1,050,323 m² (105.03 ha, 259.54 acres)

Civil parish

Prior, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Ballinskelligs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinskelligs, Killonecaha, Killurly, Kinard West, Leabaleaha, Tooreen

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Coom 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.