Coom

136 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coom, from 37 m² to 491,696 m² (49.17 ha, 121.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 63 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.

• 5 Aug 2026N/a

  permission to (i) Demolish existing hay barn & adjacent lean-to (ii) Construct in their place new slatted unit. Proposed slatted unit to incorporate easy feed, cubicles, calving pens & associated underground slatted slurry tank with external agitation (iii) Construct a new calf shed. The above to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660733

• 29 Sept 2025Conditional

  Permission for the following works, 1) Demolish existing garage, 2) Construct 3 nr dwelling houses complete with site services, landscaping and boundaries (3) Construct new vehicular entrance to serve existing dwellinghouse, all in accordance with the plans and particulars submitted

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560879

• 25 Apr 2025Conditional

  (A) retention permission to retain second playing field as constructed and (B) planning permission to erect floodlights for the pitch at Coom, Gneeveguilla, Rathmore, Co Kerry

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560342

• 27 May 2024Conditional

  planning permission to construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage served by mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460328

• 24 Aug 2023Refused

  (A) TO RETAIN SECOND PLAYING FIELD AS CONSTRUCTED AND (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO ERECT FLOODLIGHTS FOR THE PITCH

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 23932

• 5 Apr 2023Conditional

  (A) DEMOLISH EXISTING DISUSED DWELLING HOUSE AND DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, AND (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23367

• 13 Jan 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING WITH SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2316

• 16 Mar 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE SERVED BY MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22302

• 14 Sept 2021Conditional

  CARRY OUT EXTERNAL WORKS TO MAIN CHURCH CONSISTING OF THE RELOCATION OF THE MAIN ALTAR AND AMBO AND EXTENDING/REVISING THE EXISTING ALTAR AREA . CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING CHURCH TO CONTAIN A NEW ENTRANCE PORCH AND TOILET, AND SERVICES AND AREAS. THIS IS A PROTECTED STURCTURE COUNCIL REF RPS KY-060-001

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 211045

• 20 Apr 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21422

• 20 Dec 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND SANDCEL POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191312

• 25 Jul 2019Conditional

  (A) BUILD EXTENSION ON TO EXISTING HOUSE (B) DEMOLISH EXISTING KITCHEN, BATHROOM AND GARAGE (C) INSTALL MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT,INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19794

• 19 Dec 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND POLSIHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 181252

• 21 Nov 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 181136

• 21 Jun 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE SERVED BY MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17581

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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• KE060-005 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In level pasture. A circular area (diam. 10m) defined by an internal fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.2m) and an external bank (Wth 1.3m; H 0.5m). The bank is best preserved N-E but cut by a drain at SE. There is a possible entrance gap (Wth 2m) at SSE. The overall dimensions of the ring-barrow are 28m E-W and 25m N-S. A central depression (D 0.6m) in the interior may be recent. The ring-barrow is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE060-045 Bridge
  Description

  A slightly humpback road bridge (Wth 5.6m; long axis NW-SE) spanning a tributary of the Blackwater. It is built of random rubble. The single segmental arch (span 3m) has rough voussoirs. The parapet walls have partly collapsed. 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 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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 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

3,864,226 m² (386.42 ha, 954.87 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Coom, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Coom electoral division: 2,109 people in 750 households; 88% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycullane, Bawnard, Cottage, Gneevgullia, Gortnaprocess, Islandearagh, Knocknageeha, Lisheen, Reanasup, Scrahanagullaun

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.