# Coomanaspig, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killemlagh, barony of Iveragh, Co. Kerry.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,080,625 m² (108.06 ha, 267.03 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 110,218 m² (11.02 ha, 27.24 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killemlagh, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/killemlagh.md
- Barony: Iveragh
- Electoral division: Portmagee, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 365 people lived in 151 households in the Portmagee electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 31% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md
- Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/22376
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 70839
- Centre: latitude 51.860244, longitude -10.376009 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coomanaspig, from 1,683 m² to 859,549 m² (85.95 ha, 212.4 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1202113: 859,549 m² (85.95 ha, 212.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1202113.md
- Parcel 1225826: 112,335 m² (11.23 ha, 27.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1225826.md
- Parcel 1240939: 108,100 m² (10.81 ha, 26.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1240939.md
- Parcel 1203204: 1,683 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1203204.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Coomanaspig in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

No planning application touches the townland of Coomanaspig in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Protection Area: Iveragh Peninsula SPA, site code 004154, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004154
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Puffin Sound-Horse Island Cliffs, site code 001373

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- KE087-051: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE087-051----. This standing stone is located in bog on the lower N slopes of Coomanaspig, SE of Dromgour Point. It is not recorded on the OS maps. The stone is irregular in both elevation and basal plan, tapering as it rises. It measures .9m high, and .82m x .42m at base, tapering to a width of .36m at the top; NNW-SSE. Veins of quartz run horizontally through the stone. 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. 154. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013
- KE087-052001: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE087-052001-. Coomanaspig Well/Tobar Chúm an Easpaig: This well is located on the roadside on the N facing slope of Kilkeaveragh mountain. It is defined by two side slabs and a covering lintel, on the upper surface of which is a faintly incised linear cross. A short paved path leads to the well, with one of its slabs featuring a deeply incised cross. An upright slab in front of the well, measuring .6m x .35m, is similarly incised. The site is also known as St John's Well and is referred to by An Seabhac (1954, 28) as the Well of the Nine Bishops (Tobar na Naoi nEaspag). Rounds were formerly made here on the 29th September as part of the turas or pilgrimage which commenced at the pattern held at St Michael's Well, Dungeagan (KE097-029----), and which also involved visits to St Buonia's Well (KE088-027004-) and St Finan's Well (KE096-007----), both in The Glen (Delap 1911, 411). See attached colour photographs courtesy of Amanda Clarke. 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. 1062. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013
- KE087-052002: Cross-slab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE087-052002-. Coomanaspig Well/Tobar Chúm an Easpaig (KE087-052001-) is a well is located on the roadside on the N facing slope of Kilkeaveragh mountain. It is defined by two side slabs and a covering lintel (KE087-052002-), on the upper surface of which is a faintly incised linear cross. A short paved path leads to the well, with one of its slabs (KE087-052004-) featuring a deeply incised cross. An upright slab (KE087-052003-) in front of the well, measuring .6m x .35m, is similarly incised. 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. 1062. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013
- KE087-052003: Cross-slab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE087-052003-. Coomanaspig Well/Tobar Chúm an Easpaig (KE087-052001-) is a well is located on the roadside on the N facing slope of Kilkeaveragh mountain. It is defined by two side slabs and a covering lintel, on the upper surface of which is a faintly incised linear cross. A short paved path leads to the well, with one of its slabs (KE087-052004-) featuring a deeply incised cross. An upright slab (KE087-052003-) in front of the well, measuring .6m x .35m, is similarly incised. 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. 1062. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013
- KE087-052004: Cross-slab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE087-052004-. Coomanaspig Well/Tobar Chúm an Easpaig (KE087-052001-) is a well is located on the roadside on the N facing slope of Kilkeaveragh mountain. It is defined by two side slabs and a covering lintel, on the upper surface of which is a faintly incised linear cross. A short paved path leads to the well, with one of its slabs (KE087-052004-) featuring a deeply incised cross. An upright slab (KE087-052003-) in front of the well, measuring .6m x .35m, is similarly incised. 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. 1062. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013
- KE087-092: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE087-092----. In rough hill grazing close to the edge of a high W-facing cliff with views of Valencia Island and Sceilg Mhichíl. The remains of the lower, horizontally laid, courses of a stone wall (T 0.7m; H 0.2-0.7m) define the remains of a circular hut site (2.3m E-W; 2m N-S). The hut site has been cut (D 0.7m) into the upslope at E and reduces to ground level at W. There is a hut site (KE087-093----) c. 30m to the NE. 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
- KE087-093: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE087-093----. In rough hill grazing close to the edge of a high W-facing cliff with views of Valencia Island and Sceilg Mhichíl. A D-shaped hut site (3.2m N-S) with a straight S side (L 4.8m) defined by the vertical face of outcropping rock aligned E-W and elsewhere by a stone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.2-0.7m) displaying traces of an inner row of contiguous slabs, against which are the partially obscured remains of a collapsed stone wall. Two large parallel slabs at W appear to have broken off from the rock-face. A break (Wth 0.7m) beside the rock-face at E may have been the entrance. There is another hut site (KE087-092----) c. 30m to the SW. 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
- KE087-094001: Burial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE087-094001-. On top of a high cliff-edge in an area known locally as the 'Hermit's Garden'. According to local information, a monk is said to have been buried here but there are no visible remains of this burial. It is said locally that a cross-slab marked the grave but that it was moved in the 1900s to Killemlagh graveyard (KE096-009003-), c. 4km to the SE where it marks a family grave. This is probably the cross-inscribed stone (KE096-009002-) described by O'Sullivan and Sheehan (1996, 360) as covering a tomb. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Coomanaspig, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/coomanaspig.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/coomanaspig.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/coomanaspig.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Coomanaspig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballynabloun: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballynabloun.md
- Doory: https://everytownland.com/kerry/doory-71114.md
- Foilnageragh: https://everytownland.com/kerry/foilnageragh.md
- Lomanagh: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lomanagh-72162.md
- Moyrisk: https://everytownland.com/kerry/moyrisk.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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