Coomastow

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coomastow, from 176 m² to 460,140 m² (46.01 ha, 113.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Coomastow 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.

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

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 Coomastow.

Recorded monuments

• KE080-055 Hut site
  Description

  In rocky mountain terrain on the S slopes of Knockavohaun. Ruined foundations of an oval-shaped hut (KE080-055----). Inner basal row of upright slabs have mostly collapsed. D: 2.4m x 1.6m. Upslope to N, the drystone foundations of a large subcircular hut. D: 8.1m x 7.9m. 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. 1210. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE080-055001 Hut site
  Description

  In rocky mountain terrain on the S slopes of Knockavohaun. Ruined foundations of an oval-shaped hut (KE080-055----). Inner basal row of upright slabs have mostly collapsed. D: 2.4m x 1.6m. Upslope to N, the drystone foundations of a large subcircular hut KE080-055001-. D: 8.1m x 7.9m. 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. 1210. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE080-056 Hut site
  Description

  Downslope from KE080-055----, a roughly square corbelled hut with an entrance at SE. Two lintelled wall-niches in the interior at N. D: 2.9m x 2.5m. H: 1.35m. T: 1.2m. Adjacent at SE, a lintelled chamber, probably a lamb shelter. A sheepfold nearby to E. 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. 1211. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE080-058 Hut site
  Description

  In rough pasture on the S slopes of Rehill. Remnants of an earlier structure lie beneath a modern sheepfold. 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. 1212. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Coomastow.

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

Name

Coomastow · Com Dhá Stogha

Area

2,848,457 m² (284.85 ha, 703.87 acres)

Civil parish

Dromod, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Canuig, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Canuig, Derrymore, Dromaragh, Maulin, Rehill, Tooreenmore

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Coomastow 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.