Coomavoher

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coomavoher, from 72 m² to 2,366,598 m² (236.66 ha, 584.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Coomavoher 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 Jun 2025Conditional

  planning permission to integrate existing garage into existing farmhouse dwelling with new flat roof over. Permission is also sought to extend new bedroom, new glazed extension to rear, and to develop detached ancillary sauna/studio structure in place of existing stone cabin. Permission to decommission the existing septic tank and to install a new upgraded wastewater treatment system.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560552

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE090-028 Hut site
  Description

  Located in rough wet pasture a short distance NE of Derriana Lough. Foundations of a subcircular hut defined by a basal row of large irregular boulders. D: 2.7m x 2.3m. H: .7m. T: .7m. 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. 1213. 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 Coomavoher.

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, moderately low (inferred), low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Coomavoher · Com an Bhóthair

Area

5,963,854 m² (596.39 ha, 1,473.7 acres)

Civil parish

Dromod, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Derriana, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Curravoola, Derreen, Derriana, Derrynagree, Dromnakilly, Dughile and Coomavanniha, Gloragh, Lissatinnig

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Coomavoher 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.