Coomshanna

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coomshanna, from 2,957 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres) to 1,280,125 m² (128.01 ha, 316.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Coomshanna 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 Coomshanna 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

• 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

• KE070-081001 Hut site
  Description

  In bog, in a coniferous wood on the N-facing slopes of Been Hill. The northernmost of three hut sites (see KE070-081002-, KE070-081003-) which are situated on a N-S axis. The remains of a circular hut site (5.2m N-S; 5.1m E-W) defined by a moss-covered collapsed stone wall (T 0.75m; H 0.5m) which protrudes above the surface of the bog. The entrance (Wth 0.6m) at W is defined by upright stone slabs at S (H 0.8m) and N (H 0.6m). Trees are growing within and around the hut site. A second hut site (KE070-081002-) is c. 2m to the S. 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

• KE070-081002 Hut site
  Description

  In bog, in a coniferous wood on the N-facing slopes of Been Hill. The central one of three hut sites (see KE070-081001-, KE070-081003-) which are situated on a N-S axis. The remains of a circular hut site (diam. 2.3m), defined by a moss-covered, collapsed stone wall (T 0.75m; H 0.4m), which protrude above the surface of the bog. The level interior is obscured by wood debris. Trees are growing within and around the hut site. The two other hut sites (KE070-081001-, KE070-081003-) are c. 2m to the N and c. 1m to the S, respectively. 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

• KE070-081003 Hut site
  Description

  In bog, in a coniferous wood on the N-facing slopes of Been Hill. The southernmost of three hut sites (see KE070-081001-, KE070-081002-) which are situated on a N-S axis. The remains of a circular hut site (diam. 2m), defined by the moss-covered arc (S-NE) of a collapsed stone wall (T 0.8m; H 0.6m), which protrudes above the surface of the bog. The level interior is obscured by wood debris. Trees are growing within and around the hut site. Another hut site (KE070-081002-) is c. 1m to the N. 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

• KE070-140 Rock art
  Description

  In rocky upland pasture, the smooth but weathered upper surface of a low-lying sub-triangular earthfast boulder (having an area of approximately 3m sq) is inscribed with faintly visible rock art motifs which include two variants on the cup-and-ring motif, an oval shaped depression as well as picked lines. Low drystone walls and a cluster of ten+ closely-set hut sites in various stages of collapse and having a variety of morphologies are found in the vicinity of the decorated panel. Compiled by: Aoibheann Lambe Date of upload/revision: 13 May 2019

• KE071-062 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  This cairn is located on the NW edge of the level summit of Beenmore mountain, from where there are spectacular views over Dingle Bay to N, and along the valleys of the Behy and Ferta rivers to E and W respectively. Subcircular in plan, it measures 3.45m NE-SW x 3.9m NW-SE and is 1.25m in maximum height. It is composed of a loose jumble of slabs and a small amount of quartz. 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. 384. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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 Coomshanna.

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

Name

Coomshanna · Com Seanaigh

Area

4,154,462 m² (415.45 ha, 1,026.59 acres)

Civil parish

Killinane, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Killinane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killinane electoral division: 298 people in 121 households; 94% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappamore, Gleensk, Gortnagulla, Knockaneyouloo, Letter West

Placenames

Coomshanna 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.