# Coumanare, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballyduff, barony of Corkaguiny, Co. Kerry; in Irish Com an Áir. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,126,394 m² (312.64 ha, 772.55 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 3,126,002 m² (312.6 ha, 772.45 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballyduff, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/ballyduff.md - Barony: Corkaguiny - Electoral division: Ballyduff, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 136 people lived in 55 households in the Ballyduff electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 28% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% 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/22461 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 70888 - Centre: latitude 52.186822, longitude -10.162303 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Coumanare, from 3,126,002 m² (312.6 ha, 772.45 acres) to 3,126,002 m² (312.6 ha, 772.45 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1225450: 3,126,002 m² (312.6 ha, 772.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1225450.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Coumanare 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 Coumanare in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Mount Brandon SAC, site code 000375, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000375 - Special Protection Area: Dingle Peninsula SPA, site code 004153, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004153 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mount Brandon, site code 000375 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE044-128: Structure - peatland, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE044-128----. This site extends over several acres on the N side of the high mountain saddle between Slievanea and Croaghskearda, in an area of rapidly-eroding peat banks, up to 2m deep, with the stony surface of the mountain-top visible in-between. It is here that the well-known 'Coumanare arrows' are found embedded in the peat or lying loose on the ground where the peat has eroded away. The 'arrows' are short pieces of wood, .15 to .17m long and up to .02m thick, sharpened at one or both ends. The removal of several hundreds of these objects from the site is recorded in the archaeological literature (Hitchcock 1850, 140-1; Tempest 1938, 127-8) and many more have probably been removed without record. During a survey of the site by a group of students from the Department of Archaeology, UCC (Coumanare Expedition: Preliminary Report, 1970), some of the objects were recorded in situ where erosion had conveniently produced horizontal sections of the peat banks. They occurred mainly in groups, with a few occurring singly, and they did not appear to be disposed in any particular way; some stood vertically, others at various angles, and some lay horizontally. Only one was found protruding from a vertical section; the peat bank at this point was 1.02m deep and the 'arrow' occured .61m from the base. Tempest also found one in a vertical section, about .35m from the base of the peat bank. The UCC group also found many small slivers of wood which may have been produced in the course of sharpening the ends of the 'arrows'. The only other objects recovered from the site are a flint flake found lying loose on the surface of a peat bank during this present survey, and a large oak peg, pointed at one end and pierced by a hole at the other. The latter measured .38m in length and .025m in thickness (Tempest). The purpose of these pointed wooden objects remains a mystery. They are locally believed to be the arrows used in the battle between the champions of Ulster and Munster from which the townland is said to derive its name, Com an Áir (the Hollow of the Slaughter). This, however, is an unlikely explanation of their use. A more plausible suggestion is that they were set in the ground as a trap for deer. Pollen analysis of samples from the peat bog here indicate that one of the pointed sticks 'was embedded in peat which probably formed when the Middle Bronze Age of Ireland was giving way to the Late Bronze Age' (Mitchell 1951, 177-8). The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1560. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013 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 Coumanare. ## 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 Coumanare, about 1 in 20 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. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coumanare. - 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/coumanare.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/coumanare.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/coumanare.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Coumanare 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) - Ballingarraun: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballingarraun.md - Ballyhoneen: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballyhoneen.md - Banoge North: https://everytownland.com/kerry/banoge-north.md - Boherbrack: https://everytownland.com/kerry/boherbrack.md - Clogharee: https://everytownland.com/kerry/clogharee.md - Gowlane Beg: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gowlane-beg.md - Gowlane East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gowlane-east.md - Gowlaneard: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gowlaneard.md - Gowlin: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gowlin.md - Kilmore: https://everytownland.com/kerry/kilmore-71836.md - Lisdargan: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lisdargan.md - Loughadoon: https://everytownland.com/kerry/loughadoon.md - Puckisland: https://everytownland.com/kerry/puckisland.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/coumanare - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/coumanare