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

Townland in the civil parish of Garfinny, barony of Corkaguiny, Co. Kerry; in Irish Com an Bhúlaeraigh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,729,698 m² (172.97 ha, 427.42 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,118 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Garfinny, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/garfinny.md
- Barony: Corkaguiny
- Electoral division: Glinn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Glinn electoral division: 1,806 people in 654 households; 77% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% 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/22640
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 70889
- Centre: latitude 52.1679, longitude -10.23878 (WGS 84)

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

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coumbowler, from 1,999 m² to 876,146 m² (87.61 ha, 216.5 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1219951: 876,146 m² (87.61 ha, 216.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1219951.md
- Parcel 1223066: 815,562 m² (81.56 ha, 201.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1223066.md
- Parcel 1240575: 21,743 m² (2.17 ha, 5.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1240575.md
- Parcel 1193273: 4,118 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1193273.md
- Parcel 3011390: 2,624 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3011390.md
- Parcel 1202445: 2,146 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1202445.md
- Parcel 1197484: 1,999 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1197484.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Coumbowler 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 Coumbowler 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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mount Brandon, site code 000375

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

- KE043-096: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE043-096----. Very ruined remains of a circular hut (2nd edition, OS map). D: estimated 3m. H: .75m. T: 1.2m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1193. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013
- KE043-097: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE043-097----. On a very steep mountain slope. Two roughly circular structures set 12m apart. (1) (KE043-097----) Of corbelled drystone construction. D: 3.1m. H: 1.6m. T: 1.45m. (2) (KE043-097001-) No corbelling evident. D: 2.3 to 2.5m. H: 2.15m. T: 1.2 to 1.8m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1194. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013
- KE043-097001: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE043-097001-. On a very steep mountain slope. Two roughly circular structures set 12m apart. (2) (KE043-097001-) No corbelling evident. D: 2.3 to 2.5m. H: 2.15m. T: 1.2 to 1.8m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1194. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013
- KE043-098: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE043-098----. On a very steep mountain slope overlooking the Conor Pass and the Garfinny valley. An oval corbelled drystone structure. D: 2.75 to 3.5m. H: 1.7m. T: 1.2 to 1.35m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1203. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013
- KE043-099: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE043-099----. On a very steep mountain slope. A circular corbelled drystone hut. D: 3.5m. H: 1.9m. T: 1.25 to 1.95m. About 12m further downhill is a small circular corbelled structure, probably a sheep-shelter. D: 1.8m. H: 1.6m. T: .7m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1195. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013
- KE043-100: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE043-100----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- KE043-102: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE043-102----. On a small grassy terrace, on the steep scree-strewn SE slopes of Beennabrack mountain. A circular drystone foundation, modified for use as a sheep-pen. D: c. 4m. H: 1m. T: c. 1.5m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1198. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013
- KE043-103: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE043-103----. On a small grassy terrace on the steep S slopes of Ballysitteragh mountain. A circular drystone structure. D: c. 4m. H: 1.7m. T: c. 2m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1197. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013
- KE043-104: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE043-104----. In rough wet pasture on the W side of the Garfinny valley. A circular corbelled drystone hut. D: 3.8m. H: 1.95m. T: 1.15 to 1.55m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1202. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013
- KE043-105: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE043-105----. On a small grassy terrace, on the W side of the Garfinny valley. A circular drystone-built hut, with a defaced entrance gap at ESE and a small wall-cupboard in the interior. D: 3.6m. H: 1.3m. T: 1.4m. A low lintelled passage through the wall at S leads into a crudely-built subcircular structure, which has a small pen, 1.8m in diameter, abutting its E side. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1196. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013
- KE043-106: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE043-106----. On a small grassy terrace, on the steep scree-strewn W slopes of the Garfinny valley. Very ruined remains of a pair of conjoined circular drystone huts. NE hut KE043-106---- is of corbelled construction with a probable wall-cupboard in the interior. H: 1.6m. T: 1.2m. SW hut shows no trace of corbelling, and also has a small wall-cupboard. D: 3.7m. H: 2m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1199. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013
- KE043-106001: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE043-106001-. On a small grassy terrace, on the steep scree-strewn W slopes of the Garfinny valley. Very ruined remains of a pair of conjoined circular drystone huts. NE hut KE043-106---- is of corbelled construction with a probable wall-cupboard in the interior. SW hut KE043-106001- shows no trace of corbelling, and also has a small wall-cupboard. D: 3.7m. H: 2m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1199. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013
- KE043-165: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE043-165----. On a small terrace on the steep, rocky E slopes of Ballysitteragh mountain. A pair of roughly circular conjoined drystone huts KE043-165---- & KE043-165001-, with entrances at SE but no communicating passage, located at the E side of a small disused field. D: 5.7 x 4.95m and 4.8m. H: 1.75m. T: 1.55 to 1.74m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1201. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013
- KE043-165001: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE043-165001-. On a small terrace on the steep, rocky E slopes of Ballysitteragh mountain. A pair of roughly circular conjoined drystone huts KE043-165---- & KE043-165001-, with entrances at SE but no communicating passage, located at the E side of a small disused field. D: 5.7 x 4.95m and 4.8m. H: 1.75m. T: 1.55 to 1.74m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1201. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013
- KE043-166: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE043-166----. Internal diam. 19.4m N-S, 18.15m E-W This site is situated in the pass between Knockmoylemore and Sugarloaf, about 100m W of a ford across the Garfinny river. It consists of a circular, stone-walled enclosure with a large clochaun centrally positioned in the interior. The enclosure wall is an average of 1.8m wide and 1.7m high, but the NE sector has been replaced with a modern wall, now partly collapsed. The entrance gap at ESE is spanned by an iron gate. The circular clochaun measures 5.2m in diameter internally and the slightly corbelled wall stands to a maximum height of 1.95m. The external face is stepped. The lower step consists of a grass-grown plinth of earth and stones measuring .75 to 1.2m in width and up to 1.15m in height. The clochaun wall rises a maximum of .8m above this and is 1 to 1.2m wide. There is a small niche at ground level in the inner wall-face at SW. It measures .25m high, .45m wide and .7m deep. The entrance to the clochaun faced SE but the wall in this sector has been broken away and the debris now forms a large platform of earth and stone in front of the entrance area. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 556. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013
- KE043-166001: Clochan, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE043-166001-. KE043-166---- is situated in the pass between Knockmoylemore and Sugarloaf, about 100m W of a ford across the Garfinny river. It consists of a circular, stone-walled enclosure with a large clochaun centrally positioned in the interior. The circular clochaun measures 5.2m in diameter internally and the slightly corbelled wall stands to a maximum height of 1.95m. The external face is stepped. The lower step consists of a grass-grown plinth of earth and stones measuring .75 to 1.2m in width and up to 1.15m in height. The clochaun wall rises a maximum of .8m above this and is 1 to 1.2m wide. There is a small niche at ground level in the inner wall-face at SW. It measures .25m high, .45m wide and .7m deep. The entrance to the clochaun faced SE but the wall in this sector has been broken away and the debris now forms a large platform of earth and stone in front of the entrance area. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 556. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013
- KE043-175: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE043-175----. On the E slopes of the valley that extends NE from Dingle Town. A possible hut site now represented by a sub-circular area, 3.21m in diameter, enclosed by a bank of earth and stones, up to 1.1m high and c. 1.65m wide. There is an entrance gap in the E sector, and a large mound of stones outside this may be a field clearance dump. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1200. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013
- KE043-255: Anomalous stone group, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE043-255----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

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 Coumbowler.

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

- Radon: 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: Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_17, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_17.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/coumbowler.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/coumbowler.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/coumbowler.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Coumbowler 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)

- Ballinasig: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballinasig.md
- Ballybowler North: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballybowler-north.md
- Ballybowler South: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballybowler-south.md
- Commons of Dingle: https://everytownland.com/kerry/commons-of-dingle.md
- Garfinny: https://everytownland.com/kerry/garfinny.md
- Mullaghveal: https://everytownland.com/kerry/mullaghveal.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/coumbowler
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/coumbowler