Cummeenboy

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cummeenboy, from 244 m² to 1,059,969 m² (106 ha, 261.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Cummeenboy 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 Cummeenboy 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
• Special Protection Area: Killarney National Park SPA 004038
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE084-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, at the summit of a low hill, on the E side of the valley of the Cummeenboy stream. A roughly circular area (38m E-W; 34m N-S) defined by an earthen bank and an external fosse. The bank (Wth 4.15m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 2.1m) is visible WSW-E. A scarp occurs E-WSW where the remainder of the bank has been removed to accommodate farm roads at SW and SE. There are several small cattle-breaks through the bank. A fosse (Wth 1.3m), which is visible WSW-E, widens (Wth 1.8m) towards the NE. The interior is raised above the external ground level. There is a souterrain (KE084-020001-) in the centre of the interior. 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

• KE084-020001 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (KE084-020----). According to local information, a concave depression (Wth 1m; D 0.4m) in the centre of the rath marks the closed-up entrance to a souterrain. The landowner described stone steps leading down to an earth-cut passage, roofed with stone slabs and extending in an E-W direction. 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

• KE084-038 Hut site
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on a W-facing slope, overlooking the valley of Cummeenboy stream. The remains of a subcircular hut site (3.6m E-W; 2.8m N-S) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.5m; H 0.6m). The wall is best preserved NE-S but less so S-W where only a few stones are visible. Some of these stones are grassed over. The S portion of the hut site is sheltered by a rock escarpment. 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

• KE084-063 Hut site
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on the terrace of a gentle S-facing slope. The remains of a rectangular hut site (4.5m N-S; 3.2m E-W) defined by a collapsed, grass-covered drystone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.2m). 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

Architectural heritage

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

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, 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 Cummeenboy.

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

Name

Cummeenboy · An Coimín Buí

Area

3,082,016 m² (308.2 ha, 761.58 acres)

Civil parish

Kenmare, and its townlands

Barony

Glanarought

Electoral division

Cappagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cappagh electoral division: 404 people in 149 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derreenacahill, Gortnaboul Lower, Gortnaboul Upper, Inchimore, Istalea Lower, Tullig, Ullauns

Placenames

Cummeenboy 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.