Kilcoman
Kilcoman is a townland in the civil parish of Caher, barony of Iveragh, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Cill Chomáin.
- Area
- 204.6 ha
- 505 acres
- Land parcels
- 58
- registered freehold, median 16,261 m² (1.63 ha, 4.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcoman, from 355 m² to 337,118 m² (33.71 ha, 83.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilcoman 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Mar 2024Conditional
TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE GABLE OF THEIR EXISTING DWELLING AND PERMISSION TO INSTALL A TRICELL P6 WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A SAND POLISHING FILTER ON A RAISED BED, DECOMMISSION OF EXITING SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AT THEIR PROPERTY
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2499
28 Apr 2023Conditional
DEMOLISH AN EXISTING LEAN TO SHED STRUCTURE LOCATED TO THE SOUTH GABLE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND THE SUBSEQENT EXTENSION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING TO THE SAME SOUTH GABLE TO INCLUDE A NEW LEAN-TO STRUCTURE WITH A MINOR INCREASE TO THE FOOTPRINT AND THE INTRODUCTION OF NEW WINDOWS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23468
20 Dec 2019Conditional
(A) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN SUNROOM, UTILITY, AND LOBBY EXTENSIONS ONTO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (B) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN 3 NO. SHEDS (C) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL SHEDS WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention · Kerry County Council, 191327
19 Mar 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DEMESTIC SHED SERVED BY ONSITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19265
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilcoman.
Recorded monuments
- KE088-003 Ringfort - cashel
Description
The first edition of the OS map shows a circular enclosure at this location. No surface trace remains of the site, but it is remembered locally as a 'fort' from which stones were removed for building roads in the 1950s. A possible souterrain (KE088-003001-) is associated with the site. It was located in pasture with a broad view across low-lying land to W. 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. 677. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013
- KE088-003001 Souterrain
Description
A possible souterrain (KE088-003001-) is associated with the site. It was located in pasture with a broad view across low-lying land to W. 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. 677. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013
- KE088-004 Standing stone
Description
This standing stone, not marked on the OS maps, is situated on level land W of Aghatubrid mountain. Of tapered elevation, it stands 1.27m high and measures .32m thick at base; E-W. Its E side is incorporated into a modern N-S field boundary. 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. 190. 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 Kilcoman.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Kilcoman, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilcoman.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilcoman with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcoman · Cill Chomáin
- Area
- 2,045,588 m² (204.56 ha, 505.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Caher, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iveragh
- Electoral division
- Caher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,061 people lived in 819 households in the Caher electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghatubrid, Boola, Derreen, Laharan South
- Placenames
- Kilcoman 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.