Mountcoal

73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountcoal, from 107 m² to 223,759 m² (22.38 ha, 55.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Mountcoal 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.

• 20 Feb 2026N/a

  Planning Permission to (A) renovate and extend existing single storey dwelling house, (B) carry out all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660128

• 4 Apr 2025Conditional

  Planning permission to construct a new dwelling house served by septic tank and percolation area at Mountcoal, Listowel, Co Kerry

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560256

• 21 Jun 2023Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT AN ALL-WEATHER PLAYING SURFACE, (B) ERECT PERIMETER FENCING AND HIGH BALL NETTING, (C) ERECT FLOOD LIGHTING FOR PLAYING PITCH, (D) CONSTRUCT A WALKWAY, (E) ERECT WALKWAY LIGHING, (F) INSTALL PREFABRICATED CONTAINERS WITH STORE, OFFICE, DRESSING ROOMS AND TOILETS, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 23705

• 23 Sept 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT (1) A MACHINERY HOUSE AND ANCILLARY CONCRETE YARD, COMPLETE WITH UNDERGROUND TANK FOR COLLECTION OF ANY OIL SPILLAGE ETC; 2 (A) COMBINATION OF A ROOFED SLATTED EASY FEED HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANK AND CHANNEL THERE-FROM TO AN UNROOFED SLURRY TANK, AND (B) A STORAGE SHED FOR STRW/HAY ETC AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORK

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 211084

• 9 Jun 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN EASY FEED SLATTED SHED FOR CATTLE, INCORPORATING THE RE-CONSTRUCTION AND ROOFING OF OLD CUBICLE HOUSE ON THE SAME SITE, A MACHINERY SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 20486

• 23 Oct 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT UNIVERSAL ACCESS PARKING FACILITIES ALONG WITH STUDENT SET DOWN AREAS TO ENABLE UNIVERSAL ACCESS AND TO CHANGE THE LOCATION OF EXISTING FLAG POLES AT THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS TO THE EXISTING NATIONAL SCHOOL

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 191091

• 4 Mar 2019Conditional

  EXTENSION TO REAR OF HOUSE TO INCLUDE GRANNY APARTMENT, AND ADDITION OF WINDOW TO GABLE OF EXISTING HOUSE, DECOMMISSION AND REMOVE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND REPLACE WITH TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19206

• 5 Nov 2018Conditional

  INSTALL A TEMPORARY PREFABRICATED STRUCTURE FOR USE AS A CRECHE (PRESCHOOL) AND INSTALL AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 181078

• 18 May 2018Refused

  INSTALL A PREFABRICATED BUILDING AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS FOR USE AS A PRESCHOOL AT ST SEAN'S GAA GROUNDS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 18467

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  (1) RETAIN THE CORSERVATORY, PORCH AND ATTIC STORAGE TO HER HOUSE (2) RETAIN A DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 171297

• 17 Oct 2017N/a

  (1) RETAIN THE CONSERVATORY, PORCH AND ATTIC STORAGE TO HOUSE (2) RETAIN DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 171032

• 17 Feb 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, TO REPLACE EXISTING SEPTIC TANKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 17138

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

• KE016-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Lisnafirmagh/Lios na Feirmeac (ringfort of the farm). This circular enclosure is marked on the 1841-42 and 1914-15 OS maps and it shows up as a crop mark on the Geological Survey of Ireland's aerial photographs (1974). No surface trace survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 647. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE016-054 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Slight traces of a possible enclosure appear to be marked on the 1914-15 OS map. It is not marked on the earlier edition, and no visible trace survives. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1070. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE016-055 Enclosure
  Description

  Internal diameter 24m N-S, 32m E-W This site is situated on top of a hill, with excellent views in all directions. About 5m E of this site lies a quarry. The W side is cut by a fieldbank running in a NE-SW direction. This univallate rath has been much levelled and distorted. All that remains today is a sub-oval raised area which is on average 2.2m above the external ground level. To the SW an enclosing bank can be identified for c 14m; it is c 9m wide and .6m high. The interior is sloping SE. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 648. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE016-056 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 24m N-S, 22m E-W This univallate rath is situated SW of KE016-055---- in the same field. It consists of a sub-circular area enclosed by a low, wide earthen bank. It is 6m wide and rises to .6m-1m externally and to .3m-1m internally. A 6.4m wide gap exists to the NE. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 649. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE016-060 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This circular enclosure lies SE of KE016-056----. It is marked on the 1841-42 and 1914-15 OS maps, and also shows up on the Geological Survey of Ireland's aerial photographs (1974). No surface trace survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 650. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Mountcoal, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mountcoal.

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.

No address of the register names Mountcoal with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Mountcoal · Cnoc an Ghuail

Area

2,409,507 m² (240.95 ha, 595.4 acres)

Civil parish

Kilshenane, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Rathea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

423 people lived in 166 households in the Rathea electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dromclogh, Irramore, Kilshenane, Knockreagh, Rathea, Toornageehy

Placenames

Mountcoal 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.