Reennacoola
Reennacoola is a townland in the civil parish of Prior, barony of Iveragh, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Ré na gCúl.
- Area
- 47.1 ha
- 116 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 470,872 m² (47.09 ha, 116.36 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Reennacoola, from 470,872 m² (47.09 ha, 116.36 acres) to 470,872 m² (47.09 ha, 116.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Reennacoola 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
20 Jun 2025Conditional
RETAIN (I) A PART ROOFED SIDE EXTENSION AND (II) A PART FLOOR GABLE WINDOW SERVING AN EXISTING DWELLING, ALL AS CONSTRCTED AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO (A) DEMOLISH A FRONT AND REAR SINGLE STOREY FLAT ROOF STRUCTURE SERVING THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (B) CONSTRUCT NEW SINGLE STOREY FLAT ROOF STRUCTURES TO REPLACE THE ABOVE, (C) EXTEND THE FIRST FLOOR AREA TO COVER THE ENTIRE FIRST FLOOR AREA, (D) ALLOW FOR 2 NUMBER ROOF LIGHTS SERVING ENSUITES ON THE FIRST FLOOR, AND (E) DECOMMISSION AND REMOVE AN EXISTING SOAK PIT ON SITE AND IN PLACE INSTALL A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT DISCHARGING TO 2 PURAFLO PODS ON A DISTIBUTION GRAVEL LAYER AND ALSO TINCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Kerry County Council, 25166
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 Reennacoola.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Reennacoola.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Reennacoola.
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 Reennacoola, 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 low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Reennacoola.
- 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 Reennacoola with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Reennacoola · Ré na gCúl
- Area
- 471,157 m² (47.12 ha, 116.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- Prior, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iveragh
- Electoral division
- Ballinskelligs, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 419 people lived in 172 households in the Ballinskelligs electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 55% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cools, Curraghnanav, Fermoyle, Sussa
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Reennacoola 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.