Coolnadead

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolnadead, from 460 m² to 193,940 m² (19.39 ha, 47.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Coolnadead 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.

• 28 Feb 2025Conditional

  (A) DEMOLITION OF THE EXSISTING STORAGE SHED TO THE REAR OF THE EXSISTING DWELLING HOUSE (B) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STORY EXTENSION TO REAR AND WESTERN SIDE OF EXSISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ELEVATION CHANGES/WORKS AND (C) PERMISSION TO EXTEND THE PERCOLATION AREA FOR THE SEPTIC THAT SERVES THE EXISTING DWELLING.

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2545

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Coolnadead.

Recorded monuments

• KE039-207 Mound
  Description

  'On top of a rise of limestone outcrop in an area which has been largely reclaimed, and neatly bisected by an N-S field boundary is a complex of low banks, mounds and hollows......a sub-circular mound, 8.00m N-S by 10.0m E-W, with a circular central depression 3.00m in diameter. The average height of the mound is 0.35m, the centre of the depression being 0.25m below the crest of the mound. Several other depressions occur on this rise, and other banks were noted on aerial photographs but could not be accurately traced on the ground. Though grass covered, the mound is mainly composed of stone.' Compiled by Michael Connolly for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as part of a survey of the Lee Valley area in 1996-97. Date of upload: 26 April 2012

• KE039-208 Mound
  Description

  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.

• KE039-209 Field system
  Description

  'On top of a rise of limestone outcrop in an area which has been largely reclaimed, and neatly bisected by an N-S field boundary is a complex of low banks, mounds and hollows. The largest of these banks occurs to the east of the modern N-S field boundary and is c.75.0m in length. This bank has a maximum width of 6.00m and an average height of 0.35m. The bank is comprised of a mixture of earth and stone. On the western side of the field boundary are a number of interconnecting banks, the most prominent of which is a low earthen bank which runs in an E-W direction for 35.0m, terminating at the field fence. This bank is, on average 4.00m in width and has an average height of 0.30m. Adjoining this bank at its western terminus is another low earthen bank, also 0.30m in height, 5.00m in width, which runs in a N-S direction for 25.0m.' Compiled by Michael Connolly for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as part of a survey of the Lee Valley area in 1996-97. Date of upload: 26 April 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Coolnadead, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_161 (ZIP).

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

Name

Coolnadead · Cúil na dTéad

Area

504,520 m² (50.45 ha, 124.67 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacelligott, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Arabela, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,664 people lived in 466 households in the Arabela electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Arabela, Ballymacelligott, Ballymacthomas, Bealagrellagh, Cloghermore, Doonimlaghbeg, Loughnacappagh

Placenames

Coolnadead 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.