Coolnagor or Ricehill
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Loughtee Upper, Co. Cavan; in Irish Cúil na gCorr
- Area
- 51.7 ha
- 128 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 3,737 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolnagor or Ricehill, from 18 m² to 189,028 m² (18.9 ha, 46.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coolnagor or Ricehill 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
11 Apr 2024Conditional
for the development of infilling of land, using imported inert material consisting of natural materials of clay, sub soil & stone in order to raise the levels and improve the land for agricultural purposes together with all ancillary site works. The total quantity of material will not exceed 48000 metres cubed (class 5 material as per third schedule part 2). The lands will be covered with topsoil and reseeded with grass when complete and will include all ancillary and associated site. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and accompanies this application
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460143
27 Mar 2024N/a
for the development of infilling of land, using imported inert material consisting of natural materials of clay, sub soil & stone in order to raise the levels and improve the land for agricultural purposes together with all ancillary site works. The total quantity of material will not exceed 48000 metres cubed (class 5 material as per third schedule part 2). The lands will be covered with topsoil and reseeded with grass when complete and will include all ancillary and associated site. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and accompanies this application
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460119
25 Aug 2020Conditional
for the erection of a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, entrance gates and piers, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20363
10 Apr 2018Conditional
for external works to include relocation of boundary wall, pedestrian footpath, lighting, extended play areas, parking facilities (previous permission granted under Pl. Reg. 14-93) and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 18142
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 Coolnagor or Ricehill.
Recorded monuments
- CV025-022 School
Description
Two schoolhouses associated with William Beddell, Church of Ireland Bishop of Kilmore from 1629-42. The E school, now a modernised dwelling-house, is thick-walled, vaulted and apparently 17th century in date, while the W school dates to the early 19th century. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Architectural heritage
- Ricehill House, house, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey with dormer attic house, built c.1750, having single-storey front elevation, two-storey rear elevation with gabled projecting porch, and single-bay addition to west gable, c.1860. Pitched artificial slate roof, red-brick chimneystacks with tall pots original to east gable and rebuilt to west gable, replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls having smooth rendered plinth and strip quoins. Six-over-six timber sash windows with patent reveals and dressed stone sills. Replacement uPVC windows to rear elevation. Central round-headed door opening flanked by five-pane side lights in separate openings. Plain glazed semi-circular fanlight and replacement timber panelled door, approached by flight of cut-stone steps flanked by low walls with rounded render copings. Set back from road with rendered ruled-and-lined entrance screen wall to road frontage having square-profile piers and wrought-iron gates. Outbuildings having corrugated metal roofs and rubble stone walls.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolnagor or Ricehill.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Coolnagor or Ricehill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Coolnagor or Ricehill · Cúil na gCorr
- Area
- 517,436 m² (51.74 ha, 127.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughtee Upper
- Electoral division
- Killykeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killykeen electoral division: 646 people in 215 households; 90% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cornacrea, Drumskeagh, Farragh, Kilmore Upper, Tircullen
- Placenames
- Coolnagor or Ricehill 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.