Coolbaun

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolbaun, from 1,861 m² to 208,519 m² (20.85 ha, 51.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Coolbaun 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.

• 18 Mar 2026Conditional

  is sought for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank / proprietary treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660164

• 12 Nov 2025N/a

  for Alterations, refurbishment and a rear single storey extension to an existing single storey dwelling including energy upgrades, associated elevational changes, a new effluent treatment plant & percolation area and all associated external works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560694

• 23 May 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and new entrance including ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560296

• 19 Feb 2020Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, septic tank with percolation area and ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20105

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Ballyogan Lough SAC 000019
• Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyogan Lough 000019

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolbaun.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Coolbaun.

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.

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

Name

Coolbaun · An Cúl Bán

Area

1,177,050 m² (117.71 ha, 290.86 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Muckanagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Muckanagh electoral division: 374 people in 127 households; 88% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Creggaunycahill, Derrylumman, Gorteen, Knockatermon, Shanballysallagh, Tullymackan

Placenames

Coolbaun 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.