Cooleabeg

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooleabeg, from 350 m² to 378,156 m² (37.82 ha, 93.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Cooleabeg 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Cooleabeg in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Black Head-Poulsallagh Complex SAC 000020
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Black Head-Poulsallagh Complex 000020

Recorded monuments

• CL005-109 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  On level rough outcropping limestone karst and hazel-covered ground. The area to the E is extensively cleared. A poorly surviving wedge tomb, heavily overgrown and difficult to distinguish at the time of inspection in 1997. The following is a summary of de Valera and Ó Nualláin’s (1961, 6-7) description. It is surrounded by a low mound (diam. 8m), crossed by an E-W field wall. Incorporated in this wall is the N sidestone (L 2.45m; if erect H 1.6m; T 0.2-0.25m) which leans S at an angle of c. 45֯. The N sidestone overlies two broken slabs. The W stone (L 1.7m; Wth 1.4m) has a dressed edge and is likely the W end of the S sidestone. The other (L 2.1m) overlies the W one and is likely the other part of the S sidestone. The broken base of the S sidestone (L 1.15m) is set beneath this. Three displaced slabs lie W of the chamber. The S of these (L 3.4m; Wth at W 2.6m; Wth at E 1.7m) is likely the roofstone. To the N of this is a slab (L 2.55m) of uncertain function. The third stone (exposed N edge L 1.3m) is incorporated in the fieldwall. While de Valera and Ó Nualláin (ibid.) noted that the original dimensions of the chamber could not be ascertained, their plan indicates that it was orientated to the SSW and was likely c. 2.5m in length and c. 2.3m wide internally at the open W end, narrowing to c. 1.3m wide towards the rear. The surrounding mound may conceal the remains of a cairn, as exposed in the excavations of two of three wedge tomb (CL017-180002-) in Parknabinnia townland (Ó Maoldúin 2015). Another wedge tomb (CL005-110----) is visible in the neighbouring townland of Colleamore, c. 940m to the ESE. The following items have been uploaded: CL005-109----_01.pdf Details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961). CL005-109----_01.jpg View of overgrown tomb from WNW Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 3 April 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cooleabeg, 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 high, 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 Cooleabeg.

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 Cooleabeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Cooleabeg

Area

1,251,790 m² (125.18 ha, 309.32 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoon, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Mount Elva, the unit of the census

Census 2022

91 people lived in 37 households in the Mount Elva electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 14% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blakesmountain, Cooleamore, Cragreagh, Killeany, Lislarheenbeg, Lismorahaun

Placenames

Cooleabeg 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.