# Cooleabeg, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilmoon, barony of Burren, Co. Clare.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,251,790 m² (125.18 ha, 309.32 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 132,696 m² (13.27 ha, 32.79 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilmoon, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/kilmoon.md
- Barony: Burren
- Electoral division: Mount Elva, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/5805
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30798
- Centre: latitude 53.06579, longitude -9.251738 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooleabeg, from 350 m² to 378,156 m² (37.82 ha, 93.44 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1500951: 378,156 m² (37.82 ha, 93.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1500951.md
- Parcel 1442308: 318,682 m² (31.87 ha, 78.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1442308.md
- Parcel 5918520: 183,328 m² (18.33 ha, 45.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5918520.md
- Parcel 1470479: 133,865 m² (13.39 ha, 33.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1470479.md
- Parcel 1512667: 131,526 m² (13.15 ha, 32.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1512667.md
- Parcel 1505639: 17,752 m² (1.78 ha, 4.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1505639.md
- Parcel 3469895: 2,230 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3469895.md
- Parcel 5919302: 350 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5919302.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Black Head-Poulsallagh Complex SAC, site code 000020, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000020
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Black Head-Poulsallagh Complex, site code 000020

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CL005-109: Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-109----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/cooleabeg.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/cooleabeg.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/cooleabeg.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Cooleabeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Blakesmountain: https://everytownland.com/clare/blakesmountain.md
- Cooleamore: https://everytownland.com/clare/cooleamore.md
- Cragreagh: https://everytownland.com/clare/cragreagh.md
- Killeany: https://everytownland.com/clare/killeany.md
- Lislarheenbeg: https://everytownland.com/clare/lislarheenbeg.md
- Lismorahaun: https://everytownland.com/clare/lismorahaun.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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