Coor West
Coor West is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmurry(Kilrush Ra), barony of Ibrickan, Co. Clare.
- Area
- 281.6 ha
- 696 acres
- Land parcels
- 91
- registered freehold, median 13,673 m² (1.37 ha, 3.38 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
91 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coor West, from 140 m² to 228,570 m² (22.86 ha, 56.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coor West 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
30 Apr 2024Conditional
to extend and renovate existing dwelling, install a waste treatment system and all other site and ancillary works. This permission is in lieu of that which was granted under reference P23/446
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 24139
16 Aug 2023Conditional
to replace the existing derelict dwelling with a new dwelling, build a garage, upgrade the septic tank & all other site and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 23446
9 Jun 2022Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, boundary wall with recessed entrance, effluent treatment plant and all ancillary site work
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22511
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 Coor West.
Recorded monuments
- CL039-013 Ringfort - rath
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.
- CL039-014 Ringfort - rath
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.
- CL039-016 Ringfort - rath
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.
Architectural heritage
- Catholic Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, church/chapel, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding gable-fronted double-height Roman Catholic church, dated 1865, with four-bay side elevations. Projecting entrance porch and two-bay single-storey sacristy added to right, 1978. Pitched artificial slate roof with sheeted timber soffits and aluminium rainwater goods. Rendered walls with buttresses to east elevation. Pointed openings with timber traceried windows and timber panelled double leaf doors. Retaining interior features. Graveyard and freestanding belfry to site.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Coor West, 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coor West.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Coor West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Coor West
- Area
- 2,816,359 m² (281.64 ha, 695.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmurry(Kilrush Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibrickan
- Electoral division
- Knocknaboley, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 303 people lived in 112 households in the Knocknaboley electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonlaheen Middle, Cloonlaheen West, Coor East, Doonogan, Shanavogh East, Shanavogh West
- Placenames
- Coor West 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.