Coolabaun

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolabaun, from 179 m² to 248,591 m² (24.86 ha, 61.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Coolabaun 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.

• 13 Oct 2017Conditional

  Demolish existing dwelling and construct a new dwelling and domestic garage with associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/658

• 30 Sept 2014Conditional

  Construction of a farm machinery shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/566

• 26 Aug 2004Withdrawn

  2 no. dwellinghouses

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6490

• 11 Feb 1999Conditional

  Construction of extension to rear & conservatory to front of dwellinghouse & installation of septic tank & percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 99/587

• 11 Mar 1998Conditional

  Demolition of dwelling & construction of dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 98/920

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Coolabaun.

Recorded monuments

• CO108-021 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture on gentle E-facing slope. Sub-circular area (60m E-W; 42m N-S) defined by arc of stone-built field fence (H 1.5m) WSW->ESE; by grass-covered earthen bank (H 0.7m) elsewhere. Bank forms right angle to S; breaks to SE and N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO108-022 Souterrain
  Description

  On NE-facing slope, N of roadway. Discovered 1980. Three earth-cut chambers with barrel-vaulted ceilings. Construction shaft in each chamber blocked by large slab set on edge. Average dimensions: L 2m; Wth 1m; H c.1m (pers.comm. J.P. McCarthy). No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 Coolabaun, about 1 in 5 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 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 Coolabaun.

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 Coolabaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Coolabaun · Na Cúla Bána

Area

437,729 m² (43.77 ha, 108.17 acres)

Civil parish

Kinneigh, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (West Division)

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

500 people lived in 174 households in the Castletown electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghalinane, Ardkilleen, Gurteenroe

Placenames

Coolabaun 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.