Coolacareen
Townland in the civil parish of Aghinagh, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork; in Irish Cúil Uí Chéirín
- Area
- 78.8 ha
- 195 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 6,010 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolacareen, from 53 m² to 187,238 m² (18.72 ha, 46.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 31 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 Jun 2024Conditional
Permission to (i) Demolish old milking parlour (ii) Demolish dry store (iii) Construct a new easy feed slatted livestock house. Proposed slatted house to incorporate associated underground slatted slurry storage tank with external agitation points, crush, straw bedded lie-back & ancillary concrete. The above development to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5113
15 May 2024Incompleted application
Permission to construct a new easy feed slatted livestock house. Proposed slatted house to incorporate associated underground slatted slurry storage tank with external agitation points, crush, straw bedded lie-back & ancillary concrete. The above development to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4864
14 Sept 2012Conditional
Retention of domestic garage
Retention · Cork County Council, 12/5963
26 Sept 2008Conditional
Alterations to existing 110kV Macroom station comprising of the erection of 1 no. 38kV line bay to include cable sealing end, line/earth disconnect, voltage transformer, current transformer, circuit breaker and busbar disconnect, erection of 1 no. arc suppression coil with concrete bund, 1 no. change over disconnect, 1 no. nvd voltage transformer and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9060
24 Sept 2008Conditional
Alterations and extension to dwelling and retention of domestic garage/storage shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9007
27 Sept 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/7269
9 Dec 2003Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/6275
26 Feb 2003Refused
2 no. dwellings
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/808
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 Coolacareen.
Recorded monuments
- CO071-130 Fulacht fia
Description
According to local information, burnt material noted after ploughing to NE of lake. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO071-138 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, on E side of well. Burnt material noted atop naturally raised area; heavily overgrown. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO071-154 Burnt mound
Description
In pasture, on the N side of a field boundary and c. 10m NE of a pond. A subrectangular mound (14m N-S; 14m E-W; H 0.45m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolacareen.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Coolacareen.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Coolacareen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Coolacareen · Cúil Uí Chéirín
- Area
- 788,396 m² (78.84 ha, 194.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghinagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Electoral division
- Mashanaglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mashanaglass electoral division: 502 people in 163 households; 93% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caum, Coolacoosane, Lackavunaknick, Mashanaglass, Rosnascalp, Ummera
- Placenames
- Coolacareen 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.