Coolacheesker
Coolacheesker is a townland in the civil parish of Clonmeen, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cúil an Choimheascair.
- Area
- 47.9 ha
- 118 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 1,615 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 27
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolacheesker, from 467 m² to 391,998 m² (39.2 ha, 96.86 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coolacheesker 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
3 Oct 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a new dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6083
4 Sept 2025Invalid - case closed
Permission to construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5789
22 Mar 2021Refused
Construction of a crematorium and all associated site works and landscaping including decommissioning of existing waste water treatment system and provision of new waste water treatment system, new vehicle parking and circulation, removal of the entrance gateposts, alterations to entrances at existing locations to create one entrance/exit with right turning lane off N72. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4718
15 Feb 2021Incompleted application
Construction of a crematorium and all associated site works and landscaping including decommissioning of existing waste water treatment system and provision of new waste water treatment system, new vehicle parking and circulation, removal of the entrance gateposts, alterations to entrances at existing locations to create one entrance/exit with right turning lane off N72. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4347
8 Jan 2021Incompleted application
Construction of a crematorium and all associated site works and landscaping including decommissioning of existing waste water treatment system and provision of new waste water treatment system, new vehicle parking and circulation, removal of the entrance gateposts, alterations to entrances at existing locations to create one entrance/ exit with right turning lane off N72. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4020
1 Nov 2018Refused
Construction of a crematorium and all associated site works and landscaping including decommissioning of existing waste water treatment system and provision of new waste water treatment system, new car parking and circulation, removal of the entrance gateposts, alterations to entrances at existing locations to create one dedicated entrance and one dedicated exit. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6880
13 Sept 2018Incompleted application
Construction of a crematorium and all associated site works and landscaping including decommissioning of existing waste water treatment system and provision of new waste water treatment system, new car parking and circulation, removal of the entrance gateposts, alterations to entrances at existing locations to create one dedicated entrance and one dedicated exist. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6437
27 Apr 2016Conditional
Construct slatted beef unit, dungstead and hay store and retention of a calf house
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4980
11 Nov 2015Unconditional
Two storey dwelling, garage, entrance, domestic waste water treatment plant and polish filter and associated site works - Extension of duration of permission granted under planning ref: 10/8254
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 15/6522
14 Apr 2014Conditional
The completion of the demolition of the former hotel and associated structures and the construction of 4 no. two-storey dwellinghouses including garages, ancillary development, and all site development and landscaping works at the c.2.9ha (c.7.2 acres) site of the former Duhallow Park Hotel.
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4744
19 Apr 2013Unconditional
Demolition and reconstruction of existing hotel to include 36 no. bedrooms, 2 no. suites, function room and ancillary uses, construction of 13 no. detached dwellings, 3 no. with detached garages, 6 of which are to be used for short term letting, installation of effluent treatment system, new vehicular service entrance to treatment plant compound and all associated site works, extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 08/5550
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/4710
19 Oct 2010Conditional
Two storey dwelling, garage, entrance, domestic wastewater treatment plant and polishing filter and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8254
26 Jan 2010Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, septic tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4118
22 Dec 2009Incompleted application
Dwelling house, detached domestic garage & associated site works including new septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/8020
7 Dec 2009Withdrawn
Two-storey dwelling with attached garage, entrance, domestic wastewater treatment plant & percolation area, & all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7844
1 Jul 2009Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, installation of septic tank and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6171
16 Dec 2008Withdrawn
Demolition of existing hotel & construction of new hotel which will include 60no. bedrooms & all ancillary uses. Separate 80 seat restaurant,separate petrol station & convenience shop, effluent treatment system with new vehicular service entrance to plant compound & all associated siteworks and services
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10151
19 Mar 2008Conditional
Demolition and reconstruction of existing hotel to include 36 no. bedrooms, 2 no. suites, function room and ancillary uses, construction of 13 no. detached dwellings, 3no. with detached garages, 6 of which are to be used for short term letting, installation of effluent treatment system, new vehhicular service entrance to treatment plant compound and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5550
15 Feb 2008Incompleted application
Demolition and re-construction of hotel to include 36 no. bedrooms, 2 no. suites, function room and ancillary uses, construction of 13 no. detached dwellings with garages, effluent treatment system, vehicular service entrance to treatment plant compound and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4814
5 Apr 2007Conditional
Construction of slatted house and 2 no. underground effluent tanks
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6821
22 Mar 2007Conditional
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6348
1 Mar 2007Withdrawn
Demolition and reconstruction of existing hotel to include 36 no. bedrooms, 2 no. suites, function room and ancillary uses, construction of 10 no. detached dwellings with garages, 3 no. detached dwellings with detached garages, effluent treatment system, vehicular service entrance to treatment plant compound and associated site works and services
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5574
20 Feb 2007Refused
Infilling of low lying land with soil, stone, construction and demolition waste, widening and upgrading of existing entrance and all ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5234
22 Dec 2006Incompleted application
Dormer dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/13734
6 Dec 2006Incompleted application
Infill of 5.42ha of low lying land with soil, stone and construction and demolition waste, widening and upgrading of existing entrance and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13017
The 25 most recent of 27 applications.
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolacheesker.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolacheesker.
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 Coolacheesker, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_660 (ZIP).
- 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 Coolacheesker with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Coolacheesker · Cúil an Choimheascair
- Area
- 478,822 m² (47.88 ha, 118.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonmeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Castlemagner, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 720 people lived in 257 households in the Castlemagner electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 54% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dromcummer Beg, Dromcummer More, Kilcaskan South
- Placenames
- Coolacheesker 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.