Coolacresig
Coolacresig is a townland in the civil parish of Clondrohid, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cúil an Chraosaigh.
- Area
- 64.9 ha
- 160 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 9,397 m² (0.94 ha, 2.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolacresig, from 586 m² to 115,981 m² (11.6 ha, 28.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Coolacresig 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
14 Jun 2024Conditional
Permission for the construction of new dwelling house and domestic garage, new entrance, wastewater treatment system together with all other ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5120
27 Mar 2019Conditional
To construct a new vehicular entrance, driveway and all associated site works to service existing farmhouse dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4749
24 Jan 2019Conditional
(a) The partial demolition of dwelling, (b) the refurbishment of an existing two storey dormer dwelling including alterations to existing elevations, (c) a two storey link extension from the existing dwelling to a proposed two storey extension to the side. (d) a proposed proprietary sewage treatment plant and soil polishing filter percolation area, (e) all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4136
19 Dec 2018Incompleted application
(A) The refurbishment of an existing two storey dormer dwelling including alterations to existing elevations, (B) Permission for a two storey link extension from the existing dwelling to a proposed two storey extension to the side. (C) A proposed proprietary sewage treatment plant and soil polishing filter percolation area, (E) all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7362
3 Nov 2010Conditional
Construction of a new dwellinghouse, treatment system and raised sand polishing filter
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8372
8 Mar 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 07/5796
7 Dec 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8968
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 Coolacresig.
Recorded monuments
- CO070-014 Standing stone
Description
Not shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map. In pasture, on S-facing slope. Stone (H 1.7m; 1.45m x 0.5m) is rectangular in plan, with packing stones exposed at base; long axis NE-SW. 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
- CO070-015 Kiln - lime
Description
Built against rock outcrop; very overgrown and partially collapsed rectangular kiln with rounded corners (c. 4.6m N-S; c. 4.2m E-W). Front elevation (E) has lintelled passage (H 0.4m; Wth 0.5m; D 1.2m) at base on N leading into funnel (3m N-S; 2.2m E-W). Passage is off-centre to N; Send of front elevation collapsed and overgrown. Stone-lined funnel (3m N-S;2.2m E-W), partially infilled. Forecourt area (3.2m N-S; 2.2m E-W),enclosed by stone revetting on N and S sides. Not typical of mid Cork kilns but resembles some examples along coast of West Cork (See Cooldurragha 3440). Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolacresig.
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 Coolacresig, 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 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 Coolacresig.
- 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 Coolacresig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Coolacresig · Cúil an Chraosaigh
- Area
- 648,746 m² (64.87 ha, 160.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondrohid, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Kilnamartery, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 731 people lived in 249 households in the Kilnamartery electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrignamaddry, Gortnalicky, Gortnapeasty, Lackaneen, Lissacresig, Scronagare
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Coolacresig 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.