Coolanagh
Coolanagh is a townland in the civil parish of Murragh, barony of Kinalmeaky, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cúil Eanach.
- Area
- 256.1 ha
- 633 acres
- Land parcels
- 80
- registered freehold, median 2,778 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- G4
- Green Infrastructure
- Planning
- 76
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolanagh, from 7 m² to 462,174 m² (46.22 ha, 114.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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
- G4Green Infrastructure (Active open space)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 1 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
2 Jun 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for construction of a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose, a new vehicular entrance, installation of a domestic wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1464
3 Feb 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for: 1) construction of gym and 2) installation of 28 public lights, 4m high, along walkways around the perimeter of both playing pitches
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0206
9 Dec 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to construct dwelling, detached garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6729
13 Nov 2025Invalid - case closed
Permission to construct dwelling, detached garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6451
8 Aug 2025Application withdrawn
Permission to construct dwelling, detached garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5595
23 Jun 2025Incompleted application
Permission to construct dwelling, detached garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5210
31 Jan 2025Refused
Permission to construct dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4114
4 Oct 2024Conditional
Permission for the construction of a two storey dwelling house, the construction of a detached domestic garage with first floor storage space, the construction of a site entrance, the installation of a private well, the installation of a waste water treatment unit and associated site polishing filter and all ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5857
26 Apr 2024Conditional
Permission to construct a granny flat extension to main dwelling, construction of a new septic tank and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4734
24 Nov 2023Refused
Permission to construct a two-storey dwelling house with attached single storey garage and installing a waste water treatment unit and ancillary site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6351
2 May 2023Conditional
Construct a new dwelling house, detached domestic garage and wastewater treatment system with all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4852
31 Mar 2023Incompleted application
Construct a dwelling house, garage and waste water treatment with all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4610
22 Dec 2022Withdrawn
Raise the levels of poor land (bog land) back to agricultural land by (i) importing and placing on site surplus excavated topsoil and excavated subsoil, (ii) install a temporary wheel wash during the importation of the topsoil and subsoil and (iii) associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6879
3 Nov 2022Conditional
Permission for a Community Playground including playground equipment, fence and gates, and all ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6468
16 May 2022Conditional
(i) construction of ball wall and astro turf playing surface, along with flood lighting for the astro turf playing area (ii) associated site development works and (iii) retention of vehicular entrance (replacing agricultural entrance) and parking area.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5116
25 Feb 2022Conditional
a) conversion of an existing mainstream classroom to a central activities space and associated alterations to elevations (b) construction of a special educational needs (SEN) base extension to the east of the existing facility consisting of 1 no. mainstream classrooms, 2 no. classroom safe bases, 2 no. small safe places, 1 no. toilet and shower area, 1 no. multi-sensory room, 1 no. staff toilets, 2 no. storage rooms, 1 no. linen room and an office along with play area and proposed yard extension at the existing school and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4409
7 Feb 2022Refused
Construct a dwelling house, garage and wastewater treatment unit with all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4228
16 Apr 2021Conditional
The construction of new dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new entrance, septic tank and percolation area together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4997
21 Sept 2020Refused
The construction of new dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new entrance, septic tank and percolation area together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6055
19 Aug 2020Incompleted application
The construction of new dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new entrance, septic tank and percolation area together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5789
5 May 2020Incompleted application
Construction of a playground, installation of playground equipment and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4894
31 Mar 2020Incompleted application
Construction of a playground. Installation of playground equipment and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4663
12 Apr 2019Conditional
(a) Retention of existing pre-fabricated single storey classroom to the south of the existing facility, (b) Permission for construction of new classroom, new wheelchair w.c. for assisted users and new resource room to the north of the existing facility and (c) Construction of a new staff room and entrance to the east of the existing facility along with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4905
10 Oct 2017Conditional
Construction of new internal alterations, refurbishments, elevational changes, the construction of a new rear extension to an existing dwelling house and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6637
19 Sept 2017Incompleted application
Construction of new internal alterations refurbishments, elevational changes, the construction of a new rear extension to an existing dwellinghouse and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6440
The 25 most recent of 76 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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Coolanagh.
Recorded monuments
- CO095-029 Souterrain
Description
Discovered during reclamation. Access gained through side of drain which had destroyed NE portion of souterrain. Two chambers were recorded, both earth-cut. Chamber I: L 1.1m; Wth.9m. Chamber 2: L 1.5m; Wth 1.0m. (pers. comm. R. M. Cleary). 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
- CO095-067 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular area (38.5m N-S; 39.2m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.45m); silted-up external fosse evident to N and NW. Gap in bank to N (Wth 3m). Interior raised on S side to compensate for hillslope. Field fence (H 1.45m), outside and concentric with bank, to ENE; Ó Ríordáin suggests "there are traces of a second outer rampart" (1933, 64). 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
- CO095-068001 Standing stone
Description
Adjacent to walled yard of presbytery, and c. 10m W of ringfort (CO095-06802-). Sub-rectangular stone aligned NE-SW (H 2.3m; 1.75m x 0.8m). 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
- CO095-068002 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Circular area (35m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.3m) to E and S, with external fosse (D 0.4m). Enclosure planted with conifers; souterrain (CO095-123---) in interior; standing stone (CO095-06801-) W of site. 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
- CO095-123 Souterrain
Description
Ó Ríordáin (1933, 63) mentions cavity in centre of ringfort (CO095-06802-) which 'is pointed out as the entrance to underground chambers'. No visible trace of cavity in overgrown interior. 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
- Church of Saint John the Baptist, church/chapel, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cruciform-plan gable-fronted double-height Roman Catholic church, dated 1872. Comprising four-bay nave with single-bay transepts to sides (north, south), four-stage bell tower to side (south), and canted chancel and single-storey sacristy to rear (west). Pitched slate roofs with wrought-iron ridge cresting and carved limestone eaves courses with corbels, having limestone gable copings with cross finials. Snecked sandstone walls with buttresses and limestone coped plinth. Carved limestone plaque and fonts to front (east) elevation. Limestone platbands to gables of nave, having tooled limestone stringcourses to bell tower. Lancet window openings with tooled limestone sills, having group of five to front elevation of nave and group of three to side elevation of southern transept, having block-and-start surrounds and hood mouldings. Lancet window openings with chamfered sandstone sills to nave, having tooled sandstone voussoirs. Groups of three lancet window openings to side elevation of northern transept under hood moulding, having quatrefoil rose window to apex with tooled limestone surround. Pointed arch window opening with tooled limestone sill, block-and-start surround and voussoirs to chancel, having three ogee-headed lancets and multi-foil rose window within reticulated limestone tracery. Surmounted by tooled limestone hood moulding. Lead-lined quarry-glazing throughout, having lead-lined stained glass windows to front and rear elevation openings. Lancet window openings with tooled limestone sills, block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs to tower, having tooled limestone hood mouldings. Louvres to upper stage openings and quarry-glazed windows elsewhere. Pointed arch window openings with limestone sills to sacristy, having replacement two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Pointed arch door openings to front elevation and side elevations of transepts, having tooled limestone hood mouldings and surrounds and timber battened doors. Scissors braced timber roof to interior with carved timber gallery to rear (east), marble altar furniture to chancel and marble side altars to transepts. Square-profile rendered piers and roughcast rendered walls to front of site. Set within graveyard.
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 Coolanagh, 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 Coolanagh.
- 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 Coolanagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Coolanagh · Cúil Eanach
- Area
- 2,561,190 m² (256.12 ha, 632.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Murragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalmeaky
- Electoral division
- Murragh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 541 people lived in 164 households in the Murragh electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bengour East, Bengour West, Farranthomas, Killaneer, Lissarourke, Newcestown
- Placenames
- Coolanagh 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.