Coolavoher

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolavoher, from 46 m² to 171,895 m² (17.19 ha, 42.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Coolavoher 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.

• 10 Mar 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1441

• 14 Jul 2003Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3484

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 Coolavoher.

Recorded monuments

• CO069-007 Anomalous stone group
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope. Irregular sandstone boulder (H 0.9m; 1.2m x 0.9m; long axis NE-SW) lies 2.7m NE of a second similar boulder (H 0.7m; 1.2m x 0.75m; long axis NW-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

• CO069-008 Stone row
  Description

  In sloping pasture, overlooking Douglas River valley to S. Row of three stones, aligned NE-SW, 3.4m in overall length. NE stone is 0.6m L, 0.5m T and 0.8m H. Next stone, 0.75m to SW, is 0.6m L, 0.3m T and 0.4m H. SW stone, 0.5m from last, is 0.65m L, 0.5m T and 1m H. (O Nualláin 1988, 233, no. 21) 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

• CO069-060 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture; area on N side of laneway into farmyard, much strewn with loose stones, reputedly site of O Herlihy castle (Healy 1988, 47), of which there is no other 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

• CO069-089 Standing stone
  Description

  In rough pasture, on a steep S-facing slope with a view S across the valley of the Douglas River. This standing stone (0.9m x 0.2m; H 1.9m) is orientated NE-SW and is incorporated into an E-W stone field boundary that is obscured by briars and bushes. 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 Coolavoher.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Coolavoher.

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.

No address of the register names Coolavoher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Coolavoher · Cúil an Mhothair

Area

595,999 m² (59.6 ha, 147.27 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyvourney, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry West

Electoral division

Gortnatubbrid, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gortnatubbrid electoral division: 474 people in 173 households; 79% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolierher, Gortnafunshion, Gortnagross, Gortnatubbrid, Rath East

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Coolavoher 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.