Coolawaleen

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolawaleen, from 618 m² to 413,097 m² (41.31 ha, 102.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Coolawaleen 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.

• 20 May 2026Awaiting f.i. response

  Permission to construct a dwelling house and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1339

• 10 Oct 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/11302

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• CO023-171 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on high ground above sharp drop to N and W down to Ketragh River. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured triangular raised area on 1905 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace of site. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 33) as single-ramparted fort (diam. 42yd; bank H c. 3ft) on W. Ahern's land, with fosse infilled. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO024-114 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage, on gentle NW-facing slope. According to local information, site of fort in field. Surrounding field fences removed. Roughly circular enclosure visible as cropmark of fosse in aerial photograph (CASAP). Bowman (1934, 33) recorded levelled single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 33yd) on M. O'Connell's land. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO032-001001 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage, on W-facing slope, overlooking Castlemagner Wood to S. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured subrectangular enclosure (c. 60m E-W; c. 48m N-S) on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps, with corners rounded and E end convex. Levelled; fosse (Wth 2.2m) visible as differential growth pattern N->WSW. Visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W408, 03-07-1975) as subrectangular enclosure with enclosing elements overgrown, interior tilled and entrance to E. Visible as cropmark of bank and external fosse in aerial photograph (CASAP, 27-06-1984) of levelled subrectangular enclosure. According to Bowman (1934, 33), single-ramparted fort (diam. 62yd) on M. O'Connell's land, with enclosing bank c. 4ft H and external fosse 4ft D and c. 5ft wide. Possible souterrain (13349) in interior. Enclosure (13739) visible in interior in aerial photograph (CASAP, 24-07-1989). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO032-001002 Souterrain
  Description

  In levelled enclosure (CO032-00101-). According to Bowman (1934, 33), 'depressions on the east and south sides, indicate site of souterrain'. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO032-001003 Enclosure
  Description

  Asymmetrically situated to W of centre, within interior of larger enclosure (13738). Cropmark of fosse of roughly oval enclosure (diam. c. 30m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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 Coolawaleen.

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

At the centre of the townland of Coolawaleen, 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 Coolawaleen.

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.

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

Name

Coolawaleen · Cúil an Mháilín

Area

1,170,839 m² (117.08 ha, 289.32 acres)

Civil parish

Castlemagner, 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

Castlemagner, Cloonteens, Gneeves, Kilpatrick, Kippagh North, Knockardsharriv

Placenames

Coolawaleen 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.