Coolbea
Townland in the civil parish of Inch, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish An Chúil Bhuí
- Area
- 91.3 ha
- 226 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 6,613 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolbea, from 657 m² to 353,238 m² (35.32 ha, 87.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coolbea 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
16 Sept 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, install a new wastewater treatment system & Percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5932
25 Apr 2025Conditional
Permission for 1) Alterations & single storey extensions to the rear of an existing dwelling, 2) A new septic tank waste water system in place of the existing septic tank which is to be decommissioned, 3) A new vehicular entrance to the site from public road & 4) All other associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4771
23 Apr 2024Conditional
Permission for the construction of a single storey detached pool house, ancillary to the existing two storey detached dwelling, and including all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4698
13 Feb 2020Conditional
Installation of a cattle underpass incorporating a soiled water storage tank and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4267
29 May 2019Conditional
(1) Elevational changes to dwellinghouse, (2) 1 no. rooflight to front roof of dwellinghouse and (3) Box dormer type window extension to rear of dwellinghouse and associated site works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/5384
7 Feb 2018Conditional
1. Construction of a two storey dwelling, 2. domestic garage, 3. vehicle entrance off existing private laneway, 4. waste water treatment unit and percolation area, 5. all site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4319
28 Oct 2016Conditional
To construct a 2-storey dwelling, garage, upgrade existing entrance, septic tank, with percolation area and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6713
21 May 2012Conditional
Erection of a dormer/one and half storey extension to a single storey dwelling. This extension will incorporate a domestic garage. The development also includes a separate domestic workshop/garage, the replacement of an existing septic tank with a new sewage treatment system, alterations to existing building elevations and a new agricultural vehicular access from the public road
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5048
27 Apr 2012Incompleted application
Erection of a dormer/one and a half storey extension to a single storey dwelling. The extension will incorporate a domestic garage and also includes a separate domestic workshop/garage and the replacement of an existing septic tank with a new sewage treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4882
28 Nov 2005Conditional
Construction of portal framed building to contain stables, fodder store, tack room and construction of site entrance, access road, sand track and lunging ring
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8740
30 Jan 2004Refused
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/473
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 Coolbea.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolbea.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolbea.
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
- 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 Coolbea.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Coolbea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Coolbea · An Chúil Bhuí
- Area
- 913,100 m² (91.31 ha, 225.63 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inch, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Inch, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Inch electoral division: 624 people in 211 households; 85% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardra More, Ballinvoher, Ballybranagan, Ballymacandrick, Lugfree, Rathcuppoge, Shanahee, Tullaheen More
- Placenames
- Coolbea 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.