Coolboy
Townland in the civil parish of Caheragh, barony of Carbery West (West Division), Co. Cork; in Irish An Chúil Bhuí
- Area
- 212.4 ha
- 525 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 33,035 m² (3.3 ha, 8.16 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolboy, from 179 m² to 184,391 m² (18.44 ha, 45.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Coolboy 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
28 May 2025Conditional permission
Permission to demolish existing old cattle house, permission to construct a larger replacement cattle house with three no. slatted slurry tanks and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/291
12 Mar 2025Incompleted application
Permission to demolish existing old cattle house, permission to construct a larger replacement cattle house with three no. slatted slurry tanks and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/129
18 Apr 2017Conditional
Permission for retention of ancillary dwelling unit and associated site development works
Retention · Cork County Council, 17/219
16 Mar 2011Conditional
Erection of dwelling house, garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/155
11 Feb 2010Conditional
Extension to dwelling house including all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/75
8 Jun 2009Refused
Dwellinghouse, garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/657
22 Dec 2006Conditional
Erect 50m Mononpole wind speed and direction measuring mast
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2871
20 Nov 2006Incompleted application
Erect 50m monopole wind speed and direction measuring mast
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2441
12 May 2006Conditional
Two storey extension onto side of existing dwellinghouse and associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/844
5 Sept 2003Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4448
26 Oct 2001Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/5879
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 Coolboy.
Recorded monuments
- CO132-040 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on break in S-facing slope. Circular, slightly raised area (23m N-S; 26.6m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.3m) SSW->E, scarp elsewhere. Break in bank (Wth 3.2m) to N. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolboy.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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 Coolboy.
- 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 Coolboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Coolboy · An Chúil Bhuí
- Area
- 2,123,545 m² (212.35 ha, 524.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Caheragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Caheragh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Caheragh electoral division: 298 people in 111 households; 90% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyourane, Barna, Cappagh Beg, Garrane, Glanaphuca, Lognagappul
- Placenames
- Coolboy 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.