Coolcarron
Townland in the civil parish of Ballymartle, barony of Kinsale, Co. Cork; in Irish Cúil Chairn
- Area
- 176.2 ha
- 435 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 3,380 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 38
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolcarron, from 753 m² to 439,094 m² (43.91 ha, 108.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Coolcarron 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
14 Jul 2026Grant with conditions
Planning permission to construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1874
8 Dec 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for alterations and extension to side and front of dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6712
22 Mar 2024Withdrawn
Permission to construct domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4501
8 Aug 2023Conditional
Permission for the demolition of the existing extensions, construction of single storey extensions to the existing dwelling, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5610
11 Jun 2021Conditional
To construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5634
11 Jun 2021Conditional
To construct a dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5630
21 Apr 2020Conditional
Retention of minor changes to dwelling granted under Pl. Reg No. 17/4703 to include: (a) Minor elevational changes (b) Minor increase in footprint consisting of enlarged bay window (c) Partial change of roof material from zinc to slate and (d) Retention of partial demolition, alterations and conversion and change of use of existing outbuilding for use as home office and storage on the ground floor and storage area on first floor and extension to same for use as garage all ancillary to the main dwelling house.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/4800
3 Apr 2020Conditional
1. The construction of a new two storey dwelling house and single storey standalone garage / store. 2. The installation of a new proprietary wastewater treatment unit, percolation area and new bored well. 3. The creation of a new entrance from the public road and carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4694
25 Mar 2020Incompleted application
Retention of minor changes to dwelling granted under Pl. Reg. No. 17/4703 to include: (a) minor elevational changes (b) minor increase in footprint consisting of enlarged bay window (c) partial change of roof material from zinc to slate and (d) retention of partial demolition, alterations and conversion and change of use of existing outbuilding for use as home office and storage on the ground floor and storage area on first floor and extension to same for use as garage all ancillary to the main dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4617
11 Apr 2019Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4902
25 Jan 2019Conditional
A dormer dwellinghouse, installation of wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4142
22 Jan 2019Incompleted application
To carry out land reclamation and improvement works, consisting of inert filling a depression in agricultural land to reduce the gradient and reinstate for agricultural production. The works will include the installation of a wheel wash, modification of the existing entrance gate and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4106
12 Dec 2018Incompleted application
A dormer dwellinghouse, installation of wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7278
9 May 2017Conditional
Dwellinghouse, detached garage, euro bio treatment system, associated site works and services
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5117
28 Mar 2017Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, detached garage, euro bio treatment system and associated site works and services.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4727
24 Mar 2017Conditional
The construction of a dwelling house, widening of the existing site entrance, waste water treatment system, bored well and all associated and ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4703
19 Jan 2017Unconditional
Construction of a single storey dwelling, entrance and wastewater treatment unit -Extension of Duration of permission granted under Planning Reg. No.11/5233
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 17/4084
8 Sept 2016Refused
Construction of a dwelling house with attached carport and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6242
21 Dec 2011Conditional
Construction of a single storey extension to front of existing dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6665
8 Jun 2011Conditional
Construction of a single storey dwelling, entrance and wastewater treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5233
13 May 2011Incompleted application
Single storey dwelling, new entrance and waste water treatment plant
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5030
3 Sept 2009Conditional
Upgrading of existing wastewater treatment system with an aeration unit and sand filter, construction of stables to accommodate 2 no. horses and retention of alterations to roof of dwellinghouse including removal of roof barges
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6903
4 Aug 2009Incompleted application
Upgrading of existing wastewater treatment system with an aeration unit and sand filter, construction of stables to accommodate 2 no. horses and retention of the removal of roof barges
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6580
2 Oct 2007Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and installation of waste water treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11349
7 Sept 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10839
The 25 most recent of 38 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 Coolcarron.
Recorded monuments
- CO098-051 Ringfort - rath
Description
In tillage, on E-facing slope. Slightly raised, circular area (26m E-W; 25m N-S) enclosed by heavily overgrown earthen bank (H 1.3m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO098-052 Quarry
Description
Listed as a ‘quarry’ in the SMR (1988) and the RMP (1998). The evidence is not sufficient to warrant accepting this as the location of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 30 January 2015
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolcarron.
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 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 Coolcarron.
- 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 Coolcarron with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Coolcarron · Cúil Chairn
- Area
- 1,761,991 m² (176.2 ha, 435.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymartle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinsale
- Electoral division
- Kinsale Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kinsale Rural electoral division: 5,605 people in 1,855 households; 75% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballindresrough, Ballymartle, Ballynacourty, Dooneen South, Garravesoge, Lackenacummeen, Lisnacrilla, Mullagh, Scart
- Placenames
- Coolcarron 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.