Coolcaum

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolcaum, from 949 m² to 300,296 m² (30.03 ha, 74.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Coolcaum 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.

• 5 Jul 2017Conditional

  10 year permission for proposed development consisting of: (1) A 110kV electricity substation including 2 no. control buildings associated electrical plant and equipment, underground electricity cabling, fencing, alterations to a previously permitted borrow pit and temporary construction compound at the Carrigarierk Wind Farm (An Bord Pleanala Ref. PL04.246353, Cork County Council Ref. 15/730) in the townland of Carrigdangan; (2) 110kV underground electricity cabling connecting the proposed substation to the existing Dunmanway ESB substation in the townlands of Carrigdangan, Inchincurka, Kilnadur, Aultaghreagh, Aultagh, Ardcahan, Knockduff, Gurteennasowna and Ballyhalwick; (3) 33kV underground electricity cabling connecting the proposed substation to the permitted Carrigarierk Wind Farm through the townlands of Carrigdangan and Gortatanavally and the permitted Shehy More Wind Farm (ABP Ref. PL04.243486; Cork County Council Ref. 13/551), through the townlands of Shehy More, Coolcaum, Coolmountain, Tullagh, Lackabaun, Clogher, Farrannahineeny, Crushterra, Gurteen and Carrigdangan. Together with all ancillary works and apparatus. The proposed development is located north of Dunmanway, Co. Cork. This application is accompanied by An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/431

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 Coolcaum.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolcaum.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolcaum.

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 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 Coolcaum.

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 Coolcaum with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Coolcaum · An Chúil Cham

Area

934,202 m² (93.42 ha, 230.85 acres)

Civil parish

Inchigeelagh, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (West Division)

Electoral division

Coolmountain, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Coolmountain electoral division: 435 people in 156 households; 80% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolmountain, Lackabaun, Moneylea, Shehy More

Placenames

Coolcaum 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.