Coolcloher West
Townland in the civil parish of Cullen (Millstreet Ra), barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Cúil Chloichir Thiar
- Area
- 86.6 ha
- 214 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 4,559 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolcloher West, from 702 m² to 282,728 m² (28.27 ha, 69.86 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coolcloher West 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
19 Aug 2020Conditional
(1) Retention of the existing domestic garage (2) Permission to construct a 2-storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling, elevational changes to the existing dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5783
7 Feb 2007Conditional
Construction of slatted house over existing slatted tank, calf house, concrete yard, underground effluent storage tank, silage slab and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4823
24 Feb 2006Conditional
Retention of agricultural entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5061
3 Aug 2005Conditional
Retention of alterations and two storey extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5545
20 Jan 2005Conditional
Dairy parlour, collection yard and loose cattle shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/216
30 Sept 2004Withdrawn
Retention of agricultural entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7387
28 Jan 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/399
28 Jan 2004Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse and retention of domestic shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/408
11 Sept 2003Conditional
Calf house
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4564
2 Jul 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3273
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 Coolcloher West.
Recorded monuments
- CO030-051 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 28m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; W half indicated on 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; slight rise remains in area of site. Field fence curves to SW to respect site. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W402). Bowman (1934, 278) records single-ramparted ringfort (diam. c. 32yd) on D. Guerin's land; 'about half of circuit stands' (H c. 3ft). 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
- CO030-052 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, c. 100m NW of stream. Grass-covered spread of burnt material, cut by drain along SE side. Burnt material (L 10m; D 1m) visible in section in drain. One of three fulachta fiadh, two of which were levelled, recorded by Bowman (1934, 278) on D. Guerin's land (see 10576, 10577). 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 Coolcloher West.
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 Coolcloher West.
- 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 Coolcloher West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Coolcloher West · Cúil Chloichir Thiar
- Area
- 866,300 m² (86.63 ha, 214.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cullen (Millstreet Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Skagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Skagh electoral division: 432 people in 150 households; 85% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolcloher East, Derryleagh, Derrynatubbrid, Knockastuckane, Maulyclickeen, Skagh
- Placenames
- Coolcloher West 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.