Coolcullitha
Coolcullitha is a townland in the civil parish of Templemichael, barony of Kinalea, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Chúil Chodlatach.
- Area
- 145.6 ha
- 360 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 13,174 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolcullitha, from 1,474 m² to 432,383 m² (43.24 ha, 106.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coolcullitha 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
5 Mar 2026Grant with conditions
Planning permission to construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0524
31 Jul 2025Conditional permission
Permission for the demolition of a front and rear porch and the construction of extensions and alterations to an existing dwelling house incorporating a granny flat and a domestic garage, the installation of a new on-site waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5533
4 Oct 2022Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose, installation of a domestic waste water treatment system, construction of a new vehicular entrance and to carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6235
13 Jan 2022Conditional
The construction of a new part single storey, part two storey, detached dwelling with associated single storey detached garage, a new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, a new site entrance, including all associated site works and landscaping
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4031
26 Nov 2020Conditional
Construction of a cattle house, with four slatted slurry tanks, concrete cow path, concrete apron and all associated site works (change to location from that permitted under condition no. 2 of planning reg. 20/05109).
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6640
21 Oct 2020Conditional
The construction of new two storey detached dwelling with an associated single storey detached garage and including all associated site works, new entrance, drainage works and associated landscaping.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6312
19 Oct 2020Incompleted application
Alterations to plan previously permitted under planning ref. no. 20/05109 to include revised location of proposed cattle house with four no. slatted slurry tanks, revised location of proposed concrete cow path and proposed concrete apron and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6293
3 Jun 2020Conditional
Construct a cattle house with four no. slatted slurry tanks, construct a concrete cow path, concrete apron and carry out associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5109
24 Feb 2016Conditional
(a) Widening of existing entrance, (b) construction of agricultural building to include milking parlour, dairy, electrical and plant room, unroofed waiting yard and livestock handing facilities, (c) construction of underground parlour washing tanks, (d) construction of roofed slatted tanks and infilling of existing shed with cubicles, (e) erection of external bulk tank, (g) erection of meal bin and water storage tank, (g) Retention of 2 no. livestock housing sheds, (h) Retention of straw storage shed, and (I) Retention of silage slab along with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4417
20 Dec 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13594
25 Apr 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse & proprietary treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2681
27 Sept 2004Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7273
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 Coolcullitha.
Recorded monuments
- CO097-036 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on E-facing slope. Roughly circular area (30m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1m). Gap in bank to N. Interior slopes slightly downhill to SE. 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
- CO097-037 Fulacht fia
Description
In marshy ground beside stream. No visible surface trace; possibly destroyed by roadworks. 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
- CO097-067 Country house
Description
Late 18th/early 19th century 2-storey house. Entrance front (E) of 5 bays; central round-headed door ope with fanlight; weatherslated to below ground floor windows. Roof hipped with two off-centre chimneys. Gabled projection to rear. S elevation also weatherslated. Farm buldings to W. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolcullitha.
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
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolcullitha.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Coolcullitha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Coolcullitha · An Chúil Chodlatach
- Area
- 1,456,129 m² (145.61 ha, 359.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templemichael, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Electoral division
- Templemichael, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 778 people lived in 243 households in the Templemichael electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annagh More, Barna, Bawngoula, Clogheenduane, Killaminoge, Killountane, Tooreen
- Placenames
- Coolcullitha 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.