Cooldurragha
Townland in the civil parish of Carrigleamleary, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork; in Irish An Chúil Dorcha
Parcel 2141663
- Area
- 312,737 m² (31.27 ha, 77.28 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 71 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Cooldurragha
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 5 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 this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 403.8 ha
- 998 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 121,506 m² (12.15 ha, 30.02 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooldurragha, from 53 m² to 475,612 m² (47.56 ha, 117.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
10 Jun 2026F.i. consultees/awaiting recommendation
Permission for a 2-storey dwelling house, garage, new entrance, septic tank, soil polishing filter all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1538
18 Sept 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to a) construct a new dwelling house, b) alter an existing agricultural entrance to serve proposed dwelling with access road and entrance to agricultural land, c) install a new bored well and d) install a new wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5947
20 Aug 2025Invalid - case closed
Permission to (a) Construct a new dwelling house, (b) Modify an existing entrance, (c) Install a new bored well and (d) Install a new wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all associated site work.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5668
26 Mar 2024Conditional
Permission for renovation of existing dwelling house to include for elevational changes and the construction of a single storey extension to the north of existing dwelling, on-site wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4517
16 Mar 2021Incompleted application
Construction of an agricultural storage building.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4662
1 Dec 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8866
25 Nov 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8708
20 Jul 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5199
3 Feb 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/521
26 Aug 2004Conditional
Retention of porch to dwelling, stables and boiler house
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6502
5 Aug 2004Incompleted application
Retention of porch to front of dwellinghouse, stables and boiler house
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5971
27 May 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/3748
29 Mar 2004Conditional
Change of use of agricultural unit to commercial storage unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2041
30 May 2003Conditional
Retention of weigh bridge and weigh bridge station house
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2626
3 Apr 2003New application
Retention of weigh bridge & weigh bridge station house
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1513
3 Apr 2003Conditional
Construction of 2 no. agricultural sheds for storage
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1534
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 Cooldurragha.
Recorded monuments
- CO025-057 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture. Depicted as hachured oval enclosure (38m NW-SE; 30m NE-SW) on 1842, 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Arc formed by earthen bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1m) survives NW->SE. Bank levelled SE->NW with cattle sheds and enclosure built on site. 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
- CO025-058 Ringfort - rath
Description
Indicated as circular enclosure (diam. c. 38m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, at WSW end of garden; interior planted. Levelled; arc formed by earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.85m) with external fosse (D 1.15m) survives in field fence system to SW. Fosse appears to have been deepened due to drainage works. 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
- CO025-059 Ringfort - rath
Description
In tillage. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace of site. Bivallate circular enclosure visible as cropmark of fosses in aerial photograph (CASAP). 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
- CO025-061001 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: 12 September 2014
- CO025-061002 Kiln - lime
Description
Built in shallow depression against natural slope. Crumbling random-rubble walls retain earthen core. Front elevation (H c. 3.5m) with arched stone recess, inaccessible due to dumped material. Depression on top of kiln indicates position of infilled funnel. Ramp to rear. 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
- CO025-062 Enclosure
Description
In tillage, on SE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured penannular raised area (open to S, diam. c. 30m) on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. Ringfort (12349) in same field c. 50m to SE. 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
- CO025-063001 Ringfort - rath
Description
In tillage, on SE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (38.3m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by inner earthen bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 0.2m); intervening fosse (D 1.5m) W->S; outer earthen bank (H 0.3m) W->E and SSE. Causewayed entrance (Wth 2m) to W. Trees grow on bank and in fosse. Interior covered in nettles; slopes gently down to S. Well depicted inside ESE bank on 1842 OS 6-inch map; in ESE fosse on 1937 OS 6-inch map and named Tubber an eeling. According to OS Memoranda (20-12-1931), 'locals call fort 'Tober aneeling'. Circular enclosure (CO025-062---) in same field c. 50m to NW. 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
- CO025-063002 Ritual site - holy well
Description
This holy well is referred to in the 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork - vol. 4 North Cork' (2000, 257) under the entry (no. 12349) for a rath (CO025-063001-). The reference to the holy well in the entry is as follows: Well depicted inside ESE bank on 1842 OS 6-inch map; in ESE fosse on 1937 OS 6-inch map and named Tubber an eeling. According to OS Memoranda (20-12-1931), 'locals call fort 'Tober aneeling'. 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
- CO025-064 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture. Circular area (35m E-W; 33m N-S) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse (D 0.65m). Inner bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.45m) survives SW->ESE; scarp elsewhere. Outer bank (H 0.6m) survives E->N. Interior grass-covered; rises gently towards centre; shallow circular depression (diam. 7m) inside scarp to S. 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
- CO025-216 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pastureland. Cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 28m), possibly a rath, defined by a ditch visible on MapGenie Digital Globe aerial imagery (2006-2012). Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère
- CO025-219 Enclosure
Description
In tillage, cropmark of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 32m) defined by a ditch visible on Apple Maps imagery. Outer ditch is visible E->NW. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère See attached image Date of upload/revision: 30 March 2022
- CO025-220 Enclosure
Description
In tillage, cropmark of a semi-circular arc (E->WSW; diam. c. 43m), defined by a ditch visible on Apple Maps imagery. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère See attached image Date of upload/revision: 30 March 2022
- CO025-223 Enclosure - large enclosure
Description
In tillage, cropmark of large circular-shaped area (diam. c. 71m E-W) defined by a ditch visible on Apple Maps imagery. Truncated by S field/townland boundary SSE->SW. Circular ditch-defined area (diam. c. 37.5m) at centre. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère See attached image Date of upload/revision: 05 April 2022
Architectural heritage
- Clenor and Carrig School, school, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-storey former national school, dated 1884, with projecting gabled bay to south end of front elevation. Pitched slate roofs with brick chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods, timber bracketed eaves and render copings to gables. Rendered walls with carved limestone date plaque to gable-front. Square-headed window openings, with brick voussoirs, some openings retaining timber fittings.
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
- 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 Cooldurragha.
- 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 Cooldurragha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Cooldurragha · An Chúil Dorcha
- Area
- 4,037,900 m² (403.79 ha, 997.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carrigleamleary, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Clenor, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clenor electoral division: 373 people in 129 households; 90% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annakisha, Annakisha North, Ballybrack, Ballydineen, Ballyviniter Middle, Caherduggan South, Dromroe Commons, Dromsiveen, Kilburn, Lissanisky, Mountnagle
- Placenames
- Cooldurragha 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.