Coole
Coole is a townland in the civil parish of Drishane, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Chúil.
- Area
- 112.4 ha
- 278 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 4,265 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coole, from 32 m² to 402,470 m² (40.25 ha, 99.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 33 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
2 Sept 2020Conditional
To construct new public footpath & all associated services & site works (from Drishane Castle entrance to the Coole crossroads).
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5904
30 Apr 2008Conditional
Construction of steel fabrication facility of approx. 16200sq.m with associated administration and technical offices, staff canteen, reception, sanitary accommodation and site development works comprising of entrance, access road, road boundary wall and railing, site boundary railing, open yard for steel storage, truck and staff car park at rear of building, visitor car park to front of building and proprietary treatment plant
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6433
15 Feb 2008Conditional
Bungalow, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4775
12 Apr 2007Refused
Dwelling and garage/store
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6960
8 Mar 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and garage/store
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5767
24 Jan 2007Conditional
Construction of slatted house with underground tank, milking parlour and soiled water tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4411
15 Sept 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse and domestic garage/store
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/10650
15 Mar 2006Conditional
Milking parlour, soiled water tank and cattle crush
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5567
24 Nov 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/8647
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 Coole.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coole.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coole.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Coole, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coole.
- 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 Coole with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Coole · An Chúil
- Area
- 1,124,307 m² (112.43 ha, 277.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drishane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Drishane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,032 people lived in 699 households in the Drishane electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cooleenaree, Coolnagillagh Upper, Drishane Beg, Drishane More, Killowen, Lackabane
- Placenames
- Coole 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.