Coole Upper

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coole Upper, from 37 m² to 671,242 m² (67.12 ha, 165.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Coole Upper 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.

• 29 Jul 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for Retention of bungalow dwelling with usable attic space, detached domestic shed and wastewater treatment unit and percolation area serving existing dwelling.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/2020

• 3 Jan 2024Conditional permission

  Permission for the following; a) enlargement of existing farm entrance, b) construction of access farm passage, c) construction of silage slab, dungstead area & a 7000 gallon effluent tank, d) construction of a haybarn & machinery shed and e) an easy feed/house with slatted tank (capacity c.875.5 cubic metres)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6630

• 19 Oct 2022Conditional

  Alterations to existing agricultural/ domestic vehicular entrance and all ancillary works to achieve sight lines

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6367

• 16 Jul 2020Conditional

  To alter and extend the existing cottage, so as to; (1) construct dormer extension to rear, (2) construct dormer room in existing cottage roof, (3) construct projecting canopy to existing front door with sundry alterations to side elevations as well as, development to existing site entrance and installation of domestic waste water treatment unit with all associated site development works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5501

• 11 May 2020Incompleted application

  To alter and extend existing cottage, so as to; (1) construct dormer extension to rear, (2) construct dormer room in existing cottage roof, (3) construct projecting canopy to existing front-door with sundry alterations to side elevations as well as, development of existing site entrance and installation of domestic waste water treatment unit with all associated site development works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4927

• 8 Oct 2019Withdrawn

  A housing development comprising of 3 no. storey and half dwellings with each dwelling having a detached domestic garage, effluent treatment system and tertiary filter pod and associated site works for this proposed development.

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 19/6436

• 20 Aug 2019Conditional

  Erect a single storey dwellinghouse and detached domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6075

• 23 Apr 2019Incompleted application

  Erect rear extension to existing cottage and alteration to the front façade elevation of existing cottage.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5009

• 27 Mar 2019Refused

  Housing development comprising of 4 no. storey and a half dwellings with each dwelling having a detached domestic garage, effluent treatment system and tertiary filter pod and associated site works for this proposed development

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 19/4737

• 8 Oct 2018Conditional

  Retention and completion of dwelling (change of design and layout and revised site boundaries from that permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 16/5052) and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6645

• 13 Aug 2018Incompleted application

  (a) Retention of site works as constructed (change of design from that permitted under Pl. Reg No. 16/5052 and (b) permission for construction of dwelling and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6136

• 9 Jul 2018Conditional

  2 no. extensions to dwelling, one to south elevation comprising a separate independent living apartment, the other comprising a utility room to the rear of the existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5791

• 15 May 2017Conditional

  To erect a storey and a half dwellinghouse with detached domestic garage, on site waste water treatment system, bored well, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5189

• 22 Feb 2017Conditional

  Retention of attic conversion to the first floor attic space of existing dwelling, consisting of bedroom with en-suite, storage area and 4 no. velux roof lights to existing roof. Also retention of sun-lounge extension to the south east gable of existing dwelling

  Retention · Cork County Council, 17/4390

• 6 Dec 2016Incompleted application

  Retention of attic conversion to the first floor attic space of existing dwelling, consisting of bedroom with en-suite, storage area and 4 no.Velux roof lights to existing roof. Also Retention of sun-lounge extension to the South East gable of existing dwelling.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 16/7048

• 28 Jun 2016Unconditional

  Construction of a dwelling, foul water treatment system, garage, site entrance and associated site works - Extension of Duration of Permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 11/5002

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 16/5593

• 27 Mar 2012Conditional

  Retention of basement garage, snooker room and car-port to existing dwelling

  Retention · Cork County Council, 12/4590

• 9 Aug 2011Incompleted application

  Retention of basement garage, snooker room and car-port to existing dwelling

  Retention · Cork County Council, 11/5706

• 11 May 2011Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling, foul water treatment system, garage, site entrance and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5002

• 17 Feb 2010Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse, garage, site entrance, foul water treatment system and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4324

• 21 Apr 2009Conditional

  Construction of single storey extension to dwelling, new access drive, new entrance off public road, new septic tank and percolation area, decommissioning of existing septic tank on extended site area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5245

• 11 Feb 2009Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and percolation area, entrance, site boundary treatments and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4415

• 9 Jan 2009Refused

  Construction of single storey extension to existing dwelling, access drive and new entrance, installation of septic tank and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4029

• 3 Dec 2008Incompleted application

  Single storey extension to existing dwelling, new entrance & access drive off the public road, replacement of existing septic tank with new septic tank & percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9944

• 9 Jul 2008Refused

  Dwelling, garage & septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7755

The 25 most recent of 44 applications.

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 Coole Upper.

Recorded monuments

• CO036-019001 Country house
  Description

  Mid 18th century house built by Henry Peard (Bence-Jones 1978, 90); overlooking church (CO036-01902-) to SE. Five-bay; 2-storey over basement; central 3-bay breakfront. Central doorway with fanlight; central round-headed 1st floor window. Shouldered architrave around sash windows. Random rubble sandstone construction with rusticated limestone quoins. Hipped roof with well a 19th century alteration. Attributed to Davis Duckart (Glin 1967, 738). 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

• CO036-019002 Church
  Description

  In level pasture. Remains of a rectangular church (11.3m E-W; 4.76m N-S), built of roughly-coursed sandstone blocks. Little is known of the church history (Power 1919, 53-4), though it was probably associated with an early monastery founded by St Abban (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 378) in the 6th century, and with another, larger church with antae and a 13th-century chancel located c. 150m to the NNW (CO036-01904-). They are both located within the grounds of an 18th-century country house (CO036-019001-), as is a holy well (CO036-019005-). Leask (1941) considered the remains 11th century in date but Harbison (1992, 75) dated it to the 12th or 13th century. The E gable (H c. 4m) is missing point and edges. In the 19th century, the structure had been in poor condition for some time (Windele 1898, 60). Leask (ibid, 80) describes 'a large mass of stones filling the west end of the ruin, and a strong thicket of elders the rest'; earlier Power (1919, 47) reported that 'the NE corner has been recently despoiled of its well-dressed quoins', and the W gable could only be fixed approximately, while the foundations of the N and S walls were traceable. Based on these and further evidence found on the site, the OPW rebuilt the N and S walls (to H 1m) and extended them, rebuilding the W wall (H 1m) 2.8m further to the W. A stile was inserted in the centre of the W wall, and on inspection the interior was level and grassed over. Antae (projecting 0.3m; surviving to max. H 1.4m) project from the E ends of the N and S walls. The foundation courses of walls project over c. 8m from the S end of the W wall, and over c. 1.8m from the N end of the E wall. In the E gable (H c. 4m) is a window, slightly off-centre to the S, built of cut sandstones. It has a narrow (max. Wth 0.54m; H 1.2m) embrasure with a triangular-shaped head and slightly inclined jambs, and a triangular-headed light with slight shoulder, rebated all around on the outside edge. Its external embrasure was partially blocked up, so it appears as a narrow rectangular opening (H 0.54m; Wth 0.14m). Inside the window is a repaired stone altar; Power (ibid) suggests the church was 'used as a place of worship in the penal days'. A low earthen bank is visible in pastureland c. 60-70m N of the church, curving NW to ENE; the ENE end is cut by the narrow valley of a former stream bed running NW-SE. This is a National Monument in State Guardianship (no. 395) 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 Date of last revision: 16 August 2023 Photographs attached CO036-019002-_01: View of the remains from SE, with 18th-century country house beyond. CO036-019002-_02: View of the remains from N. CO036-019002-_03: View of the remains from SW. CO036-019002-_04: Interior of the church and E gable CO036-019002-_05: E gable from W. CO036-019002-_06: E gable from E.

• CO036-019003 Graveyard
  Description

  On W side of road, overlooking ruined church (CO036-01902-) 150m to SSE. Sub-rectangular area (c. 40m E-W; c. 60m N-S) enclosed by stone-faced earthen bank. Most inscribed headstones in uneven overgrown area to S of centrally-placed ruined parish church of Coole (CO036-01904-); earliest noted headstones date to 1780s. Still in use; recently a new entrance from road inserted to NE and area to N and W of church levelled by machine. 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

• CO036-019004 Church
  Description

  In the centre of a graveyard (CO036-01903-). The ruins of the parish church of Coole consist of a nave (int. 10.7m E-W; 7.5m N-S) and chancel (int. 6.6m E-W; 5.6m N-S). According to the Ordnance Survey Field Books the church was associated with the Knights Templar but Power (1919, 53-4) found no evidence to support this and it is not listed by Gwynn and Hadcock (1988). It is associated with an early foundation by St Abban, a 5th or 6th-century saint, as is a second ruined church (CO036-01902-) 150m to the SSW. They were both located within the grounds of an 18th-century country house (CO036-019001-), as is a holy well (CO036-019005-). The nave contains the core of a Romanesque church with antae; the chancel was added, probably in the 13th century (O’Keeffe 1994, 134). By 1615 the nave was in ruins but the chancel was in repair (Power ibid, 51); the entire church was in ruins by 1694 (Brady 1863 vol. 2, 171) and probably never subsequently repaired. The N and S walls of the nave are poorly preserved and the W wall shows much evidence of rebuilding. The antae is preserved/rebuilt at the W end of the N wall (to H c. 3m) of the nave and Power's plan (Power ibid, 50) shows antae at the E end of the N and S walls, now ruinous. In the centre of the W wall the lowest jambs of the door are preserved with broad roll moulding (the wall is rebuilt from this level upwards). A window was inserted in the W wall, now much ruined, though it appears to have been ogee-headed. There is no trace of antae at the W end of the S wall but this corner is much rebuilt. There is a doorway inserted near the W end of the S wall of which only the sides survive (the porch shown outside this on Power's plan is all but gone). The chancel is an addition; the side walls abut the E wall of the earlier structure, just inside the projecting antae. A pointed chancel arch (Wth 1.95m) was inserted in place of the original E window; the arch is framed by a shallow rectangular projection on both wall faces. A similar projection frames the narrow lintelled doorway (Wth 0.56m) near the W end of the S wall in the chancel, which has a pointed arch with external chamfer. The single-light slit window in the S wall is missing its W side. There are ruinous wall-presses opposite each other near the E ends of the N and S walls. The central E window is an ogee-headed two-light, a late medieval insertion with a lintelled embrasure (the rear lintel is gone), and the central mullion missing. A noticeable base batter on the E wall of the chancel was probably built in response to falling ground level. Surviving walls are in poor structural state. High up on the E gable is a rosette carved in relief, with parallels at Cormac's Chapel, Cashel, and St Cronan's, Roscrea, as noted by O'Keeffe (ibid, 132 & 134), who suggests a date of c. 1130 for it. According to O’Keeffe ‘it is clearly not in original position but is one of a number of architectural fragments incorporated in the wall’. Other fragments, Romanesque in style, can be seen in the internal face of the W gable and within the remains of the N wall (see photographs attached). This is a National Monument in State Guardianship (no. 395). 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. Photographs attached CO036-019004-_01: View of the remains from NE. CO036-019004-_02: View of the remains from S. CO036-019004-_03: View of nave, from NW. CO036-019004-_04: View of W gable, from W. CO036-019004-_05: Romanesque door jamb with roll moulding, W wall. CO036-019004-_06: Inscribed stone, N wall of nave, from E. CO036-019004-_07: Architectural fragment affixed on the N wall of nave, from E. CO036-019004-_08: Architectural fragment inserted within W wall of nave, from E. CO036-019004-_09: Architectural fragment on top of N wall of nave, from N. CO036-019004-_10: Architectural fragments inserted within W wall of nave, from E. CO036-019004-_11: E wall of nave from W, with chancel arch centrally placed. CO036-019004-_12: Doorway in S wall of chancel, from S. CO036-019004-_13: E window in chancel, from W. CO036-019004-_14: Romanesque carving of rosette, inserted in the external face of the chancel’s E gable, from E. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 Date of last revision: 17 August 2023

• CO036-019005 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In woodland, within small enclosure. Oval-shaped, clochán-type structure covers well; opening at S; concrete grotto on roof contains offerings. Runoff joins stream to SSE through lintelled channel; one of these possible grave slab. Concrete blocks set around base of structure. In occasional use. Coole abbey (CO036-01904-) to W; church (CO036-01902-) to SW. 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 Images provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/

• CO036-020 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Found during construction of Cork-Dublin gas pipeline (1981-2). 'Rectangular spread (85cm x 60cm x 20cm deep). Small spread of prehistoric pottery (?) in fill'. (Cleary et al 1987, 8). 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

• CO036-022 Hearth
  Description

  Found during construction of Cork-Dublin gas pipeline (1981-82). Possible hearth site 'destroyed before excavation'. (Cleary et al 1987, 8) 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

• CO036-043 Enclosure
  Description

  Indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m). Area inaccessible due to overgrowth. No local knowledge of enclosure. 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

• CO036-044 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as dotted circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m). No visible surface trace. 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

• CO036-056 Church
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Coolagown Church, church/chapel, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding T-plan gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built c. 1820, facing east, having shallow breakfront having bellcote, two-bay nave elevations, and recent single-storey extension to west. Pitched slate roof with carved limestone cross finials to transept gables and painted rendered copings and pinnacles to gable-front. Painted rendered walls with render eaves course, render quoins to gable-front, and plinth course. Snecked dressed sandstone walls and limestone quoins to breakfront. Heavy render string course to middle of gable-front. Pointed arch openings to nave and transepts, with stained-glass windows and painted stone sills. Pointed arch niches with carved limestone holy water stoups to gable-front, set into render surrounds having cross motifs. Double lancet window to upper gable-front with chamfered limestone block and start surround having quatrefoil motif to spandrel, carved limestone hood-moulding and cut limestone voussoirs. Pointed arch door opening with carved limestone hood-moulding, limestone block and start surround and timber panelled double-leaf doors. Limestone open-work bellcote surmounted by carved limestone cross finial and having bell. Elaborate carved timber tripartite backdrop to altar, comprising ogee-arched pediment to centre and flat arches to sides, latter having pointed arch doorways with elaborately carved timber panelled doors, each part of backdrop being supported on clustered columns and engaged columns, with ornate entablature. Painting of Last Supper to wall above plain timber altar. Internal porch to east end of building having half-glazed timber panelled doors with stained glass and stained-glass overlights. Square-profile panelled limestone piers to road boundary, with plinths, carved caps and decorative cast-iron double-leaf gates, set to painted roughcast rendered walls with render copings and plinths.

• Coole Abbey, house, 1760–1770 · National interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built 1765, having shallow three-bay breakfront and three-bay side elevations. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves and rendered chimneystacks. Coursed rubble limestone walls to front elevation and basement levels, roughcast rendered elsewhere. Breakfront has rusticated limestone Ionic-style pilaster quoins to ends and flanking openings. Cut limestone quoins to corners of front elevation and moulded limestone plinth to basement level. Timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills throughout, mainly square-headed and having six-over-six pane windows to first floor and nine-over-six pane to ground floor. Carved kneed and shouldered limestone surrounds to front elevation, ground floor of breakfront having Greek key motif to lintels. Round-headed window to upper breakfront, flanked by square-headed windows, and having moulded imposts, moulded limestone archivolt with keystone, and spoked fanlight. Segmental-headed window openings to basement level having cut limestone voussoirs and keystones with double timber casement eight-pane windows. Carved limestone cornice between upper floors of breakfront, with mutules, having triglyphs below. Entrance comprising channelled limestone surround with carved limestone Doric-style pilasters flanking square-headed door opening with decorative overlight incorporating cobweb fanlight, and timber panelled double-leaf door, approached by flight of moulded limestone steps with cast-iron railings. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to east having pitched slate roof, coursed rubble limestone walls with cut limestone quoins, segmental-headed blind recesses and round-arched vehicular entrance, all with cut limestone voussoirs. Remains of Coole Abbey to site. Road entrance comprises square-profile cut limestone piers with plinths, carved caps and double-leaf cast-iron gates and pedestrian gates, set in coursed rubble limestone walls with limestone coping and plinth course terminating in second pair of piers.

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

At the centre of the townland of Coole Upper, 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 Upper.

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.

No address of the register names Coole Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Coole Upper · An Chúil Uachtarach

Area

2,209,518 m² (220.95 ha, 545.98 acres)

Civil parish

Coole, and its townlands

Barony

Barrymore

Electoral division

Coole, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,210 people lived in 405 households in the Coole electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coole Lower, Glenarousk, Kilmagner, Knockdromaclogh, Towermore Upper

Placenames

Coole Upper 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.