Coolgreen
Coolgreen is a townland in the civil parish of Templeusque, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cúilín Uaithne.
- Area
- 194.7 ha
- 481 acres
- Land parcels
- 57
- registered freehold, median 3,787 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 29
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolgreen, from 24 m² to 306,159 m² (30.62 ha, 75.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Coolgreen 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
1 May 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for the construction of new dwellinghouse and domestic garage, new entrance, wastewater treatment system together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1140
23 Apr 2025Conditional
Retention permission for 1) Boiler house to rear of existing dwelling. 2) Kitchen extension to rear of existing dwelling. 3) Additional rooflights. 4) Side extension. 5) Change to roof over existing sunroom. 6) Alterations to windows. 7) Sunroom to rear of existing dwelling. 8) Shed adjacent to existing garage. All to the existing dwelling granted under planning reference 90/3940.
Retention · Cork County Council, 25/4753
1 Apr 2025Incompleted application
1) Boiler house to rear of existing dwelling. 2) Kitchen extension to rear of existing dwelling. 3) Additional rooflights. 4) Side extension. 5) Change to roof over existing sunroom. 6) Alterations to windows. 7) Sunroom to rear of existing dwelling. 8) Shed adjacent to existing garage. All to the existing dwelling under planning reference 99/4402.
Retention · Cork County Council, 25/4565
3 Dec 2024Conditional permission
Permission for retention of ground and first floor extensions to dwelling
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 24/6280
20 Sept 2024Conditional
Permission to construct a dwelling house, on-site waste water treatment unit and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5790
8 Feb 2023Conditional
To construct a cattle underpass with effluent tank and ancillary works on a public road
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4187
4 Feb 2022Conditional
Permission to construct a dwelling house and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4216
2 Nov 2016Conditional
The construction of a dwelling and detached garage with associated site works including a wastewater treatment system and new vehicular entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6744
11 Apr 2014Conditional
Alterations and extension to the existing dormer bungalow dwelling house to include construction of new single storey extension to the south side, alterations to the rear and north side elevations, internal alterations, solar panels to the rear, new wastewater treatment plant and percolation area, together with associated site and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4738
9 Apr 2010Conditional
Modifications to the existing conservatory to dwellinghouse (including increase in size and a slate roof)
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4840
23 Mar 2010Incompleted application
Modifications to existing conservatory (including slate roof & increase in size)
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4646
17 Feb 2010Conditional
Construction of a single storey dwellinghouse with solar panels to south facing roof, garage, site entrance and access driveway, septic tank, percolation area and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4317
26 Jan 2010Incompleted application
Single storey dwelling with solar panels to south facing roof, garage, septic tank, percolation area, site entrance, access driveway and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4122
24 Jun 2009Conditional
Bungalow, septic tank & double garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6065
11 May 2009Withdrawn
Bungalow, double garage & septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5502
30 Dec 2008Conditional
Retention of conservatory to side of dwelling & 4no. dormer windows to front elevation
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10393
11 Nov 2008Refused
Detached dormer dwelling and biocycle unit
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/9642
25 Jun 2008Conditional
Storey and a half dwelling, garage & wastewater treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7482
6 Dec 2007Conditional
Alterations and extensions to dwellinghouse to include single storey extension to side and rear and ground and dormer extension to side and construction of garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12896
11 Oct 2007Conditional
Two storey dwellinghouse and installation of treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11602
29 Jun 2007Conditional
Construction of overground slurry store, silage base and farmyard manure base
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9130
23 Apr 2007Conditional
Construction of livestock housing with 2 no. slatted tanks, concrete aprons, silage slab, 2 no. store houses and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7203
12 Apr 2007Incompleted application
Construction of livestock housing with 2 no. slatted tanks, concrete aprons, silage slab, 2 no. store houses and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6970
20 Oct 2006Conditional
Extension to dwelling and detached domestic workshop
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11632
4 Aug 2006Incompleted application
Extension to dwelling and construction of workshop
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9545
The 25 most recent of 29 applications.
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 Coolgreen.
Recorded monuments
- CO063-029 Ritual site - holy well
Description
In boggy ground, at side of farm track. Power (1923, 204) describes 'rather elaborate holy well....elaborately arched over and tended with some care; it is entered by a doorway, 6 feet by 4 feet. Rounds are made on August 15th and all during May. The pattern also is still kept, and there are votive offerings of the usual kind'. Sandstone surround visible at NW side; heavily overgrown. Numerous quartz pebbles scattered about. No longer in holy use. 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 Image provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolgreen.
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 Coolgreen, 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 Coolgreen.
- 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 Coolgreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Coolgreen · Cúilín Uaithne
- Area
- 1,946,885 m² (194.69 ha, 481.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templeusque, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Riverstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 822 people lived in 276 households in the Riverstown electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballindeenisk, Ballynamaddree, Ballynaparson, Ballyskerdane, Ballythomas, Templemichael, Templeusque
- Placenames
- Coolgreen 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.