Coolkisha
Townland in the civil parish of Aghinagh, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork; in Irish Cúil Chise
- Area
- 120 ha
- 296 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 3,001 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolkisha, from 289 m² to 350,480 m² (35.05 ha, 86.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 · 1 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
19 Oct 2018Conditional
The construction of a dwelling and detached garage, a treatment system, a private well, a domestic entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6779
24 Sept 2018Incompleted application
The construction of a dwelling and detached garage, a treatment system, a private well, a domestic entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6525
3 Sept 2018Withdrawn
Construction of a new dwelling and detached garage, a treatment system, a domestic entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6320
30 Apr 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage, septic tank and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6432
7 Feb 2005Conditional
Domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/625
23 Jul 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5694
23 Jul 2004Conditional
Relocate septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5960
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gal 001067
Recorded monuments
- CO071-027 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture. Depicted as hachured circular area (diam c. 35m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; undulations mark area of site. According to Hartnett (1939, 99), surface indications showed that this was a single-ramparted oval fort (diam. 100ft N-S; 90ft E-W). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO071-028 Standing stone
Description
Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, on SW-facing slope. Stone (H 0.72m; 0.84m x 0.2m) is subrectangular in plan, long axis WNW-ESE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO071-029001 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture. Roughly circular area (diam. 31m) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2m) with traces of shallow external fosse. Field clearance stones dumped against outer bank face. Field boundary skirts enclosure to N. Possible souterrain (CO071-029002-) in interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO071-029002 Souterrain
Description
In ringfort (CO071-029001-). 'Name Books of 1844 Survey mention cave in one of the forts' (the other being CO071-027----). 'Suggestion of one at approx. centre -depression and hollow sound' (PJH). No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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 Coolkisha.
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 Coolkisha.
- 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 Coolkisha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Coolkisha · Cúil Chise
- Area
- 1,199,738 m² (119.97 ha, 296.46 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghinagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Electoral division
- Aghinagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Aghinagh electoral division: 518 people in 168 households; 90% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Curraghanearla, Deelish, Drombeg, Inchaleagh, Knockeenacuttin, Rusheen
- Placenames
- Coolkisha 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.