Coolmore
Coolmore is a townland in the civil parish of Churchtown, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Chúil Mhór.
- Area
- 71.4 ha
- 176 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 21,928 m² (2.19 ha, 5.42 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolmore, from 1,537 m² to 176,767 m² (17.68 ha, 43.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Coolmore 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
5 Jul 2024Conditional
Permission to a) construct a new extension to the side/rear of existing dwelling, b) replace existing front door with a window, c) install 2 no. skylights to existing dwelling roof, d) construct a new detached domestic garage and e) install a new treatment unit, soil polishing filter/percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5265
17 Nov 2022Conditional
Demolition of existing dwelling house, construction of new dwelling house and conservatory and all external and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6573
24 Oct 2022Incompleted application
Demolition of existing dwelling house, construction of new dwelling house and conservatory, and all external and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6405
24 Feb 2022Conditional
Permission for retention of sheds (equipment stores, animal shelter, maintenance workshop) and associated farm structures and existing dwelling house. Permission for the construction of new domestic waste water treatment system and all external associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4395
14 Jan 2022Incompleted application
Retention of alterations and additions to existing sheds, outhouses and associated farm structures, and alterations to existing farm house, and proposed construction of new domestic waste water treatment system and all external and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4044
30 Mar 2009Conditional
Dwellinghouse, entrance and installation of wastewater treatment unit
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 09/4959
12 Aug 2008Refused
Dwellinghouse and installation of waste water treatment unit
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/8361
17 Sept 2007Conditional
One and a half storey extension and a porch type entrance, change of existing rooftiles to match slates on proposed extension
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11040
31 Aug 2007Incompleted application
Alterations and one and half storey extension and porch extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10662
28 Mar 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6507
15 Mar 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6069
9 Feb 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4654
13 Jan 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4111
24 Nov 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8648
10 Oct 2005Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse with stables and hay barn
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7372
7 Oct 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/7599
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 Coolmore.
Recorded monuments
- CO007-106 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps; hachured as circular area (diam. c. 25m) surrounded by fosse on 1936 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace of 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
- CO007-107 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 18m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 15m) on 1936 OS 6-inch map. Small, circular, grass-covered, raised area (19.50m E-W; 18.4m N-S, taken to outer limits); top level. According to local information, fosse once surrounded site but has been infilled. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolmore.
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 Coolmore, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolmore.
- 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 Coolmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Coolmore · An Chúil Mhór
- Area
- 714,077 m² (71.41 ha, 176.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Churchtown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Electoral division
- Churchtown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,286 people lived in 427 households in the Churchtown electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyvaheen, Carrigeen, Lackeen, Moyge
- Placenames
- Coolmore 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.