Coolnagearagh

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolnagearagh, from 12 m² to 319,191 m² (31.92 ha, 78.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Coolnagearagh 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.

• 1 May 2024Conditional

  Permission for new machinery storage shed to serve existing quarry and all associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4767

• 24 Apr 2023Conditional permission

  Permission to decommission the existing septic tank and percolation area. Permission is also sought to construct a dwelling house, install a new waste water treatment unit and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4781

• 17 Feb 2023Incompleted application

  Planning permission to decommission the existing septic tank and percolation area. Permission is also sought to construct a new dweeling house, install a new wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4273

• 29 Nov 2022Withdrawn

  Permission for development of lands previously used as a quarry for holiday and tourism use. Works include :- 1) removal of existing remaining quarrying material and equipment, 2) 34 x 2 bedroom Log cabins, 3) 31 x serviced motorhome parking bays, 4) 5 x serviced glamping pods within fenced enclosure, 5) single storey reception building and shop, 6) indoor play area and hall with café and mezzanine floor, 7) 2 Storey club house with bar/kitchen facilities with service yard, 8) single storey communal WC/shower facilities with service yard, 9) maintenance & storage shed, 10) internal road network connecting to existing site entrance and access roadway, 11) water pond to cater for bumper boat activities, 12) riverside walkway and internal paths, 13) wastewater treatment plant and sand polishing filter, 14) settlement ponds, 15) site landscaping and lighting, 16) on-site car parking, 17) all other site development and associated works. A Nature Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the application and the Natura Impact Statement will be available for inspection or purchase at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy during office hours at the office of the planning authority.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6650

• 27 Oct 2022Incompleted application

  Permission for development of lands formerly used as a quarry for holiday and tourism use. Works to include: 1) Removal of existing remaining quarrying material and equipment, 2) 34 x 2 bedroom log cabins, 3) 31 x serviced motorhome parking bays, 4) 5 x serviced glamping pods with fenced enclosure, 5) Single storey reception building and shop, 6) Indoor play area and hall with mezzanine floor, 7) 2 storey club house with bar/kitchen facilities with service yard, 8) Single storey communal WC/shower facilities with service yard, 9) Maintenance and storage shed, 10) Internal road network connecting to existing site entrance and access roadway, 11) Water pond to cater for bumper boat activities, 12) Riverside walkway and internal paths, 13) Wastewater treatment plant and sand polishing filter, 14) Settlement ponds, 15) Site landscaping and lighting, 16) On-site car parking, 17) All other site development and associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6432

• 6 May 2022Conditional

  A new site entrance from regional road R618, and access road into the property, primarily to accommodate heavy goods vehicles accessing Carhoo Quary and the permitted soil recovery site. The installation and use of a mobile wheel wash. The new entrance will require removal of roadside trees and shrubs to provide adequate sight lines: the erection of a 1.8m high security fence and gate, the planting of screen hedging and erection of signage.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5038

• 9 Nov 2020Conditional permission

  Permission for the development of a small-scale quarry with the extraction of rock using ripping and rock breaker and the on-site crushing and screening with mobile plant, and open storage of crushed rock. The installation and use of a mobile wheel wash and the continued use of the site access road, facility entrance from regional road R618, continued use of the existing weighbridge office, welfare facilities and existing septic tank and percolation area. The extraction of rock will extend to an area of 2.15 hectares. Following extraction, the site will be restored using stripped overburden, an eight-year quarry lifespan is sought.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6446

• 8 Oct 2020Incompleted application

  Permission for the development of a small-scale quarry at a former gravel pit. The development will consist of the extraction of rock using ripping and rock breaker and the on-site crushing and screening with mobile plant, and open storage of crushed rock. The installation and use of a mobile wheel wash and the continued use of the site access road, facility entrance from regional road R618, continued use of the existing weighbridge office, welfare facilities and existing septic tank and percolation area. The extraction of rock will extend to an area of 2.15 hectares. Following extraction, the site will be restored using stripped overburden, an eight-year quarry lifespan is sought.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6194

• 14 Oct 2019Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, effluent treatment system, new entrance and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6479

• 22 Dec 2017Conditional

  Construct a one and a half storey dwelling with proprietary domestic waste water treatment system, new site entrance with walls and piers and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/7462

• 10 Jul 2017Conditional

  Retention of conservatory at the side of dwelling

  Retention · Cork County Council, 17/5765

• 19 Jun 2017Incompleted application

  Retention of conservatory at the side of dwelling.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 17/5528

• 21 Mar 2012Conditional

  Demolition of 1no. dwellinghouse and construction of 1no. dwellinghouse and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4546

• 16 Sept 2011Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and effluent treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6001

• 8 May 2009Conditional

  Construction of 2 no. agricultural entrances

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5474

• 8 Apr 2009Incompleted application

  2 no. agricultural entrances

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5120

• 28 Feb 2007Conditional

  Extension to dwelling and construction of detached garage/store

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5486

• 23 Jun 2003Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/3045

• 8 May 2003Refused

  Dwellinghouse and waste water treatment system

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/2171

• 11 Feb 2003Conditional

  Granny flat extension to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/505

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 Coolnagearagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolnagearagh.

Architectural heritage

• Oakpark House, country house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gothic Revival crenellated wing comprising two-bay two-storey central block flanked by two-bay single-storey blocks, built c.1830, attached to U-plan three-bay two-storey house, rebuilt c.1930, following burning of original house, built c. 1750. Flat roof with rendered crenellated parapets. Roughcast rendered walls. Blind pointed arch window openings and square-headed openings with uPVC windows having render hood-mouldings. Rubble stone walled garden to west having segmental-arched entrance with dressed voussoirs. Two-stage crenellated folly tower to western wall, having rubble stone walls with cut stringcourse, crenellated battlements and blind round-headed openings to upper stage beneath render label mouldings. Round-profile rubble stone folly to south-west of site, with blind pointed arch openings. Square-profile cut limestone gated piers having cut capitals, flanking cast-iron gates and railings on cut limestone plinth walls. Multiple-bay single- and two-storey former gate lodge, now altered and extended to north-east.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolnagearagh.

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.

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

Name

Coolnagearagh · Cúil na gCaorach

Area

1,185,803 m² (118.58 ha, 293.02 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

Cappanagraun, Carhoo Lower, Carhoo Upper, Carrigadrohid, Carrigathou, Knockacroghera, Nettleville Demesne

Placenames

Coolnagearagh 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.