Coolnagour
Coolnagour is a townland in the civil parish of Kilbolane, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cúil na nGabhar.
- Area
- 92.7 ha
- 229 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 974 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolnagour, from 139 m² to 408,432 m² (40.84 ha, 100.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Coolnagour 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
13 Jul 2026Grant with conditions
Planning permission for: (a) retention of a detached single storey shed and permission for alterations to the external façade to include new external cladding, (b) construction of new single storey extensions to both the front and rear of the existing single storey dwelling, (c) minor alterations to the fenestration of the existing Northern, Western and Eastern Elevations of the existing single storey dwelling, (d) construction of a new detached domestic garage, (e) widening of the existing vehicular entrance and (f) installation of a new wastewater treatment unit complete with infiltration/treatment area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1868
17 Jun 2026Invalid - prepare letters
Permission for: (a) retention of a detached single storey shed together with alterations to the external façade to include new external cladding, (b) construction of new single storey extensions to both the front and rear of the existing single storey dwelling, (c) minor alterations to the fenestration of the existing Northern, Western and Eastern elevations of the existing single storey dwelling, (d) construction of a new detached domestic garage, (e) widening of the existing vehicular entrance and (f) installation of a new wastewater treatment unit complete with infiltration/treatment area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1612
13 Feb 2026Application withdrawn
Permission to:- (a) Construct new single storey extensions to both the front and rear of existing single storey dwelling, (b) Minor alterations to fenestration of the existing northern, western and eastern elevations, (c) Construction of a new detached domestic garage, (d) Widen existing vehicular entrance and (e) Install a new wastewater treatment unit complete with infiltration/treatment area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0341
17 Apr 2025Conditional
Permission to a) construct a new dwelling house with adjoining covered carport, b) install a new bored well and c) construct a new vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4723
8 Mar 2021Conditional
demolition of the existing house and stable and planning permission for a new replacement dwelling house, effluent treatment system, polishing filter and retention permission for the construction of an independent living unit and planning permission to complete the independent living unit and link connection to the new dwelling and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 21275
8 Dec 2020N/a
an independent living unit and planning permission to complete the same independent living unit and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201299
30 Jul 2018Conditional
The construction of 131m of 2.4m high Palisade Fencing around the South, East and West perimeter of the site and the installation of one manually operated lockable gate suited to match the perimeter fencing.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6005
10 Apr 2018Incompleted application
Construction of 137m of 2.4m high Palisade Fencing around the South, East, and West perimeter of the site and the installation of one manually operated lockable gate suited to match the perimeter fencing.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4880
5 Jul 2017Conditional
to renovate and extend an existing dwelling house and all associated site works and installation of wastewater treatment system and polishing filter
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17641
9 Jun 2014Conditional
Construction of extension to side of dwellinghouse and replacement of flat roof of existing rear extension with a new ‘A’ roof
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5223
27 Apr 2011Refused
Construct a one and a half storey dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, connect to existing public sewer, relocate existing boundary to west of proposed site and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4885
30 Mar 2011Incompleted application
Construct a one and a half storey dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, connect to existing public sewer, relocate existing boundary to west of proposed site and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4649
16 Jun 2010Withdrawn
One-and-a-half storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, relocation of existing boundary to west of proposed site, & all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5489
10 Feb 2010Incompleted application
One-and-a-half-storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, connection to public sewer and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4249
12 Aug 2009Incompleted application
One-and-a-half storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, connection to existing public sewer and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6696
19 Feb 2008Conditional
Construction of pitched roof and extension to existing tennis clubhouse, boundary wall and erection of floodlights
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4843
2 May 2006Conditional
Extensions to dwellinghouse, ramp and demolition of garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6780
16 Feb 2006Conditional
Slatted beef house
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4860
10 Aug 2004Conditional
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6086
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 Coolnagour.
Recorded monuments
- CO001-008 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured roughly oval raised area on 1904 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Oval area (54.5m E-W; 40.5m N-S) defined by low earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; max. ext. H 0.85m) N->S; low rise elsewhere. Road boundary skirts bank N->ESE, following line of external fosse. At SE, where road bends away from enclosure, external fosse (D 0.3m) survives. 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
- CO001-009 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle SW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; hachured as circular raised area (diam. c. 30m), surrounded by second external scarp (diam. c. 45m) topped by field boundary SSE->NW on 1904 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; arc (C 44m) formed by earthen bank (int. H 1m) survives S->N with shallow external fosse (max. D 0.2m). Bank heavily overgrown and incorporated into surrounding field fence system. 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
- Hardingville House, country house, 1770–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1790, having two-bay end elevations, lower two-storey and single-storey lean-to extensions to rear and lean-to porch to entrance. Now disused. Skirt slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks, eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered stone walls. Camber-headed window openings with tooled cut limestone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Various fixed and timber sliding sash windows to rear. Square-headed door opening to porch having timber battened door. Round-headed door opening to porch interior, having replacement timber battened door, and spoked fanlight. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to north-west, in use as house, with pitched artificial slate roof, uPVC rainwater goods and roughly coursed rubble limestone walls with tooled cut limestone quoins and red brick voussoirs to segmental-headed carriage entrance and square-headed door and window openings, all having replacement doors and windows. Rendered piers and boundary walls to site having cut limestone caps and coping. Entrance to road comprises rendered curing walls with channelled rendered inner and outer piers with caps, and with wrought-iron pedestrian gate and recent metal vehicular gate.
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 Coolnagour, about 1 in 10 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_699 (ZIP).
- 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 Coolnagour with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Coolnagour · Cúil na nGabhar
- Area
- 927,224 m² (92.72 ha, 229.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbolane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Electoral division
- Milford, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 692 people lived in 248 households in the Milford electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloncrew (Co. Limerick), Doony, Gardenfield South (Co. Limerick), Gortaheeda, Gorteens (Co. Limerick), Moanavraca, Scart
- Placenames
- Coolnagour 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.