Coolroe Beg
Coolroe Beg is a townland in the civil parish of Clonmeen, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Chúil Rua Bheag.
- Area
- 158.1 ha
- 391 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 27,132 m² (2.71 ha, 6.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolroe Beg, from 240 m² to 292,975 m² (29.3 ha, 72.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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 Coolroe Beg 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
14 Jun 2024Conditional
Permission to construct a new dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5118
1 Mar 2011Conditional
Retention of alterations and conversion of existing outhouse for use as extension to existing dwelling
Retention · Cork County Council, 11/4386
21 May 2009Withdrawn
Construction of 2 no. single storey extensions to existing dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5647
26 Jun 2007Conditional
Construction of an extension to milking parlour and a machinery and fodder store
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8994
31 Oct 2006Conditional
Construction of overground steel slurry storage tank and extension to calf house
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11853
28 Oct 2005Conditional
Retention of alterations and extension to dwelling and retention of studio and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7959
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
- CO040-025 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, on N bank of Glen River. Horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (Wth 16.1m; L 19.6m; H 0.5m); opening (Wth 6.2m) faces E. 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 Coolroe Beg.
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 Coolroe Beg, 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 high, 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 Coolroe Beg.
- 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 Coolroe Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Coolroe Beg · An Chúil Rua Bheag
- Area
- 1,581,047 m² (158.1 ha, 390.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonmeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Clonmeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 291 people lived in 108 households in the Clonmeen electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolroe More, Duinch, Fermoyle, Killavoy, Shronebeha
- Placenames
- Coolroe Beg 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.