Coolroe West
Coolroe West is a townland in the civil parish of Inchigeelagh, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Chúil Rua Thiar.
- Area
- 42.5 ha
- 105 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 8,118 m² (0.81 ha, 2.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolroe West, from 3,752 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres) to 282,613 m² (28.26 ha, 69.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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 West 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
28 Feb 2020Unconditional
Construction of a new dwelling and detached garage, treatment system, domestic entrance and all associated site works.Extension of Duration of Permission granted under Planning Reference:15/0404
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 20/4415
2 Jun 2017Conditional
Retention of domestic garage
Retention · Cork County Council, 17/346
23 May 2017Incompleted application
Retention of domestic garage
Retention · Cork County Council, 17/312
29 Apr 2016Conditional
Ten year permission to construct an underground electricity cable. The proposed underground electricity cable will be 38kV, will run predominantly within the public road corridor and is intended to connect the proposed Shehy More Wind Farm (Pl. Ref. 13/551, An Bord Pleanála PL04. 243486) to the National Grid via either the permitted substation at Garranareagh (Pl. Ref. 11/6605, An Bord Pleanála PL04.219620) or the currently proposed substation at Barnadivane (Kneeves) (Pl. Ref. 14/557, An Bord Pleanála PL04.244439). At time of lodging this application the proposed Shehy More Wind Farm and proposed substation at Barnadivane (Kneeves) remain under appeal with An Bord Pleanála.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/256
15 Jul 2015Conditional
Construction of a new dwelling and detached garage, treatment system, domestic entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/404
30 Jun 2015Incompleted application
The construction of a new dwelling and detached garage, a treatment system , a domestic entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/377
2 Dec 2008Conditional
Construction of two storey dwelling with attached domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/2124
5 Nov 2008Incompleted application
Construction of two storey dwelling with attached domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1983
5 Dec 2007Withdrawn
Construction of two storey dwelling and domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/3026
9 Nov 2007Incompleted application
Construction of two storey dwelling and domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2826
1 Aug 2001New application
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/4394
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 Coolroe West.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolroe West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolroe West.
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 West, 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 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 West.
- 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 West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Coolroe West · An Chúil Rua Thiar
- Area
- 425,072 m² (42.51 ha, 105.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inchigeelagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Bealock, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 279 people lived in 103 households in the Bealock electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cooragreenane, Curraheen, Gortnahoughtee
- Placenames
- Coolroe West 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.