Cool Lower

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cool Lower, from 82 m² to 1,594,038 m² (159.4 ha, 393.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 45 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Cool Lower 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.

• 25 Mar 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950411

• 5 Feb 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 233M OF 2.4M HIGH PALLISADE FENCING AROUND THE SITE PERIMETER AND THE INSTALLATION OF ONE MANUALLY OPERATED LOCKABLE GATE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850128

• 25 Jan 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF 233M OF 2.4 HIGH PALISADE FENCING AROUND THE SITE PERIMETER AND THE INSTALLATION OF ONE MANUALLY OPERATED LOCKABLE GATE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850073

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 Cool Lower.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cool Lower.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cool Lower.

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

At the centre of the townland of Cool Lower, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Cool Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Cool Lower

Area

2,513,082 m² (251.31 ha, 621 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacrenan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Cranford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

610 people lived in 238 households in the Cranford electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carmoney, Cool Upper, Cratlagh, Drummacaladdery, Highglen, Islandroy Barr or Drumfin, Woodquarter

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Cool Lower 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.