# Cool Lower, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrenan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,513,082 m² (251.31 ha, 621 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 18,605 m² (1.86 ha, 4.6 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmacrenan, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/kilmacrenan.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Cranford, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15754 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50690 - Centre: latitude 55.120488, longitude -7.738114 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cool Lower, from 82 m² to 1,594,038 m² (159.4 ha, 393.9 acres); 45 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1426392: 1,594,038 m² (159.4 ha, 393.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426392.md - Parcel 1369501: 298,584 m² (29.86 ha, 73.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369501.md - Parcel 1301808: 108,728 m² (10.87 ha, 26.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301808.md - Parcel 1522645: 69,520 m² (6.95 ha, 17.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1522645.md - Parcel 1357445: 60,820 m² (6.08 ha, 15.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357445.md - Parcel 1417788: 52,592 m² (5.26 ha, 13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417788.md - Parcel 1383034: 41,396 m² (4.14 ha, 10.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1383034.md - Parcel 1417357: 40,093 m² (4.01 ha, 9.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417357.md - Parcel 1380656: 36,865 m² (3.69 ha, 9.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380656.md - Parcel 1378782: 34,788 m² (3.48 ha, 8.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378782.md - Parcel 1329976: 24,705 m² (2.47 ha, 6.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329976.md - Parcel 1394173: 21,597 m² (2.16 ha, 5.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394173.md - Parcel 1395578: 15,613 m² (1.56 ha, 3.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395578.md - Parcel 5324931: 12,379 m² (1.24 ha, 3.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5324931.md - Parcel 1339655: 10,015 m² (1 ha, 2.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339655.md - Parcel 4556832: 7,508 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4556832.md - Parcel 6111969: 5,589 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6111969.md - Parcel 1376768: 5,009 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376768.md - Parcel 1315416: 4,806 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315416.md - Parcel 5198153: 3,938 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5198153.md - Parcel 4871230: 2,611 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4871230.md - Parcel 1407895: 2,088 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407895.md - Parcel 1328967: 779 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328967.md - Parcel 3662089: 82 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662089.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 25 Mar 2019, Donegal County Council 1950411: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND SEPTIC TANK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950411/0 - 5 Feb 2018, Donegal County Council 1850128: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF 233M OF 2.4M HIGH PALLISADE FENCING AROUND THE SITE PERIMETER AND THE INSTALLATION OF ONE MANUALLY OPERATED LOCKABLE GATE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850128/0 - 25 Jan 2018, Donegal County Council 1850073: N/a. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF 233M OF 2.4 HIGH PALISADE FENCING AROUND THE SITE PERIMETER AND THE INSTALLATION OF ONE MANUALLY OPERATED LOCKABLE GATE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850073/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cool Lower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cool Lower. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cool Lower. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cool-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cool-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cool-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carmoney: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carmoney.md - Cool Upper: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cool-upper.md - Cratlagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cratlagh.md - Drummacaladdery: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drummacaladdery.md - Highglen: https://everytownland.com/donegal/highglen.md - Islandroy Barr or Drumfin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/islandroy-barr-or-drumfin.md - Woodquarter: https://everytownland.com/donegal/woodquarter.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cool-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/cool-lower