Cool Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrenan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 214.4 ha
- 530 acres
- Land parcels
- 60
- registered freehold, median 10,744 m² (1.07 ha, 2.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cool Upper, from 658 m² to 1,202,560 m² (120.26 ha, 297.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cool Upper 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
9 Jul 2026Conditional
AGRICULTURAL BUILDING INCLUDING HORSE STABLES AND DOG KENNELS, AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661273
16 Dec 2025Conditional
(1) CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/50214 AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW VEHICULAR ACCESS TO THE SITE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562241
4 Jun 2025Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHED, CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560927
18 Dec 2024Conditional
DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE DWELLING HOUSE AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2462119
25 Jan 2022Conditional
MOBILE HOME AND PERMISSION FOR REFURBISHMENT OF DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250073
9 Nov 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152209
11 Feb 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150214
21 Jan 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150069
25 Mar 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950411
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 Cool Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cool Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cool Upper.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cool Upper.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Cool Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Cool Upper
- Area
- 2,143,735 m² (214.37 ha, 529.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacrenan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Cranford, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cranford electoral division: 610 people in 238 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cool Lower, Cratlagh, Woodquarter
- Placenames
- Cool Upper 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.