Coolatee
Townland in the civil parish of Clonleigh, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 68.6 ha
- 170 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 1,279 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolatee, from 142 m² to 233,703 m² (23.37 ha, 57.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Coolatee 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
21 Jun 2026N/a
ERECTION OF 660 PV SOLAR PANELS TO COVER A MAXIMUM AREA OF 1265M2 FOR PERSONAL CONSUMPTION TO BENEFIT THE EXISTING MEAT FACTORY ON SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THIS DEVELOPMENT IS COVERED BY THE PROVISIONS OF THE (RED III) RENEWABLE ENERGY DIRECTIVE III (DIRECTIVE (EU) 2023/2413)
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661140
19 Jun 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A NEW FREESTANDING MV ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION BUILDING CONSISTING OF A SUBSTATION AND ADJOINING SWITCH ROOM
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460919
2 Mar 2022Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) WETLAND (CW) TYPE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT (WWTP) FOR THE TREATMENT OF WASTEWATER FROM THE COOLATEE AGGLOMERATION COMPRISING OF A SEPTIC TANK AND FOUR TREATMENT PONDS (B) STORM WATER OVERFLOW CHAMBER (2) DEVELOPMENT OF (A) ACCESS ROAD (B) UNDERGROUND RAINWATER HARVESTING CHAMBER (3) ANCILLARY WORKS INCLUDING A STORAGE KIOSK AND FENCING ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250372
6 Jul 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851044
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: River Finn SAC 002301
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolatee.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolatee.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1958 (ZIP).
- 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 Coolatee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Coolatee
- Area
- 686,397 m² (68.64 ha, 169.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonleigh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Clonleigh North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clonleigh North electoral division: 1,429 people in 520 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Coolatee 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.