# Coolback, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Cúl Baic. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 537,299 m² (53.73 ha, 132.77 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,194 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Clondavaddog, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clondavaddog.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Greenfort, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 359 people lived in 134 households in the Greenfort electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 57% 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/15876 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50700 - Centre: latitude 55.230307, longitude -7.691445 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolback, from 2 m² to 209,429 m² (20.94 ha, 51.75 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1391684: 209,429 m² (20.94 ha, 51.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391684.md - Parcel 1361489: 52,857 m² (5.29 ha, 13.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361489.md - Parcel 1305801: 42,620 m² (4.26 ha, 10.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305801.md - Parcel 1419389: 34,684 m² (3.47 ha, 8.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419389.md - Parcel 1332194: 23,230 m² (2.32 ha, 5.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332194.md - Parcel 1310203: 18,862 m² (1.89 ha, 4.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310203.md - Parcel 5298750: 15,076 m² (1.51 ha, 3.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5298750.md - Parcel 1392307: 13,807 m² (1.38 ha, 3.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392307.md - Parcel 1409175: 9,828 m² (0.98 ha, 2.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409175.md - Parcel 5298738: 9,387 m² (0.94 ha, 2.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5298738.md - Parcel 1372291: 9,138 m² (0.91 ha, 2.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372291.md - Parcel 5298721: 8,644 m² (0.86 ha, 2.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5298721.md - Parcel 1366916: 8,305 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366916.md - Parcel 1331330: 7,625 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331330.md - Parcel 1343880: 7,076 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343880.md - Parcel 1400119: 5,609 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400119.md - Parcel 5152625: 4,110 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5152625.md - Parcel 4751092: 3,707 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4751092.md - Parcel 1427717: 2,702 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427717.md - Parcel 1415215: 2,508 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1415215.md - Parcel 1376908: 1,879 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376908.md - Parcel 4745927: 1,528 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4745927.md - Parcel 5298722: 1,358 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5298722.md - Parcel 5108797: 938 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5108797.md - Parcel 5152602: 894 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5152602.md - Parcel 4906770: 728 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4906770.md - Parcel 5152600: 342 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5152600.md - Parcel 1339556: 313 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339556.md - Parcel 5298692: 213 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5298692.md - Parcel 5152601: 158 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5152601.md - Parcel 5598432: 147 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5598432.md - Parcel 1315522: 108 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315522.md - Parcel 5108795: 89 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5108795.md - Parcel 5108796: 55 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5108796.md - Parcel 5108798: 34 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5108798.md - Parcel 5598433: 14 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5598433.md - Parcel 5108802: 11 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5108802.md - Parcel 5108800: 4 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5108800.md - Parcel 5108794: 3 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5108794.md - Parcel 5298695: 2 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5298695.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Coolback 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) 1 application, newest first. - 6 Dec 2023, Donegal County Council 2351875: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351875/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Kindrum Lough SAC, site code 001151, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001151 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kindrum Lough, site code 001151 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolback. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Fanad Patriots Monument, monument, 1955–1965, Regional interest, registry number 40900814, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40900814. Freestanding sculpted limestone memorial cross, erected 1960, comprising Celtic cross on plinth over stepped base, latter with inscription to front panel and having concrete bollards and chain to perimeter. Inscription reads "Erected to the Memory of the Three Fanad Patriots Neil Shield Doughmore Michael Heraghty Tullyconnell Michael McElwee Ballywhoriskey who by their heroism in Cratlagh-Wood on the morning of April 2nd 1878 ended the tyranny of landlordism". Set overlooking Loch Chionn Droma [Kindrum Lough]. ## 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 Coolback, about 1 in 5 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 Coolback. - 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/coolback.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/coolback.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/coolback.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Coolback 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) - Carrowkeel Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrowkeel-glebe.md - Fanavolty: https://everytownland.com/donegal/fanavolty.md - Kindrum: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kindrum.md - Kinnalough: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kinnalough.md - Toome: https://everytownland.com/donegal/toome-52542.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/coolback - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/coolback