Coolboy Big
Townland in the civil parish of Conwal, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 141.6 ha
- 350 acres
- Land parcels
- 121
- registered freehold, median 2,856 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
121 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolboy Big, from 3 m² to 190,117 m² (19.01 ha, 46.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 Coolboy Big 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
16 Feb 2026N/a
(1) RETENTION OF TEMPORARY MOBILE HOME AND (2) ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2660206
12 Feb 2026N/a
RETENTION OF TEMPORARY MOBILE HOME AND ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660186
17 Dec 2025Conditional
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
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562259
5 Dec 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562155
27 Mar 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450096
28 Feb 2024Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING (DEFECTIVE/MICA) DWELLING HOUSE AND RECONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450067
31 May 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A SELF CONTAINED FLAT AUXILIARY TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING UPGRADING WORKS TO BE CARRIED OUT TO THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350773
24 Mar 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350380
10 Feb 2021Conditional
EXISTING FRUIT/VEGETABLE BUILDING AS BUILT AND PERMISSION FOR AN UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT HOLDING TANK WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150209
4 Nov 2020N/a
(1) CHANGE OF USE OF PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED DOMESTIC GARAGE (REF 04/7300) TO FRUIT/VEGETABLE PROCESSING BUILDING (2) FRUIT/VEGETABLE PROCESSING BUILDING AS BUILT (3) TWO NO. EXTENSIONS TO FRUIT/VEGETABLE PROCESSING BUILDING (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR INSTALLATION OF AN UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT HOLDING TANK
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051659
25 Oct 2019Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT TWO STOREY DWELLING ACCESSED VIA EXISTING LANEWAY WITH INSTALLATION OF NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951620
18 Sept 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A MACHINERY STORAGE SHED
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951428
8 Apr 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950473
18 Apr 2017Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED FOR THE STORAGE OF FARM MACHINERY AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 1750577
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 Coolboy Big.
Recorded monuments
- DG045-024 Rock art
Description
A reference to cupmarks cut on natural rock surfaces in this area could not be corroborated. It is an area of extensive rock outcrop covered by vegetation. (Kinahan 1889, 286) The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolboy Big.
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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolboy Big.
- 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 Coolboy Big with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Coolboy Big
- Area
- 1,415,650 m² (141.57 ha, 349.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Conwal, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Gortnavern, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gortnavern electoral division: 1,303 people in 443 households; 82% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykeeran, Bellanascaddan, Cashelgay, Coolboy Little, Ellistrin Big, Ellistrin Little, Gortnavern, Race End
- Placenames
- Coolboy Big 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.