Coolacloy
Coolacloy is a townland in the civil parish of Omey, barony of Ballynahinch, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Cúl an Chlaí.
- Area
- 51.8 ha
- 128 acres
- Land parcels
- 48
- registered freehold, median 4,697 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolacloy, from 5 m² to 81,844 m² (8.18 ha, 20.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 3 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coolacloy 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
12 May 2022N/a
to construct a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and polishing filter, vehicular access as well as all ancillary site works and site services. Gross floor area of proposed works: 158.90 sqm (dwelling house)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260476
26 Aug 2021Conditional
to 1) demolish existing rear/side elevation porch 2) construct new single storey rear/side elevation extensions 3) proposed external and internal alterations 4) replace existing septic tank and percolation area with new treatment system with polishing filter area as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 16.88 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 100.12 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 1.8 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211541
5 Aug 2021Refused
construct a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system, polishing filter, vehicular access as well as all ancillary site works and site services. Gross floor space of proposed works 158.93sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211437
5 Jul 2018Conditional
to (1) retain alterations to existing dwelling house (2) demolish part of the existing rear elevation to the existing dwelling house and construct a new single storey rear extension (3) change of roof design on the existing front elevation porch (4) proposed external and internal alterations (5) replace existing septic tank and percolation area with new treatment system with polishing filter area as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 23.00sqm, Gross floor space of work to be retained 91.35sqm, Gross floor space of any demolition work 11.64sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18926
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: Kingstown Bay SAC 002265
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolacloy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolacloy.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Coolacloy, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolacloy.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Coolacloy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Coolacloy · Cúl an Chlaí
- Area
- 518,445 m² (51.84 ha, 128.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Omey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballynahinch
- Electoral division
- Clifden, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,059 people lived in 796 households in the Clifden electoral division. 60% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Knockbaun
- Placenames
- Coolacloy 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.