Coolfowerbeg

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Coolfowerbeg, from 329,799 m² (32.98 ha, 81.5 acres) to 329,799 m² (32.98 ha, 81.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Coolfowerbeg 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.

• 12 Jan 2024Conditional

  for: 1. construction of single storey extensions to the existing house to accommodate special care needs / lifetime adaptable layout to include a hydrotherapy pool and rehab gym areas with amendments to the layout of the existing house including a lift installation; 2. an adjoining carport with covered walkway canopy; 3. a detached shed; 4. upgrade to the existing wastewater treatment plant servicing the development including all associated site services and landscaping. All off the above on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of proposed works: 219.2 sqm (extension) & 65 sqm (garage) & 34.43 sqm (car port). Gross floor space of any demolition: 15 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460027

• 25 Apr 2017Conditional

  and completion of an internal floor with associated supporting structure, and for closing existing openings with new doors and new window all at the Goods Store, Ballyglunin Train Station, which is a protected structure as defined by part IV of the 2000 Planning Development Act. (Gross floor space of works to be retained: 140 sqm.)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17568

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolfowerbeg.

Architectural heritage

• Ballyglunin Railway Station, railway station, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-storey railway station, built c.1860, having five-bay front elevation and eight-bay trackside elevation, with projecting entrance porch to south-west, canopy to platform, and single-storey extension to south-east. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with overhanging eaves having timber soffits, red brick chimneystacks, and replacement aluminium rainwater goods. Timber bargeboards to projecting porch gable. Corrugated-iron roof to canopy, supported on six round-plan cast-iron columns, with timber rafters having scrolled ends. Rusticated ashlar stone plinth with hammered finish, draughted and hammered stone quoins to front. Flat roof and squared and snecked stone to south-east extension. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with stone sills. Timber sheeted entrance door with battened overdoor, and four-panel timber door to rear. Flagstone flooring to canopy, with stone edging to platform. Entrance elevation flanked by random rubble stone walls with flat stone copings to north-west and south-east. Railway tracks to rear. Two-bay two-storey signal box having slate roof and red brick walls to south-east.

• Store/warehouse, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding three-bay double-height single-storey good shed, built c.1890. Now disused. Replacement pitched slate roof. Coursed random rubble limestone walls. Segmental-arch opening to middle of front elevation and round arched openings to gables, having dressed stone voussoirs. Square-headed window to front elevation with brick surround. Raised internal floor to road half. Six piers to inside rear wall of rear elevation. Square headed doorway towards station. Set on roadside with tracks to rear and random rubble boundary wall with coping of rubble set on edge.

• Bridge, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span railway bridge, built c.1900, over Abbert River. Now disused. Tooled ashlar limestone piers with draughted and sparrow-specked flat copings. Eight cast-iron metal beams to bridge surface supported by riveted cast-iron panels with single track over and cast-iron balustrade to west side. Inscription 'RW & S' on bolts to timber sleepers.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolfowerbeg.

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.

No address of the register names Coolfowerbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Coolfowerbeg · Cúil Fobhair Bheag

Area

349,268 m² (34.93 ha, 86.31 acres)

Civil parish

Killererin, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Ballynapark, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynapark electoral division: 1,101 people in 336 households; 95% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbey, Ballynapark, Brooklodge Demesne, Pollawarla

Placenames

Coolfowerbeg 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.