Corracoolia

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corracoolia, from 19 m² to 92,116 m² (9.21 ha, 22.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Corracoolia 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.

• 27 Mar 2026Conditional

  to construct a general purpose shed for farm machinery, sheep and hay storage, new farm entrance and access roadway and all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660468

• 12 Nov 2024Conditional

  for completion of revised location of domestic garage to that granted under planning reference number 21/775 and all associated site works. Gross floor space of works to be retained/completed: 49.50 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461524

• 19 Sept 2024Conditional

  to change the house design previously approved under planning permission reference 21/774. Also, relocation of a larger domestic garage on site, reuse of all stone from existing old ruins for the proposed dwelling feature façades, include all other ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 181.00 sqm (house) & 134.50 (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461234

• 8 Aug 2023Refused

  to construct a new dwellinghouse with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter, domestic garage & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360924

• 14 Oct 2021Refused

  for a proposed fully serviced dwelling and Treatment System plant and percolation area with all associated works plus new entrance from public road.

  Outline permission · Galway County Council, 211898

• 11 May 2021Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage with wastewater treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 234.01 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21774

• 11 May 2021Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage with wastewater treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 236.58 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21775

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Corracoolia.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Corracoolia.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Corracoolia.

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

At the centre of the townland of Corracoolia, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Corracoolia · Corr an Chuaille

Area

1,237,989 m² (123.8 ha, 305.91 acres)

Civil parish

Taghboy, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Taghboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

229 people lived in 76 households in the Taghboy electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvoher North, Ballinvoher South, Boughil, Gortananny, Muckloon

Placenames

Corracoolia 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.