Cooga Lower
Cooga Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Doon, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is An Cúige Íochtarach.
- Area
- 219.9 ha
- 543 acres
- Land parcels
- 120
- registered freehold, median 2,456 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
120 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooga Lower, from 8 m² to 230,064 m² (23.01 ha, 56.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Cooga Lower 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
7 Apr 2025Conditional
construction of a first floor extension which will incorporate dormer style windows, a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 25103
13 Aug 2021Conditional
the change of site boundaries & site layout from those granted in permission 19/1093
Permission · Limerick County Council, 211164
9 Aug 2021Conditional
construction of an agricultural shed with slatted tank and loose area and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 211136
26 Feb 2021Conditional
the demolition of existing substandard dwelling house, improvement of existing vehicular entrance, construction of a replacement single storey split level dwelling house, installation of a domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21226
5 Nov 2019Conditional
the construction of a single storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, garage, improvements to the existing site entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191093
12 Sept 2019Conditional
construction of a single storey extension to side of existing dwelling house consisting of wheelchair accessible bathroom and bedroom together with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19909
26 Jul 2019Conditional
closing of existing vehicular entrance & permission to close additional gateway into site and for permission to construct new replacement entrance and permission to remove, set back and replace back entire front boundary of site to provide improved sight lines
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19743
5 Jul 2018Conditional
the construction of a new two storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, a waste-water treatment system, a new site entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18686
31 Mar 2017Conditional
milking parlour dairy plant room, loose house, slatted tank, slatted agricultural shed and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 17280
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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cooga Lower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cooga Lower.
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 Cooga Lower, about 1 in 10 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1281 (ZIP).
- 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 Cooga Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Cooga Lower · An Cúige Íochtarach
- Area
- 2,199,345 m² (219.93 ha, 543.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Doon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coonagh
- Electoral division
- Doon South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,352 people lived in 507 households in the Doon South electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bilboa, Cloonteen, Cooga Upper, Darkisland, Gortavalla East, Gortavalla North, Kilmoylan Lower
- Placenames
- Cooga Lower 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.