Cool West

103 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cool West, from 76 m² to 490,404 m² (49.04 ha, 121.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Cool West 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.

• 29 Nov 2021Conditional

  (A) the demolition of existing derelict house (B) the construction a single storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, upgrade existing entrance and entrance walls, install a mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211642

• 15 Oct 2021Conditional

  decommissioning existing septic tank system, install new mechanical aeration unit with polishing filter system with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211445

• 4 Apr 2017Conditional

  construct a single dwelling house with attached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls, installation of a mechanical aeration unit and sand polishing filter system with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17290

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

• LI035-007 Causeway
  Description

  In Gogan's account of discovery of the Cnoc na bPoll hoard reference is made to 'evidence of early habitation ... about 400 yards from the find-site' (Gogan 1932, 60). This consisted of 'oak-stakes about three feet long, two inches square in section ... and set about two feet apart' (ibid.); these were found about 10 feet below surface of bog. The extent of this 'ancient paling' was not determined but 'adjoining' it, at a depth of 12 feet, were remains of a flagged causeway (LI035-008---). Area where causeway indicated on Grogan's map (ibid., opp. 59) now covered by dense coniferous plantation with deep intersecting drains. No trace of any archaeological features were noted in the area. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI035-008 Causeway
  Description

  In Gogan's account of discovery of the Cnoc na bPoll hoard reference is made to 'evidence of early habitation ... about 400 yards from the find-site' (Gogan 1932, 60). This consisted of 'an ancient stone causey' (ibid.) consisting of 'flags' which 'may extend for about a mile in an easterly direction, patches of the old road being noted at different points' (ibid.). These were found about 12 feet below surface of bog and 'adjoining' a stake paling (LI035-007---). Area of causeway indicated on Grogan's map (ibid., opp. 59) now covered by dense coniferous plantation with deep intersecting drains. No trace of any archaeological features were noted in the area. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_347 (ZIP).

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 Cool West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Cool West · An Chúil Thiar

Area

2,587,628 m² (258.76 ha, 639.42 acres)

Civil parish

Rathronan, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Rathronan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathronan electoral division: 937 people in 361 households; 81% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cool East, Crataloe West, Gortnagross, Templeathea West, Tooradoo

Placenames

Cool West 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.