Coolagowan

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolagowan, from 1,727 m² to 235,883 m² (23.59 ha, 58.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Coolagowan 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.

• 2 Feb 2026Conditional

  demolition of existing derelict dwelling house, construction of new replacement dwelling to be served by proprietary secondary waste water treatment system & soil polishing filter discharging to ground water, enlargement of existing vehicular entrance, and all associated ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660096

• 14 Nov 2025Conditional

  renovation and extension to existing dwelling along with new wastewater treatment system, percolation area, garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 25370

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 Coolagowan.

Recorded monuments

• LI046-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture. Originally circular area (diam. 37.5m N-S) now truncated on W side by N-S field boundary (interior now 31m E-W); otherwise enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.65m) with barely perceptible external fosse (D c. 0.1m; Wth c. 3m). Causeway entrance (Wth c. 5.5m) at NE. Interior level and under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI046-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating marshy pasture. Roughly circular area (36.4m N-S; 36m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks. Inner bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.1m) covered by trees and bushes. External bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.25m) only evident SW->WNW and NW->NE; it has been truncated by field boundary on E and S sides. Intervening flat-bottomed fosse (Wth c. 3.1m) covered in places by rushes. Causeway entrance (Wth c. 2m) at NW; at NE is gap only in inner bank (Wth 2.5m). Level interior under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI046-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Monument, depicted as embanked sub-circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, was not inspected the landowner refused the Survey permission to inspect this site. 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 Coolagowan.

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 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 Coolagowan.

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

Name

Coolagowan · Cúil an Ghabhann

Area

1,297,434 m² (129.74 ha, 320.6 acres)

Civil parish

Corcomohide, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castletown electoral division: 396 people in 138 households; 85% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castletown, Cloonee, Croghteen, Drewscourt West

Placenames

Coolagowan 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.