Coolcappagh

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolcappagh, from 182 m² to 175,109 m² (17.51 ha, 43.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Coolcappagh 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.

• 28 Mar 2022Conditional

  the construction of a slatted shed, feed passages and concrete apron

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22344

• 31 May 2021Conditional

  filling proposed land with suitable material to the proposed levels and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21759

• 23 Oct 2019Conditional

  construction of a stone boundary wall with pedestrian access gate and all ancillary works to front of dwelling house

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 191047

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 Coolcappagh.

Recorded monuments

• LI028-049 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope, immediately below top of low hill. Circular area (32m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank with external fosse. Bank (int. H 1.05m; ext. H 2.4m) evident all round and has traces of internal stone facing at W and ENE. Gaps in bank at N (Wth 4m) and SSE (Wth 4.4m); N gap now closed by gate and has causeway across fosse, possibly of recent construction; S gap marked by slump of bank material into fosse. Fosse (Wth 2.3m; D 0.4m) best preserved SW->S, barely discernible N->NE, and is poached by cattle ESE->S. Interior surface has been churned up by farm machinery, and loose stone derived from eroding bank litter its perimeter. Field boundaries abut fosse at W and bank at ESE and S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI028-052 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, on very slight S-facing slope. Circular area (27.5m E-W; 26.6m N-S) enclosed by stone wall which is densely overgrown with briars. Wall (Wth 4.15m base; Wth c. 2m top; int. H 1.05m; ext. H 1.53m) has vertical external face evident at W though elsewhere it has slumped. Gaps in wall at NW (Wth 2.5m) and NNW (Wth 5.1m), separated by limestone outcrop. Interior level. 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 Coolcappagh.

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

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

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

Name

Coolcappagh · Cúil Cheapach

Area

643,434 m² (64.34 ha, 159 acres)

Civil parish

Clonagh, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Riddlestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Riddlestown electoral division: 601 people in 200 households; 94% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvulla, Ballyegny More, Ballykenry, Ballynamuddagh, Ballynisky, Kilquane, Lisnacullia

Placenames

Coolcappagh 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.