Cooleen

0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooleen. The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Cooleen 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.

• 1 Jul 2019Conditional

  demolition of existing open tank, soiled yard and calf house, construction of a slatted tank, dairy wash tank, cow return, dairy plant room, milking parlour, covered drafting area and associated works within the curtilage of a Protected Structure, Cooleen House (Reg. No. 282, Ref. No. B39(17))

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19651

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 Cooleen.

Recorded monuments

• LI039-005 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture, 95m W of the River Maigue, immediately S of the townland boundary with Lackanagrour. Enclosure (LI039-003----) lies 400m to WNW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped platform (dims. c. 34m N-S; 37m E-W) defined by a scarp, intersected at W by a lane or trackway running N-S. Monument visible as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a fosse, standing in the NW corner of a field on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 10 April 2021

• LI039-006001 Church
  Description

  Church ruins described in 1840 as following; 'It is a mere ruin, only fragments of its walls remaining. It is seventy three feet four inches [22.35m] in length and twenty two feet three inches [6.8m] in width on the inside. Its east gable is destroyed to the very foundations as is also the north wall, with the exception of a small fragment near the east end. A good deal of the west gable remains, but it contains no feature. A considerable part of the south wall remains, but it contains no feature. A considerable part of the south wall remains, but where the doorway was placed is reduced to a shapeless breach. The south wall is two feet ten inches [0.86m] in thickness and the north one two feet seven inches [0.78m]' (OSL Bruree Parish, 93). Westropp (1904-5, 431-2) recorded the following details about Temple Colman; 'The place is the old Ballysiward and Culballysiward (Cooleen). Another Ballyhubbarde, or Bollyhy ward, Church lay in Adamstown (supra, 270),and a third Sywardstown, in Oconyll, 1452, near Beyns and Bathkeale; Culballysiward was held by Keynsham, 1230 (B.B.L., 75). Bruree and Ballysyward Churches granted to deanery, 1250 (ib., p. 73). In 1284 Alex. f. Godfred, of Anud, granted Culbalysiward to John de Sandford, Archbishop of Dublin, to which bishoprick they had been formerly granted about 1210 by Hamo de Valoignes, Lord of Iniskefty (Plea R. 14 of xviii Ed. I., m. 15, Lib. Niger Alani, mss. 1061, T.C.D., p. 828). Culbalisiward, in Ocarbry, was taken unjustly from John Dondon, by M. f. Gerald, 1289 (Plea R. l.c., m. 10). John, son of Peter Daundon, broke into and robbed the church, 1318 (ib., 124 of xi Ed. II, m. 43). Balieyward was held by "the late Peter Daundon," 1319 (L.M.H. Estates R., 13, p. 36). Ballisheward, Ballihaward, or Bathioward, 1410 ; Balysyward, between Browrye and Athlackagh, 1418. The Dondons still held "Balleheward in Small County," 1586 (C.S.P.I, p. 236). Hewardstown (D.S. (A.), 41). Teampul baile hobairt) (O'Donovan, wrongly). Lewis calls it a templary, built in 1287 (i., p. 228). It is now called Temple Colman. Fabric - It is 73 feet 4 inches [22.35m] by 22 feet 3 inches [6.8m]; the featureless west end, and the north and south walls, the latter with a defaced window, stood in 1840; the gable and one wall have since fallen by 1901'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 May 2019

• LI039-006002 Graveyard
  Description

  Templecolman church ruins (LI039-006001-) forms NW boundary of sub-rectangular shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 21m N-S x 33m E-W) enclosed by a 19th century stone wall. The enclosing feature of the burial ground is depicted as a small circular-shaped enclosure possibly defined by an earthen bank on the first ed. OS 6-inch map. The curving section of the boundary wall at SE may be following line of earlier enclosing graveyard boundary. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 May 2019

Architectural heritage

• Cooleen House, bridge, country house, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey country house, built c. 1770, having four-bay single-storey extension to north and two-bay two-storey extension to rear (west) elevation. Pitched slate roof having overhanging eaves and rendered chimneystacks. Pitched slate roof with brick chimneystack to north extension. Pitched artificial slate roof to rear extension. Roughcast rendered walls having render strip quoins and carved limestone heraldic plaque. Square-headed openings with timber casement windows and concrete sills. Segmental-headed opening having fluted Doric style pilasters flanking timber panelled door with spoked fanlight and sidelights having timber risers. Single-arch sandstone bridge to east having dressed voussoirs to round-headed arches. Triple-arch sandstone bridge to south with dressed voussoirs to round-headed arches. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to east having hipped slate roof with brick chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble sandstone and limestone walls. Square-headed openings to front (north) elevation with stone sills and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed opening to front having timber battened half-door. Pointed arch opening to rear (east) elevation with brick voussoirs, quarry glazed window and limestone sill. Pointed arch opening to rear having brick voussoirs and stained glass window.

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 Cooleen, about 1 in 20 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cooleen · An Cúilín

Area

430,402 m² (43.04 ha, 106.35 acres)

Civil parish

Bruree, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Rockhill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

337 people lived in 124 households in the Rockhill electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glenma, Harding Grove, Howardstown North, Howardstown South, Lackanagrour

Placenames

Cooleen 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.