# Cooleen, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Bruree, barony of Coshma, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Cúilín.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 430,402 m² (43.04 ha, 106.35 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Bruree, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/bruree.md
- Barony: Coshma
- Electoral division: Rockhill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31084
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120739
- Centre: latitude 52.451191, longitude -8.685007 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooleen; 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:


## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 1 Jul 2019, Limerick County Council 19651: Conditional. Permission. 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)). File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19651/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cooleen.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LI039-005: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI039-005----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI039-006001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI039-006002-. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Cooleen House, bridge, country house, 1760–1780, Regional interest, registry number 21903908, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC&regno=21903908. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cooleen.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cooleen.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cooleen.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Cooleen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Glenma: https://everytownland.com/limerick/glenma.md
- Harding Grove: https://everytownland.com/limerick/harding-grove.md
- Howardstown North: https://everytownland.com/limerick/howardstown-north.md
- Howardstown South: https://everytownland.com/limerick/howardstown-south.md
- Lackanagrour: https://everytownland.com/limerick/lackanagrour.md

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.

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Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cooleen
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/cooleen