Coolfree

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolfree, from 150 m² to 1,140,523 m² (114.05 ha, 281.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Coolfree 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.

• 6 Sept 2024Conditional

  the change of use of part of an existing single storey barn building for use as short-term letting for tourism. Planning permission is also sought for a single storey small kitchen building, with outdoor rinsing area, a polytunnel for the production of chemical free fruit and vegetables and all associated site works on and under land, including a new wastewater treatment system and associated percolation area and may also include minor improvements to existing vehicular entrance. This is a protected structure

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460893

• 27 Oct 2023N/a

  installation of 6 no. prefabricated glamping pod units, 1 no. prefabricated communal seating unit, car & bicycle parking, bin storage, installation of proprietary waste water treatment system incorporating secondary treatment & soil polishing filter discharging to groundwater, construction of new on-site access roadway, to be served by existing vehicular entrance, associated landscaping and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360784

• 1 Nov 2022Conditional

  the construction of a single storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, entrance and associated site works including septic tank and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 221174

• 4 May 2022Conditional

  the construction of an extension to southeast gable of existing dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22494

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: Ballyhoura Mountains SAC 002036
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoura Mountains 002036
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Castleoliver Woods 002090

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolfree.

Architectural heritage

• Waterloo House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement former rectory, built in 1787, leading to three-storey to rear. Comprising breakfront and four corner turrets to front (west) elevation, single-bay three-storey extension with cast-iron water tank, single-bay three-storey extension with three-bay two-storey addition to north elevation. Corner turrets to rear (east) elevation. Now in use as house. Roughcast rendered walls with limestone date plaque to rear. Pitched slate roofs having rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped slate roof to breakfront. Square-headed openings to first floor with eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed opening to breakfront, first floor, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window and painted stone sill. Square-headed openings to ground floor with twelve-over-twelve pane timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed openings to extensions, some having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings to turrets with fixed windows. Round-headed opening to breakfront having render hoodmoulding and glazed overlight over double-leaf timber panelled door. Flight of sandstone steps to entrance. Five-bay single-storey outbuilding to north having remains of pitched slate roof. Rubble sandstone walls with sandstone quoins. Camber-headed door openings having brick block-and-start surrounds, some with remains of glazed overlights. Camber-headed openings having brick block-and-start surrounds and fixed windows. Elliptical-headed carriage arch having brick block-and-start surround. Rendered piers and walls to 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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Coolfree.

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

Name

Coolfree · Cúil Fhraoigh

Area

4,128,184 m² (412.82 ha, 1,020.1 acres)

Civil parish

Kilflyn, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Kilflyn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilflyn electoral division: 231 people in 86 households; 87% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydonohoe, Ballyguyroe North (Co. Cork), Ballyorgan, Castleoliver, Glenanair East, Glenosheen, Houndscourt, Moanmore, Quitrentmountain (Co. Cork)

Placenames

Coolfree 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.