# Coolfree, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilflyn, barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cúil Fhraoigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 4,128,184 m² (412.82 ha, 1,020.1 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 30,521 m² (3.05 ha, 7.54 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilflyn, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/kilflyn.md - Barony: Coshlea - Electoral division: Kilflyn, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 231 people lived in 86 households in the Kilflyn electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30994 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120740 - Centre: latitude 52.301158, longitude -8.481647 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolfree, from 150 m² to 1,140,523 m² (114.05 ha, 281.83 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1612264: 1,140,523 m² (114.05 ha, 281.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612264.md - Parcel 1603957: 814,717 m² (81.47 ha, 201.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603957.md - Parcel 1650425: 367,854 m² (36.79 ha, 90.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650425.md - Parcel 1642784: 239,516 m² (23.95 ha, 59.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1642784.md - Parcel 1608755: 220,397 m² (22.04 ha, 54.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608755.md - Parcel 1673931: 191,496 m² (19.15 ha, 47.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673931.md - Parcel 1623993: 171,381 m² (17.14 ha, 42.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1623993.md - Parcel 1653298: 163,321 m² (16.33 ha, 40.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653298.md - Parcel 1622606: 156,176 m² (15.62 ha, 38.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622606.md - Parcel 1657628: 138,688 m² (13.87 ha, 34.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657628.md - Parcel 1624002: 120,122 m² (12.01 ha, 29.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624002.md - Parcel 1616595: 103,785 m² (10.38 ha, 25.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616595.md - Parcel 1664981: 84,648 m² (8.46 ha, 20.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1664981.md - Parcel 1624030: 80,812 m² (8.08 ha, 19.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624030.md - Parcel 1640365: 73,382 m² (7.34 ha, 18.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1640365.md - Parcel 1662742: 67,459 m² (6.75 ha, 16.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662742.md - Parcel 1627898: 67,417 m² (6.74 ha, 16.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1627898.md - Parcel 1611264: 55,898 m² (5.59 ha, 13.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1611264.md - Parcel 1651999: 35,051 m² (3.51 ha, 8.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1651999.md - Parcel 1624019: 25,992 m² (2.6 ha, 6.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624019.md - Parcel 1603400: 23,794 m² (2.38 ha, 5.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603400.md - Parcel 1653052: 22,943 m² (2.29 ha, 5.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653052.md - Parcel 1609127: 5,536 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1609127.md - Parcel 1627906: 4,833 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1627906.md - Parcel 1613077: 4,693 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1613077.md - Parcel 1663114: 4,376 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663114.md - Parcel 5741249: 3,995 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5741249.md - Parcel 1613856: 3,942 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1613856.md - Parcel 1620892: 2,912 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1620892.md - Parcel 1647465: 2,678 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647465.md - Parcel 1588576: 2,586 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1588576.md - Parcel 1627921: 2,057 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1627921.md - Parcel 1638360: 1,609 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1638360.md - Parcel 1646997: 726 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1646997.md - Parcel 1614209: 526 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1614209.md - Parcel 5379461: 432 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5379461.md - Parcel 1614429: 232 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1614429.md - Parcel 5379467: 150 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5379467.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 6 Sept 2024, Limerick County Council 2460893: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460893/0 - 27 Oct 2023, Limerick County Council 2360784: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360784/0 - 1 Nov 2022, Limerick County Council 221174: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a single storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, entrance and associated site works including septic tank and percolation area. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/221174/0 - 4 May 2022, Limerick County Council 22494: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of an extension to southeast gable of existing dwelling house. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/22494/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Ballyhoura Mountains SAC, site code 002036, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002036 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Castleoliver Woods, site code 002090 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoura Mountains, site code 002036 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolfree. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Waterloo House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1780–1800, Regional interest, registry number 21802004, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21802004. 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. ## 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 Coolfree, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - 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, 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/coolfree.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/coolfree.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/coolfree.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Coolfree 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) - Ballydonohoe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballydonohoe-120212.md - Ballyguyroe North (Co. Cork): https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyguyroe-north.md - Ballyorgan: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyorgan.md - Castleoliver: https://everytownland.com/limerick/castleoliver.md - Glenanair East: https://everytownland.com/limerick/glenanair-east.md - Glenosheen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/glenosheen.md - Houndscourt: https://everytownland.com/limerick/houndscourt.md - Moanmore: https://everytownland.com/limerick/moanmore-121568.md - Quitrentmountain (Co. Cork): https://everytownland.com/cork/quitrentmountain.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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. 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/coolfree - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/coolfree