Cooliska

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooliska, from 63 m² to 386,879 m² (38.69 ha, 95.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Cooliska 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.

• 13 Jul 2026N/a

  the construction of a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, drive, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660798

• 25 Feb 2026Refused

  construction of a dormer style dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, drive, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works. Original Planning Ref. No. 21/605

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 267021

• 11 Aug 2021Conditional

  a slatted unit and all associated site work

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211147

• 6 May 2021Conditional

  construction of a dormer style dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, drive, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21605

• 9 Feb 2021Conditional

  the development of a walking track around the perimeter of the existing playing pitch and grounds to include floodlighting and all associated site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21135

• 3 Oct 2018Conditional

  construction of a new hurling wall enclosure with internal drills pitch, install new players dugouts, pitch flood lighting, revised parking and footpath layout with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18965

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 Cooliska.

Recorded monuments

• LI037-071 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In level pasture. Roughly kidney-shaped shallow pond (15m N-S; 8m E-W) enclosed W->S by hedge and S->W by modern concrete wall; enclosed area: 18m E-W; 16m N-S. Public roadway runs approximately E-W along SW side of concrete wall, and gate gives access from road to pond. Inside gate is large modern statue of Christ on a pedestal. According to (Ó Danachair 1955, 211) known locally as St John's Well; he also records that 'a pattern, with sports and horse-races, was held up to about 1850' (ibid.); he also notes legends relating to St Patrick associated with well. The following folklore was recorded in 1937 from Mahoonagh National School about John the Baptist's Well; 'About a hundred years ago two nice girls from Cooliska came to the well on the pattern day. One girl was Eily Hartnett and the other was Eily Moore. They were first cousins and were supposed to be the nicest girls in three parishes. While they were praying a whirl wind came and whirled Eily Hartnett up in the air. The people tried to catch her but failed to do so. They could only watch and pray. After a while she disappeared. The priest said masses for her the following week. About a week after the pattern day the Hartnett family heard a cry in the field adjoining the well. It was in the middle of the night. They ran out to see what was wrong. They saw their own child Eily and she was going up in the air again. This time she was saying "good-bye" to her people. Any time a Moore or Hartnett dies the cry is heard. She is called the Banshee. Here is another legend:- About forty years ago there was a blind child by the name of Flanagan. Her mother was Hayes and her Grandmother was Griffin. They lived in Ballinoe. The Grandmother carried the Flanagan child to the holy well and said three rosaries. Suddenly the child said, "Grandma! look at the trout," and her sight was restored. It is said that there are three trout in the well. Anyone who has bad sight if he sees anyone of the trout he will be cured' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0489, Pages 128-9; accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4921967/4914149) See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00088 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/30970 and F025.21.00090 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/30972. Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 1 October 2020

• LI037-073 Moated site
  Description

  In level pasture. Rectangular area (25m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by scarped edge (ext. H 0.25m) with internal fosse (Base Wth. 1.00m) and intermediate earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.55m); external fosse (Base Wth. 0.80m; D 0.25m) SE->NE. Possible original entrance (Wth. 4m) through bank at W. Field drain runs along line of external fosse NE->SE. Intermediate bank incorporated into field boundary with external fosse re-cut as field drain SE->SW. Interior level and clear of overgrowth. 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 Cooliska.

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 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 Cooliska.

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

Name

Cooliska · An Chúil Loiscthe

Area

1,166,969 m² (116.7 ha, 288.36 acres)

Civil parish

Mahoonagh, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Danganbeg, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Danganbeg electoral division: 433 people in 155 households; 90% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balliniska, Ballydoorty, Coolyroe, Curragh, Garrane, Gortskagh, Mayne

Placenames

Cooliska 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.