Coolrahnee
Coolrahnee is a townland in the civil parish of Askeaton, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Cúil Raithní.
- Area
- 84.4 ha
- 209 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 2,352 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolrahnee, from 154 m² to 174,895 m² (17.49 ha, 43.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coolrahnee 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Jul 2026Conditional
a 10-year planning permission for the proposed Askeaton Wastewater Treatment Plant (WwTP) Upgrade Project located in the townlands of Coolrahnee, Cloonreask, Askeaton and Moig South, County Limerick. The proposed development consists of the following works: i) Construction of a new WwTP including tanks, buildings and workshop, an ESB substation, pumping stations, reed beds, and associated outfall to the River Deel, roof and ground mounted solar photovoltaic panels, a new permanent site entrance on the L1201 local road to provide access to the WwTP with a cattle underpass including storage tank under the access road, removal of existing trees and vegetation at the proposed entrance to the WwTP and replanting of trees, and erection of fencing along the site boundary, in the townland of Moig South; ii) Construction of a new Wastewater Pumping Station (WwPS) at Abbey View and associated Storm Water Storage Tank with a Dual Function Overflow (i.e., an overflow which can function as a Storm Water Overflow or Emergency Overflow depending on the event), an odour control unit (with a manifold in the Storm Water Storage tank), a platform for a mobile generator and an internal washdown system for the Storm Water Storage Tank complete with a water storage and booster set, decommissioning and demolition of the existing Abbey View WwPS, decommissioning of the rising main to the existing Abbey View WwPS, and public realm and landscaping works, in the townland of Cloonreask; iii) Construction of a new outfall headwall (at the west bank of River Deel) to connect the overflow pipeline from the new Abbey View WwPS, in the townland of Cloonreask; iv) Decommissioning of the existing rising main from the existing Abbey View WwPS to the existing WwTP, and construction of a new rising main from the new Abbey View WwPS to the new WwTP, in the townland of Moig South; v) Network upsizing works (larger pipelines and attendant works) in the townlands of Cloonreask, Askeaton and Moig South; vi) Decommissioning and demolition of the small package treatment plant at Lismakeera, in the townland of Askeaton, with connecting pipework to the new Abbey View WwPS; vii) Decommissioning and demolition of the existing Askeaton WwTP and decommissioning of the associated outfall to the River Deel, in the townland of Coolrahnee; and vii) All related works and ancillary development including: Mechanical and electrical service A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted with the planning application
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660751
20 Jul 2022Conditional
the construction of an extension to the existing dryer tower facility, comprising of a three storey utilities enclosure to he south of the existing building and associated site works at the existing facility. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application
Permission · Limerick County Council, 22794
27 Jul 2021N/a
stable building including feed store/tack room and permission to construct a manure store, and all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 211059
19 Sept 2018Conditional
the construction of an extension to the existing production facility above the roof of the existing building, comprising of a seven storey mixing tower and a two storey utilities building including connections to the existing building at its existing manufacturing facility
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18915
9 Mar 2018Conditional
the construction of a single storey Air Handling Unit Building on the roof of the existing single storey production building, permission for the retention of (1) an existing single storey staff locker room building at ground floor level including a link corridor to the existing warehouse building. (2) an existing single storey off loading building and (3) and existing single storey extension to the waste management area at its existing manufacturing facility
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18220
30 Jun 2017Conditional
The demolition of existing temporary building and link corridor to the existing production building, relocation of an existing external fire escape stairs permission to construct a one-storey staff locker room building at ground floor level including link corridors to the existing production building permission to construct an enclosed loading area to the existing warehouse building and minor internal alterations to accommodate proposed works at its manufacturing facility.
Permission · Limerick County Council, 17617
23 Jun 2017Conditional
the demolition of 2 no. existing Oil Tanks and associated low-level bund wall, the construction of a two-storey Water Treatment Building at ground floor level consisting of plant/equipment rooms, the construction of a two-storey Waste Treatment Building at ground floor level consisting of plant/equipment rooms at its existing manufacturing facility
Permission · Limerick County Council, 17584
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolrahnee.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, built c. 1800, having two-bay single-storey extension to south and two-bay single-storey lean-to to north elevation. Pitched thatched roof with rendered chimneystacks. Single-pitched corrugated-iron roofs to extension and lean-to. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows and concrete sills. Square-headed opening having replacement uPVC door.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Coolrahnee, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_509 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Coolrahnee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Coolrahnee · Cúil Raithní
- Area
- 844,460 m² (84.45 ha, 208.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Askeaton, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Electoral division
- Askeaton West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,232 people lived in 435 households in the Askeaton West electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonreask, Tomdeely North, Tomdeely South
- Placenames
- Coolrahnee 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.