Coolready

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolready, from 131 m² to 179,623 m² (17.96 ha, 44.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Coolready 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 Mar 2026Conditional

  the demolition of the existing substandard house and outbuildings, and to construct a replacement dwelling house, private garage, site entrance, private domestic wastewater treatment system and all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660254

• 16 Nov 2021Conditional

  slatted agricultural livestock unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211584

• 29 Oct 2021Conditional

  construction of detached machinery storage building, together with all associated incidental ancillary works. This application is also being submitted simultaneously to Tipperary County Council as the application site is bisected by the Limerick/Tipperary county boundary

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211506

• 23 Apr 2021Conditional

  demolition of derelict cottage, new dwelling house, garage, new entrance gates, septic tank and percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 21533

• 20 Sept 2019Conditional

  relocation of the existing Ardnacrusha Nenagh Birdhill 38Kv Line

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19941

• 16 Jun 2017Refused

  a new single storey dwelling house complete with effluent treatment system and a new site entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17556

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 Coolready.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolready.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820, with later extension to east. Windbreak to front (north) elevation. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with brick chimneystack. Render over random rubble walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills. Square-headed opening having timber battened door. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to north with pitched corrugated-iron roof. Painted rubble stone walls. Elliptical-headed carriage arch with double-leaf metal doors. Square-headed openings having timber battened doors. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to east with pitched corrugated-iron roof. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings having replacement doors. Square-profile rendered pier to west with single-leaf metal gate. Rendered boundary walls to site.

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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1086 (ZIP).

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

Name

Coolready · Cúil an Riadaigh

Area

1,523,582 m² (152.36 ha, 376.49 acres)

Civil parish

Stradbally, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Castleconnell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castleconnell electoral division: 3,607 people in 1,298 households; 75% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaholty (Co. Tipperary), Derryhasna, Derrylusk, Gooig, Montpelier, Portcrusha

Placenames

Coolready 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.