Coolroe

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolroe, from 196 m² to 133,213 m² (13.32 ha, 32.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

• P1Agriculture
  Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space Sports Grounds (Active open space)
  Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 28 May 2026Conditional

  the construction of a single storey extension, as built, to existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660595

• 31 Oct 2018Conditional

  the existing dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance and septic tank as constructed with all associated site and ancillary site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 181061

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 Coolroe.

Recorded monuments

• LI047-091 Kiln - lime
  Description

  In disused quarry, 24m E of townland boundary with Proonts. Indicated on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated 'Lime Kiln' on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Seoighe (1987, 376) recorded the following about this post-1700 lime-kiln known locally as Hannon's limekiln; ‘Up to the late 1930’s people came from far and near to Hannon’s limekiln at Quarry Hill to buy lime for the whitewashing of their houses, outhouses, piers and walls’. Overgrown limekiln visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 September 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolroe.

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

At the centre of the townland of Coolroe, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1002 (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.

No address of the register names Coolroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Coolroe · An Chúil Rua

Area

467,721 m² (46.77 ha, 115.58 acres)

Civil parish

St. Peters and St. Pauls, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmallock

Electoral division

Kilmallock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,389 people lived in 962 households in the Kilmallock electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardkilmartin, Bawntard North, Bawntard South, Deebert, Proonts

Placenames

Coolroe 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.