Coolybrown
Townland in the civil parish of Kilscannell, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cúil an Bhrúnaigh
- Area
- 71.2 ha
- 176 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 4,468 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolybrown, from 611 m² to 216,516 m² (21.65 ha, 53.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coolybrown 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
23 Nov 2023Conditional
the construction of an easy feed suckler/beef unit consisting of slatted slurry storage and a calf creep area including all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 23568
21 Feb 2023Conditional
cubicle house as constructed from that granted under planning re. 20/804 and permission for milking parlor and associated plant rooms, dairy room, storage, holding yard, slatted tanks and to construct a roof over existing collecting yard
Retention · Limerick County Council, 23104
18 Aug 2020Conditional
construction of a cubicle house, roofed feed passage, slatted tank, milking parlour, dairy, plant room, calf house, meal bin, roofed drafting area, roofed collecting yard and concrete aprons
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20804
10 Apr 2018Conditional
(a) the change of use of agricultural outhouses to dog grooming facilities and boarding kennels and (b) construct rear lobby, ancillary site works and advertising signage
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18341
8 Feb 2017Conditional
retention permission for garage foundations and subfloor and full permission for the completion of domestic garage and an extension to agricultural machinery storage shed
Retention · Limerick County Council, 17107
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Coolybrown.
Recorded monuments
- LI028-058 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle SW-facing slope, immediately W of public road. Circular area (31.5m N-S; 31.5m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m) best preserved SE->W, and generally covered by dense overgrowth. Break in bank (Wth 7.2m) at NW possibly resultant from removal of field boundary, indicated on 1923 OS 6-inch map abutting bank at this point. Section of bank (Wth 10.6m) at ENE, where site borders public road, has recently been removed. Interior is under pasture that has been poached by cattle; S half slopes down gently to S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolybrown.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Coolybrown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Coolybrown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Coolybrown · Cúil an Bhrúnaigh
- Area
- 711,919 m² (71.19 ha, 175.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilscannell, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Electoral division
- Kilscannell, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilscannell electoral division: 612 people in 185 households; 90% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykenry, Clonagh, Kilscannell, Rathreagh More, Skehanagh
- Placenames
- Coolybrown 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.