Coolygorman
Coolygorman is a townland in the civil parish of Mahoonagh, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Cúil Uí Ghormáin.
- Area
- 91.8 ha
- 227 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 7,055 m² (0.71 ha, 1.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolygorman, from 243 m² to 188,244 m² (18.82 ha, 46.52 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 Coolygorman 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
28 Feb 2026N/a
construction of an extension to the sides and rear of the existing dwelling, the installation of a new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660219
20 Aug 2025Conditional
construction of a single storey extension to the side of an existing dwelling house
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560824
18 Dec 2024Conditional
rear & side extension to existing house and alterations to existing house, to consist of removal of existing chimney, replacement of existing roof and the removal of existing front door and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461274
22 May 2024N/a
a rear and side extension to existing house and permission for alterations to house, to consist of the removal of chimney, replacement of roof and the removal of front door and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460482
21 Dec 2022Conditional
a dwelling house, garage, new entrance, advanced effluent treatment system and a tertiary filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 221382
6 Oct 2021Conditional
an extension to existing cubicle house to include feeding passage, cubicles, slatted tank and calving house and an extension to the existing collection yard including slatted tank
Permission · Limerick County Council, 211388
29 Jan 2021Conditional
the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, septic tank & percolation area together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2177
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 Coolygorman.
Recorded monuments
- LI044-125 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.55m) with external fosse (D 0.9m; Wth 4.6m). Most of enclosing element and all of interior are covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI044-129 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Circular area (diam. c. 24m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.75m) with external fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 1m). Bank gapped in several places by cattle erosion. Interior is covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI044-131 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.25m) with external fosse (D 0.6m; Wth 1.6m). Most of enclosing element and all of interior is covered by dense overgrowth. From SW->NNE fosse waterlogged and widened by cattle erosion. Gap (Wth 2.4m) in bank at NE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI045-066 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on a slight S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 2m) with an external fosse (D 0.8m; Wth 2m). Gap (Wth c. 3.5m) in bank at NNE. Surrounding field boundaries have been removed and some of this debris dumped into fosse. Interior is covered by dense 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 Coolygorman.
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 Coolygorman, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolygorman.
- 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 Coolygorman with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Coolygorman · Cúil Uí Ghormáin
- Area
- 917,615 m² (91.76 ha, 226.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mahoonagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenquin
- Electoral division
- Broadford, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 993 people lived in 349 households in the Broadford electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Appletown, Ballydonnell, Coolaleen, Gortmore, Inishkeen, Kilcoorha, Lisnafulla, Tullaha
- Placenames
- Coolygorman 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.