Cooperhill
Townland in the civil parish of Kilkeedy, barony of Pubblebrien, Co. Limerick; in Irish Muicinis
- Area
- 223.2 ha
- 551 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 1,060,523 m² (106.05 ha, 262.06 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooperhill, from 72,387 m² (7.24 ha, 17.89 acres) to 2,048,660 m² (204.87 ha, 506.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Cooperhill 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
No planning application touches the townland of Cooperhill in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Inner Shannon Estuary - South Shore 000435
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cooperhill.
Architectural heritage
- Cooperhill House, country house, 1730–1750 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay two-storey country house, built in 1741, with two-bay pedimented breakfront and three-storey rear. Now in ruins. No roof. Red brick chimneystack to gable end, west elevation with sawtooth motifs and camber-headed opening. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings, some with limestone sills. Square-headed window openings to north elevation with red brick surrounds. Four-bay single-storey outbuilding to north. No roof. Rubble limestone walls. Segmental-headed carriage arches having red brick voussoirs, now partially blocked up. Square-headed door openings to east wall. Two rubble limestone walled gardens having red brick walls to interior walls. Round-headed carriage arches with red brick voussoirs. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to west. Pitched corrugated-iron roof. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed door openings.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_876 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cooperhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Cooperhill · Muicinis
- Area
- 2,231,561 m² (223.16 ha, 551.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilkeedy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Pubblebrien
- Electoral division
- Carrig, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrig electoral division: 658 people in 211 households; 92% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Cooperhill 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.