Coolbarreen

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolbarreen, from 47 m² to 79,793 m² (7.98 ha, 19.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Coolbarreen 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.

• 27 Mar 2026Conditional

  construction of a 4 bay cattle slatted shed with underground slurry storage tank together with cattle crush, dry storage area and all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2661

• 24 Oct 2025Conditional

  construct dwelling house and domestic garage with connection to eflfuent treatment system with associated site services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25448

• 3 Mar 2025Conditional

  construction of a cattle slatted shed with underground slurry storage tank together with cattle crush, dry storage area and all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2581

• 9 Dec 2024Refused

  Construct a detached dwellinghouse, including a tertiary treatment system and Infiltration /treatment area, together with all associated site works and services.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460750

• 7 May 2024Conditional

  construct dwelling house and domestic garage with connection to effluent treatment system together with associated site services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24149

• 10 Aug 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21853

• 15 Jun 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20383

• 19 Feb 2019Conditional

  RETAIN DETACHED SHED AND CONSTRUCT DETACHED STORE, BARN, STABLES AND GREENHOUSE, ALL BUILDINGS ARE ANCILLARY TO THE EXISTING DWELLNG HOUSE

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19109

• 27 Oct 2017Conditional

  RETENTION OF EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING HOUSE AND ANCILLARY WORKS, RETENTION OF CONVERSION OF EXISTING GARAGE PERMITTED ON FOOT OF P12/335 FOR USE AS A GRANNY FLAT ANCILLARY TO THE HOUSE AND INCREASED SIZE OF CAR PORT, RETENTION OF SHED AND ALL ANCILLARY SITEWORKS AND SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 17858

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Coolbarreen Lough 000481

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolbarreen.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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 water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolbarreen.

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 Coolbarreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Coolbarreen · Cúil Bhairrinn

Area

848,507 m² (84.85 ha, 209.67 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeena, and its townlands

Barony

Burrishoole

Electoral division

Kilmeena, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmeena electoral division: 1,616 people in 558 households; 88% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonkeen, Creggaunnahorna, Derrynanaff, Knockavanloman, Shanvallybeg, Tonaraha East, Westport Demesne

Placenames

Coolbarreen 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.