Coolcronaun
Coolcronaun is a townland in the civil parish of Ballynahaglish, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Cúil Chrónáin.
- Area
- 226.7 ha
- 560 acres
- Land parcels
- 63
- registered freehold, median 4,151 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolcronaun, from 18 m² to 177,603 m² (17.76 ha, 43.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Coolcronaun 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
30 Jul 2025Conditional
Re: Full planning permission for the following: (1) Construction of a new detached dwelling house, (2) Domestic garage and (3) Proposed secondary treatment system and percolation area with all associated site works at Coolcronaun, Ballina, Co. Mayo on behalf of David Mc Hale and Aisling Higgins.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560508
16 Aug 2023Conditional
Refurbish existing cottage and to construct extensions to front and rear elevations. Construct Domestic Garage. Install on site waste water treatment system with percolation area and Carry out Ancillary Site Works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360324
21 Apr 2022Conditional
DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLINGHOUSE AND CONSTRUCT REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC DOUBLE GARAGE, WWTP AND PERCOLATION AREA, WITH NEW ACCESS TO EXISTING ROAD, AND CARRY OUT ALL ANCILLARY AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22307
8 Apr 2022Conditional
RETENTION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND BOILER HOUSE, REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES AND REVISED ENTRANCE FROM PREVIOUS PLANNING P78/1297, DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED AND BOARD SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22281
16 Jul 2021Conditional
EXTENSION TO DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21768
8 Nov 2017N/a
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17891
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: River Moy SAC 002298
Recorded monuments
- MA048-027 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA048-028001 Children's burial ground
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA048-028002 Bullaun stone
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA048-056 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Description
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 3 January 2012
- MA048-083 Standing stone
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA048-084 Standing stone
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolcronaun.
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 Coolcronaun, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolcronaun.
- 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 Coolcronaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Coolcronaun · Cúil Chrónáin
- Area
- 2,266,642 m² (226.66 ha, 560.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballynahaglish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirawley
- Electoral division
- Mount Falcon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,300 people lived in 461 households in the Mount Falcon electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bunnafinglas, Carrowkeribly, Curragh, Lissaniska East, Rathbaun, Sraheen
- Placenames
- Coolcronaun 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.