Coolaghy Glebe

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolaghy Glebe, from 858 m² to 267,383 m² (26.74 ha, 66.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Coolaghy Glebe 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.

• 16 Feb 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND ASSOICATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250264

• 20 Dec 2017Conditional

  RETENTION OF (A) AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND (B) 2 NO. EXTENSIONS TO AGRICULTURAL SHED AND FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND GRAIN STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751947

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Coolaghy Glebe.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolaghy Glebe.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house on L-shaped plan, built c. 1840, having two-bay two-storey return to the rear at the north-west corner. Hipped natural slate roof with projecting eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods, central pair of smooth rendered chimneystacks having flat coping and decorative clay ware pots over, and with one smooth rendered chimneystack to return having clay ware pots. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls with raised ashlar block-and-start quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and having six-over-six pane hornless timber sliding sash windows. Central three-centred arched door opening to the east elevation having double-leaf timber panelled door with ogee-headed motifs with bolection mouldings, flanking cut stone Tuscan columns, infilled sidelights, Tuscan pilasters, and with spider’s web fanlight over; flight of cut stone steps to entrance. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the south-east of Raphoe. Detached four bay two-storey outbuilding to the south-west, built c. 1800, having flight of cut stone steps to the north gable end giving access to doorway at first floor level, pitched natural slate roof (now collapsing) with projecting eaves course, raised verges to gable ends (north and south), roughcast rendered rubble stone walls, loop hole openings, and with square-headed doorways and loading bays with remains of timber fittings; some openings now blocked. Detached three-bay two-storey outbuilding to the south, c. 1860, having pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods, rubble stone walls, segmental-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds, timber fittings, and wrought-iron security bars, and square-headed doorways and loading bays with red brick surrounds and remains of timber fittings. Set on an elevated site with formal garden to front and surrounded by mature trees to south and west. Long approach avenue to house from road to the north. Small walled enclosure to the south of house having rubble stone boundary walls.

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

At the centre of the townland of Coolaghy Glebe, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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.

No address of the register names Coolaghy Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Coolaghy Glebe

Area

522,408 m² (52.24 ha, 129.09 acres)

Civil parish

Raphoe, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Raphoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,521 people lived in 591 households in the Raphoe electoral division. 59% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolaghy, Difflin, Drumnabratty, Gortaquigley, Gortnesk, Mullaghanny, Oakfield Demesne

Placenames

Coolaghy Glebe 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.