Coolvoy

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolvoy, from 141 m² to 1,085,851 m² (108.59 ha, 268.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Coolvoy 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.

• 18 Dec 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562265

• 10 Nov 2025N/a

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561955

• 19 Sept 2022Conditional

  (A)ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING (04/3572) INVOLVING THE OMISSION OF TWO GROUND FLOOR BEDROOMS (B) CONVERSION OF ATTIC SPACE TO FIRST FLOOR BEDROOM ACCOMMODATION AND (C) CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251560

• 22 Sept 2021N/a

  DWELLING AND SEPTIC TANK CONSTRUCTED IN A DIFFERENT LOCATION TO THAT WHICH WAS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION (T130/87) AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151908

• 23 Dec 2020Conditional

  AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH HARD STAND AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR (1) CLOSING OF EXISTING ENTRANCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW ENTRANCE TO EAST OF EXISTING ENTRANCE (2) INFILLING OF THE WESTERN EDGE OF HARDSTAND AREA

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2052049

• 20 Feb 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF SHEEPWIRE FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN A SPECIAL CONSERVATION AREA. THE APPLICAION INCLUDES A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050189

• 20 Dec 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF SHEEPWIRE FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN A SPECIAL CONSERVATION AREA. THE APPLICAION INCLUDES A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1952016

• 7 Nov 2019Refused

  EXISTING MIXED-USE SHED WITH HARD STAND AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION TO INFILL THE WESTERN EDGE OF EXISTING HARD STAND AREA

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951718

• 12 Sept 2019N/a

  A HARD STAND AREA AND MIXED-USE SHED

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951382

• 12 Aug 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF SHEEPWIRE FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN A SPECIAL CONSERVATION AREA. THE APPLICAION INCLUDES A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951231

• 15 Mar 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF SHEEPWIRE FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN A SPECIAL CONSERVATION AREA. THE APPLICATION INCLUDES A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950374

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
• Special Area of Conservation: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
• Special Area of Conservation: Coolvoy Bog SAC 001107
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Coolvoy Bog 001107

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolvoy.

Architectural heritage

• Doochary Bridge, bridge, 1785–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch bridge, built c.1786, crossing Abhainn Ghaoth Beara [Gweebarra River], comprising squared ashlar walls with dressed cut-stone voussoirs to segmental arches, projecting rusticated rubble abutments, and parapets with large field-stone copings. Ashlar piers with string course at springing level and large ashlar cut-water to the northeast with large projecting field-stone copings. Evidence for plug-and-feather technique of quarrying/stone-cutting to some stones.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Coolvoy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Coolvoy · An Chúlbhá

Area

3,055,285 m² (305.53 ha, 754.98 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Glenleheen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glenleheen electoral division: 156 people in 57 households; 84% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Adderwal, Clogherachullion, Derrynacarrow, Derrynacarrow East or Bellanaboy, Derrynagrial, Drumaneany

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Coolvoy 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.