Cooperhill

Area

2,048,660 m² (204.87 ha, 506.23 acres)

Buildings

21 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 9,986 m².

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Cooperhill

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel 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.

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 around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 3 recorded monuments.

• LI004-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently undulating pasture. Depicted on the 1841 ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 35m). St James’s Well (LI004-017----) lies 110m to W. The remains of a much degraded ringfort comprising of a raised circular-shaped platform defined by a significant ditch (Shanahan 2008, Section 3.10). There is no evidence of an enclosing bank, however an arcing section of earthen field boundary from NW-N-NE may represent the remains of such (ibid). Two pits were uncovered approx. 40m to W of monument, during test-trenching (Shanahan 2008). A circular-shaped pit (1.2m E-W; 0.74m N-S) and a second similar pit (0.6m E-W; 0.4m N-S) which are located 6.5m apart (ibid., Section 5.5). They had vertical sides, a slightly rounded base and both contained a single fill of dark-grey sandy silt with a moderate amount of charcoal flecks, burnt and vitrified stone (ibid.). These are assumed to be contemporary with the ringfort due to their close proximity. The monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe imagery taken 2011-13 and Google Earth aerial photography. See attached image of monument taken from Shanahan 2008 and Google Earth images taken 19/11/2019 and 05/02/2009 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 19 June 2020

• LI004-019 Burial ground
  Description

  On poorly drained grassland, burial ground described by Westropp (1904-5, 447) as following; 'A burial-place, near St. James's Well [LI004-017----)'. Burial ground visible today as a tee-covered area on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 July 2019

• LI004-027 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  On reclaimed intertidal marshlands, near the present bed of the River Shannon. Identified as a possible timber trackway which was uncovered during reclamation works along this portion of the river. Described along with the find of a Viking sword in 1958 as following; ‘trunks of oak trees laid flat in one direction, 16 feet [4.9m] under the surface (NMI Topographical Files, 1958). It has been suggested that it may have formed a causeway to Muckinish, further to N. Listed as ‘Cooperhill 1’ by O’ Sullivan (2001, 309) who described the site as following; 'An iron Viking Age sword was found on the S bank in 1958, at a depth of 16ft, on a substantial causeway of 'oak trunks all laid flat in one direction' beside a creek. The brief description of the findspot and the depth at which it was found suggests that this was a wooden trackway or boat-hard in a saltmarsh creek. (NMI files.) Not visited'. Monument is not visible today on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 19 June 2020

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

At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land 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 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.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.