Coolbeg

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolbeg, from 103 m² to 176,296 m² (17.63 ha, 43.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Coolbeg 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.

• 28 Jul 2025Conditional

  the construction of a slatted agricultural shed and associated ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560734

• 13 Oct 2023Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, new entrance, waste water treatment and disposal system and boundary walls

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 23498

• 27 Jan 2023Conditional

  A change of design to the dwelling from that of previously granted under ref: 21/926 and all associated site works at Coolbeg, Kildimo, Co. Limerick

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360031

• 10 Feb 2022Conditional

  extension of duration for 11/437 for a material change of use of dwelling house to provide a new use as self catering holiday accommodation. Works to consist of conservation and refurbishment of dwelling incorporating new plumbing and electrical services and new waste water treatment plant, landscaping and associated site works (this application relates to a protected structure)

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 227006

• 1 Jul 2021Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling, garage, waste water treatment system, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 21926

• 6 May 2021Conditional

  the construction of a detached garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21608

• 28 Feb 2020Conditional

  alterations to garage plan and elevations and associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 20173

• 20 Nov 2019Conditional

  change of house type from that granted under planning ref. 16/381

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191138

• 3 May 2018Conditional

  demolition of existing extension to rear of existing cottage, single storey extensions to side and rear of existing dwelling house, garage, new entrance gates and reinstatement of boundary wall, on site treatment system and percolation area and associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18425

• 3 Feb 2017Conditional

  extension of permission 11437 (a material change of use of dwelling house to provide a new use as self catering holiday accommodation. Works to consist of conservation and refurbishment of dwelling incorporating new plumbing and electrical services and new waste water treatment plant, landscaping and associated site works (this application relates to a protected structure)

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 177004

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: Dromore & Bleach Loughs 001030

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolbeg.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, built c. 1800. Hipped thatched roof with brick chimneystack. Roughcast render over rubble limestone walls. Square-headed openings having replacement uPVC windows and concrete sills. Square-headed opening with replacement uPVC door. Square-headed opening to rear (north) elevation having replacement uPVC door. Six-bay single-storey outbuilding to north with pitched slate roof. Roughcast render over rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings having red brick surrounds. Square-headed openings having red brick voussoirs and timber battened doors. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to west with lean-to to east elevation. Pitched corrugated-iron roof and painted rubble stone walls. Square-headed door openings.

• Goggin Cottage, house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, built c. 1800, having single-bay single-storey lean-to to north. Hipped thatched roof with red brick chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings, some having two-over-two pane fixed windows. Square-headed opening with half-glazed timber battened door. Square-headed opening to rear (west) elevation having timber battened door. Single-pitched corrugated-iron roof to lean-to. Painted rubble stone walls to lean-to. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to south having single-leaf metal gate.

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 Coolbeg, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_777 (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.

• Coolbeg, Kildimo7 sales

Name

Coolbeg · An Chúil Bheag

Area

728,716 m² (72.87 ha, 180.07 acres)

Civil parish

Kildimo, and its townlands

Barony

Kenry

Electoral division

Ballynacarriga, the unit of the census

Census 2022

947 people lived in 310 households in the Ballynacarriga electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardlahan, Ballyculhane, Ballyvareen, Bolane, Clooncaura, Knockroe

Placenames

Coolbeg 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.