Coolfin

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolfin, from 247 m² to 77,582 m² (7.76 ha, 19.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Coolfin 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.

• 24 Oct 2024Conditional

  for the retention of the front porch extension and the construction of an extension and make alterations to existing dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 27.25 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461420

• 6 Apr 2022Refused

  for a dwelling house, garage ,new septic tank/treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works house 244 sqm & garage 44 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260320

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: Ballinduff Turlough SAC 002295

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolfin.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolfin.

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 Coolfin, 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_764 (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.

No address of the register names Coolfin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Coolfin · Cúil Fhinn

Area

537,695 m² (53.77 ha, 132.87 acres)

Civil parish

Ardrahan, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Skehanagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

536 people lived in 185 households in the Skehanagh electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinduff, Ballymaquiff South, Ballymarcahaun, Corker, Pollataggle, Raheen Kilkelly

Placenames

Coolfin 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.