Cooloo

125 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooloo, from 75 m² to 338,827 m² (33.88 ha, 83.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 48 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 Cooloo 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.

• 29 Jun 2026N/a

  to construct a four bay slatted cattle shed and four bay machinery shed

  Permission · Galway County Council, 26160

• 5 Aug 2025Conditional

  for dwelling house granted under planning reference number 20/172 & relocation of same on revised site boundaries. Permission for construction of a new domestic garage and all associated site development works

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561070

• 22 Jul 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a new agricultural shed with slatted tank for cattle housing and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 258 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560992

• 18 Apr 2025Conditional

  to construct a new domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 45.75 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560467

• 23 Mar 2023Conditional

  for the development consisting of an 80 metre high temporary meteorological mast and all associated works for a period of 5 years

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23119

• 7 Mar 2022Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 197 sqm (house) & 40 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260190

• 23 Dec 2021Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house. domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works House 200 sqm and garage 200 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212526

• 20 Nov 2020Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a two storey dwelling house (c.217 sqm), domestic garage (c. 32 sqm) waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 249 sqm (217 sqm H, 32 sqm G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201764

• 13 Feb 2020Conditional

  for a dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 290.10 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20172

• 31 May 2019Refused

  for a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 323.90 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19831

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 Cooloo.

Recorded monuments

• GA045-015 Enclosure
  Description

  In reclaimed farmland. Poorly preserve circular enclosure (D c. 26m) defined by a low earthen bank at S and W; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A CBG (GA045-015001-) is visible in the interior. (Claffey 1983, 150-51) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA045-015001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within the interior of enclosure (GA045-015----). Numerous set stones indicate graves oriented E-W. An iron railing encloses a fairly recent burial and the last burials (of baptised children) occurred in the late 1930s (Claffey 1983, 150-51). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA045-016 Burial
  Description

  On an esker. This monument consists of three elongated mounds, of similar size (L c. 3.5m H c. 0.55), forming a triangle (Claffey 1983, 151). According to local tradition, they are the graves of 'chieftains' killed in a dispute over land (ibid., 105). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cooloo, 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

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

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.

• Cooloo, Moylough18 sales

Name

Cooloo · Cúil Lú

Area

4,044,538 m² (404.45 ha, 999.43 acres)

Civil parish

Moylough, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Cooloo, the unit of the census

Census 2022

580 people lived in 201 households in the Cooloo electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonascragh, Cloondahamper (Blake), Cooloo Mountain, Coolwoneen, Dangan Eighter, Derrybaun, Elmhill, Gorteenlahard, Hillsbrook Demesne, Lecarrow

Placenames

Cooloo 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.