Cooloo Mountain

80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooloo Mountain, from 15 m² to 250,913 m² (25.09 ha, 62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 46 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 Mountain 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.

• 27 Aug 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561192

• 16 Jan 2024Conditional

  for the construction of an agricultural shed to cover existing livestock feed yard and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 815 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2460037

• 25 Apr 2023Conditional

  for the construction of (i) agricultural shed to cover existing manure pit, (ii) silage slab & apron, (iii) concrete surfacing and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 627 sqm (shed), 1,140 sqm (Silage Slab), 880 sq m (concrete surfacing)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2360415

• 22 Dec 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a new agricultural shed for loose cattle housing and associated works.Gross floor space of proposed works: 320 sqm (shed)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2261297

• 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

• 2 Feb 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 205 sqm (dwelling house) and 40 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260048

• 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

• 21 Dec 2021Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 284.6 sqm & 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212468

• 26 Nov 2021Conditional

  for a development consisting of the construction of a two storey dwelling house (c.193 sqm) domestic garage (c. 40sqm) wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 233 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212216

• 9 Aug 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works is 175 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211448

• 26 Mar 2021Conditional

  construction of a single storey extension (74sq.m) to existing dwelling house and associated works.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21467

• 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

• 1 Nov 2019Conditional

  for extension and alterations to dwelling house and to replace existing septic tank with a new wastewater treatment system and all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: Ext. to House 73.0 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191720

• 5 Jan 2018Conditional

  for part demolition of an existing two storey dwelling and the construction of a new two storey extension. A new single storey extension, a new domestic garage and new waste water treatment plant. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 116.5 and Garage 36.26.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 187

• 27 Jun 2017Conditional

  for (i) new farm entrance and access road (ii) new straw bedded cattle shed (iii) manure pit (iv) silage base and apron (v) new agitation points on existing slatted sheds and associated site works (gross floor space proposed 396.24sqm) SPLIT DECISION REFUSE PERMISSION FOR THE NEW FARM ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED ACCESS ROUTE

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17941

• 10 Jan 2017Conditional

  for retention of dwelling house on revised site boundaries and permission for a domestic garage / fuel store (gross floor space of proposed works: 59.5 sqm)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 177

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 Mountain.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cooloo Mountain.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Mountain, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Cooloo Mountain with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cooloo Mountain · Sliabh Chúil Lú

Area

1,543,001 m² (154.3 ha, 381.28 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

Brierfield, Brierfield (Blake), Brierfield (Toole), Brierfield North, Cooloo, Coolwoneen, Gorteenlahard, Lecarrow, Moylough Beg, Mullaghmore North

Placenames

Cooloo Mountain 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.