Coolagh

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolagh, from 262 m² to 193,795 m² (19.38 ha, 47.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Coolagh 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.

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  for construction of a porch extension to the front (south) elevation of an existing dormer dwelling and dormer extension to the rear (north) elevation with minor elevational alterations to the existing dwelling to include raising the wall plate level for additional living space at first floor level and all associated external site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25349

• 30 Aug 2019Conditional

  to construct; new 2 storey extension to existing dwelling house, new effluent treatment system, retain existing domestic garage / store and all associated site ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 124.74 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 29.83 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191363

• 21 Mar 2019Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced dwelling house, garage and a treatment plant along with an access road. Gross floor space of proposed works: 244 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19412

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 Coolagh.

Recorded monuments

• GA107-042 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hummock in grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 35m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is visible from NW to NNE and from SSE to SW. A degraded scarp forms the enclosing element from NNE through E to S and no visible surface trace survives from SW to NW where it is overlain by a later field bank. The fosse survives from NW to NNE and from SE to SW. It is obscured by overgrowth from SSE to NW. The outer bank only survives NW to NNE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 November 2017

• GA107-043 Enclosure
  Description

  In gently undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1945 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a line of hachures curving from N to E (C c. 25m) and cut at E by a WNW-ESE running field wall. On inspection a very low, curving, narrow bank (base Wth 2.7m; Wth at top 0.9m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.15m) was visible. It was not possible to determine whether the bank continued further to the S and W to complete the circuit due to modern disturbance. Two low earthen mounds were visible within the interior; it was unclear if they were associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 23 July 2019

• GA107-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (39.5m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by two tree-lined banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer bank do not survive from S to W, and a field boundary overlies the outer bank from NW through E to S. There is a causewayed entrance gap (Wth 4m) at SSE. According to local information, there was a possible souterrain (GA107-047----) to the WSW of the monument. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 November 2017

• GA107-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Oval rath (35m NE-SW; 26m NW-SE), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is extant throughout but is overgrown with hawthorn trees. A gap (Wth 3.3m) at S appears to be original. The fosse and outer bank survive from W to N. The NE quadrant of the interior has been disturbed by quarrying. In the centre, a small subcircular depression (3.5m N-S; 2.5m E-W) is delimited by an earthen bank. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 November 2017

• GA107-047 Souterrain
  Description

  According to local information (personal communication Dr J. Shiels, March 1981), there is a possible souterrain to the SW of the rath (GA107-044----). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 November 2017

• GA107-048 Quarry
  Description

  A hachured feature marked on the 1945 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused sand or gravel pit filled with field-clearance material. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 August 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Coolagh, about 1 in 10 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 Coolagh.

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

Name

Coolagh · Cúlach

Area

632,589 m² (63.26 ha, 156.32 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeygormacan, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Abbeygormacan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

464 people lived in 162 households in the Abbeygormacan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boleyroe, Cormick, Drumatober, Kilnamullaun, Rahyconor

Placenames

Coolagh 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.