Coollicknalea

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coollicknalea, from 179 m² to 316,997 m² (31.7 ha, 78.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Coollicknalea 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.

• 23 Apr 2019Conditional

  to consist of storey and half extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling house.(c.231 sq.m.), demolition of existing glazed front entrance porch and erection of new front entrance porch (c.3 sq.m) and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works is 234 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19602

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 Coollicknalea.

Recorded monuments

• GA004-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W c. 61m, N-S c. 50m) defined by a bank at SSE, and by a quarried-out scarp from S through W to WNW. A field boundary cuts the monument at NW and E and only a vegetation band survives to NE of it. There is a souterrain (GA004-022001-) within the interior. 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

• GA004-022001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within SW quadrant of a ringfort (GA004-022----). A poorly preserved drystone-built souterrain, T-shaped in plan. The 1st chamber (L 12.8m max.), running NW-SE, is mainly defined by a hollow, apart from NW end (L 2.8m) which survives intact. The 2nd chamber (L 17m, Wth 3.5m) extends from the junction of this chamber and hollow, and runs NE-SW. It is defined by a linear hollow and traces of drystone walling at NE end of S side. 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 Coollicknalea.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Coollicknalea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Coollicknalea · Cúil Leic na Liath

Area

1,287,886 m² (128.79 ha, 318.24 acres)

Civil parish

Addergoole, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Milltown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Milltown electoral division: 704 people in 266 households; 86% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymary, Cloondroon, Cloonnacross, Cormeelick North, Cormeelick South, Drum, Stripe North

Placenames

Coollicknalea 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.