Coolross

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolross, from 208 m² to 814,432 m² (81.44 ha, 201.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 54 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 Coolross 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 Jun 2026Conditional

  the changes to previously approved drawings (previous planning reference no. 23/60964), for alterations and extension to existing dwelling house consisting of the following: new extension to the side of the dwelling, the inclusion of a self contained granny flat, alterations to the existing dwelling and all associated site works. RETENTION PERMISSION is also being sought for works carried out to the existing dwelling and alterations to the front and side elevation of the dwelling

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660599

• 11 Apr 2024Conditional

  the construction of a calf shed with ancillary underground effluent storage tank & livestock handling yards, including all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460267

• 5 Dec 2023Conditional

  a single storey extension to the existing dwelling house. Permission for alterations and extension to existing dwelling house consisting of the following: new extension to the side of the dwelling, the inclusion of a self contained granny flat, alterations to the existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2360964

• 7 Jun 2018Conditional

  (1) The Retention of an agricultural shed with underground effluent storage tank as constructed, (2) Permission for the construction of an agricultural shed with underground effluent storage tank and (3) Permission for the construction of a silage base, and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600727

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: River Little Brosna Callows SPA 004086
• Natural Heritage Area: River Little Brosna Callows NHA 000564

Recorded monuments

• TN001-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of high ground overlooking the Little Brosna River to the N and marshland to the NW. A well-preserved large circular area (diam. 60m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) with evidence of stone revetment along the inner face and an external fosse (Wth 3m) and outer bank visible from SE-S-W only. There is a well-preserved entrance gap (Wth 3m) at SE. Wall-footings of a field boundary bisect the interior on a N-S axis. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN001-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a SE-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area. A large raised area (diam. 45m E-W; H 1m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 2m) destroyed from E to S and an external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.7m) with no evidence of an outer bank. No entrance feature visible. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN002-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture with good views in all directions. A slightly raised circular area (diam. 35m NW-SE) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1-1.5m) and an outer fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.5-0.7m) with a possible destroyed causewayed entrance (Wth 10m) at S. There is good evidence of internal and external stone revetment of the enclosing bank in the form of upright stones protruding from the top of the denuded bank. The bank and fosse are destroyed from NE to E while the bank is intersected by a field fence at E on a NE-SW axis. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• House, 1670–1710 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey house, built c.1690, having projecting full-height cat-slide porch. Single-storey lean-to at north end. Pitched artificial slate roof with three large chimneystacks, with projecting stacks at gables. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings, smaller and square in shape to first floor, with timber sliding sash windows, barred six-over-six pane to ground floor of south end and three-over-three pane to first floor, with stone sills. Battened timber door to porch. Garden to front. Random rubble single-storey and lofted outbuildings to east and south with pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs.

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house with lower two-storey return, built c.1850. Hipped slate roof, pitched to return, with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with dressed limestone quoins. Square-headed replacement uPVC windows and round-headed doorway with limestone block-and-start surround with panelled timber door with spoked fanlight. Return may be older than main block. Range of single-storey and lofted limestone outbuildings to rear (north) with pitched and lean-to slate and corrugated iron roofs.

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 Coolross, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Coolross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Coolross · An Cúlros

Area

5,086,427 m² (508.64 ha, 1,256.88 acres)

Civil parish

Dorrha, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Rathcabban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

311 people lived in 110 households in the Rathcabban electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyea, Ballyoughter, Cloghan Demesne (Co. Offaly), Derry, Gortskeha (Co. Offaly), Kilmochonna (Co. Offaly)

Placenames

Coolross 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.