Coolquill

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolquill, from 1,126 m² to 535,330 m² (53.53 ha, 132.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Coolquill 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.

• 13 Dec 2019N/a

  the construction of one (1) wind turbine with an overall tip height of up to 150 metres. The construction of a crane hardstand area located beside the turbine. The construction of a 20kV substation building with associated electrical plant, equipment, and security fence. The construction of internal windfarm underground cabling. The construction of a new site access track. Installation of a drainage system for the proposed hardstand and road areas and all associated site development and ancillary works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19601392

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 Coolquill.

Recorded monuments

• TS054-053 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a slight rise in a field, with a possible motte (TS054-054---) located 560m to the E and deer park (TS054-071----) immediately to the E. The Lord of 'Cowellqueyle' is named in a list of suitors to the Earl of Ormond in 1508 (COD III, 335). The Civil Survey (1654-6) describes 'a good castle yett wanting repayre & a Bawne & a thatcht house' and lists the proprietor in 1640 as 'Morish Stoke of Coolequiell Irish Papist' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 130). Three storeys remain of the original five-storey tower house. According to the landowner the upper storeys were demolished about forty years ago (c. 1950s). The tower house is of roughly coursed sandstone rubble construction with cut quoins intact, although those on the W angle are denuded, and a base-batter (H 2.4m; Wth c.0.15m). There are vaults over the ground and second floors. A T-shaped house was built up against the E end of the NE wall of the tower house. An extension at the W of the house incorporated the remainder of the NE wall, up to and including first-floor level. The tower house entrance is at the W end of the NW wall, with a yett-hole at the apex of the pointed doorway. This leads to an entrance lobby, above which there is a murder-hole. Off this entrance lobby are two partially collapsed doorways, one leading directly into the ground-floor vaulted chamber, the other into a second lobby which gives access to the mural stair. The stair rises in the NW wall and continues along the NE wall before a spiral stair rises in the E angle, just above second-floor level. The opening for a spy hole, in the internal face of the NW wall of the lobby area, has been destroyed, though the hole itself survives (D 1.1m). The ground floor was lit by two windows, one in the NE, blocked, the other in the SE wall. The first floor is accessed from the mural stair in the NE wall. It was lit by two windows, one in the SW, broken-out, the other, blocked, in the NW wall. The murder-hole was accessed from a niche in the NW window embrasure. A doorway at the NE end of the SE wall leads to an L-shaped garderobe chamber which runs along the SE wall and turns in the S angle. It is lit by a window in the SE and SW wall. There were two small attempts to buttress the E end of the NE wall, the more substantial of which is tearing free of the wall, while the smaller buttress has partially collapsed. The second floor was entered from the mural stair in the NE wall. It was carried on a wooden floor supported by corbels on the NE and SW walls. It was lit by two windows, one single-light ogee in the SW and the other broken out in the NW wall. In the NE side of the NW window embrasure there is an entrance to an inaccessible mural chamber in the N angle. In the SE wall there is a door recess cut into the vault which may have given access to an L-shaped garderobe chamber which runs along the SE wall and S angle. Internally many of the features are unstable. Part of the ground-floor vault has collapsed, door arches and window embrasures are falling and the lintels in the garderobe chambers are badly split and some, particularly in the upper chamber, have collapsed. The NW wall is particularly unstable due to the later insertion of a fireplace and flue which were knocked through the masonry and thus seriously undermined the wall. It has a large gaping hole at second-floor level and a bad crack which continues down to the original ground-floor doorway. The SW face also has a number of cracks. The S angle of the tower house collapsed on 2 February 2021. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 12 February 2021

• TS054-054 Castle - motte
  Description

  On high ground in upland region with Coolquill castle (TS054-053----) 560m to the W in a recently planted confierous plantation. No accesss road provided into monument which is now located in the centre of a large coniferous plantation. Possible motte located in the centre of the 'Old Deer Park' (TS054-071----) associated with the nearby tower House (TS054-053----). Described in the OS letters as a 'moat measuring 50 paces in circumference at the base and about 16 ft [4.8m] high (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 154). It is depicted on the 25-inch OS map as a roughly circular raised area (diam. c. 40m N-S; c. 36m E-W). Access to the monument was not gained. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS054-057 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  On a S-facing slope of E-W ridge at E end of ridge in upland area with good views in all directions nearby ringfort (TS054-059----) 250m to SE. Poorly preserved earth and stone mound (H 2.5m; top diam. 2m E-W x 3m N-S) of which only the E half survives. The external base of the mound has been badly damaged by cattle poaching and damage caused to internal face of mound. To W of mound there are the remains of an irregular-shaped bailey area (dims. 18m NE-SW- x 18m SE-NW) defined by an earthen bank (top Wth 2.2m; base Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m) with external fosse (base Wth 3m; top Wth 5m; ext. D 0.6m) visible along W side of enclosure only where it cuts across the ridge. Beyond this fosse to the W there is a lot of ground disturbance which may be the remains of land clearance debris. Natural ridge, running E-W, has been cut across towards the E end by a fosse, beyond which there is a small D-shaped bailey and possible motte. Very poor condition due to cattle poaching and possible scarping by farm machinery resulting in half of the mound being levelled. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS054-058 Enclosure
  Description

  On low rise of ground on poorly drained grassland. W half on an enclosure depicted on first ed. OS 6-inch map, enclosure appears to have been bisected by a road running N-S. Not visible at ground level, however, field was in high grass at time of inspection and any low earthwork would have been obscured by the high vegetation. No visible evidence for any enclosing element on E side of road which is also in grass. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS054-059 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland on poorly drained undulating land in upland region with good views in all directions. Nearby motte and bailey (TS054-057----) 250m to NW. Poorly preserved raised circular area (int. diam. 32m N-S; 22m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (top Wth 1.7m; base Wth 4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.4m) mainly reduced to a scarp and external fosse (base Wth 2m; top Wth 4m; ext. D 0.25m) now only visible at E elsewhere it has been filled in. Large quarry (dims. 25m N-S x 9m E-W; D 0..8m) located in W quadrant and upcast from quarry dumped alongside opening to quarry in interior. Access to quarry from S quadrant of enclosure has resulted in the levelling of the enclosing bank from SE to S for a distance of 15m. Bank mainly reduced to a scarp except at W where it is visible as an earth and stone bank, cattle poaching to external faces of bank at E and W. No entrance feature visible. Spoil heap of land reclamation 5m to NE of enclosing bank. Univallate platform-type ringfort. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS054-071 Deer park
  Description

  Large rectangular area (int. dims. 580m NE-SW; 600m NW-SE) enclosed by a dry stone wall (T 0.6m; H 1.2m) which now act as modern field boundaries. The interior has been planted with a coniferous plantation. Possible motte (TS054-054----) in centre of deer park. Deer park associated with Coolquill castle (TS054-053----) which is located on the W angle of the deer park. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Coolquill · An Chúlchoill

Area

1,469,367 m² (146.94 ha, 363.09 acres)

Civil parish

Crohane, and its townlands

Barony

Slievardagh

Electoral division

Crohane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Crohane electoral division: 282 people in 97 households; 89% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyphilip, Broomhill, Crohane Lower, Kilnahone, Knockabritta, Knockanattin, Knockilterra, Tarsna

Placenames

Coolquill 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.