Coolwoneen
Coolwoneen is a townland in the civil parish of Moylough, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Cúl an Mhóinín.
Parcel 5535018
- Area
- 2,262 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 255 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Coolwoneen
Planning applications on this parcel
14 Nov 2018Conditional
for the construction of a two storey dwelling house (c.253 sqm), domestic garage (c.60 sqm), waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 313 sqm (House - 253 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181618
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 34.1 ha
- 84 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 2,362 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolwoneen, from 83 m² to 74,356 m² (7.44 ha, 18.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coolwoneen 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Jul 2025Conditional
for the construction of a new agricultural shed with slatted tank for cattle housing and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 258 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 2560992
15 Jul 2020Conditional
of the construction of a new agricultural shed for loose cattle housing, effluent storage tank and associated works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 550msq
Permission · Galway County Council, 20954
14 Nov 2018Conditional
for the construction of a two storey dwelling house (c.253 sqm), domestic garage (c.60 sqm), waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 313 sqm (House - 253 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181618
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Coolwoneen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolwoneen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolwoneen.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Coolwoneen, 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 Coolwoneen.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Coolwoneen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Coolwoneen · Cúl an Mhóinín
- Area
- 340,528 m² (34.05 ha, 84.15 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
- Cooloo, Cooloo Mountain, Lecarrow
- Placenames
- Coolwoneen 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.