Coolmurly

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolmurly, from 1,332 m² to 120,291 m² (12.03 ha, 29.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Coolmurly 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Coolmurly in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Coolmurly.

Recorded monuments

• SL035-061 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  The monument, which has been destroyed, stood some 10m N of the northern extremity of a court tomb (SL035-062----). OS documents record a structure formed of upright stones at this spot in or about 1914 but it had been removed by 1952. A plan of the tomb (Wood-Martin 1883-4, 454, no. 13; 1888, 175, no. 13) shows an oval gallery (L c. 7m; max. Wth c. 3m) which seems to have opened to the N. In a brief account Wood-Martin claimed that the monument terminated in two circles though these are not illustrated on his plan. A wedge tomb (SL035-063----) lies c. 150m to SSW. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 65-6, no. 107) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008 See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)

• SL035-062 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  On rolling pasture and c. 100m NNE of a wedge tomb (SL035-063----) and c. 10m S of the site of an unclassified megalithic tomb (SL035-061----). A U-shaped court (L at least 5.5m; Wth c. 7.5m) at the SSE leads to a gallery (L 9m). Three stones remain of the more easterly arm of the court and five of the opposite arm. Two jambs mark the entrance to the gallery which is divided by three other pairs of jambs into four chambers. There is a sillstone between the jambs separating the second and third chamber. The gallery sides are quite well-preserved and the backstone is in place. The tomb is in a poorly preserved long mound (L c. 33m). About 2m outside the E arm of the court there is a kerbstone and another 1.5m outside the W arm. Seven probable kerbstones are exposed along the northern half of the W side of the mound. The backstone and southern sidestone of what appears to be a small lateral subsidiary chamber stand at the W side of the mound almost 5m beyond the back of the gallery. A field fence extends along both arms of the court, the E side of the gallery and from the gallery backstone northwards along the mound. There is a small quarry to the E of this fence behind the gallery. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 66-7, no. 106) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008 See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)

• SL035-063 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  Near the crest of a low ridge in rolling pasture. Part of a WSW-facing gallery (L c. 3m; Wth 1.2m) and the remains of outer-walling and a facade survive here. Two orthostats are visible on the S side of the gallery. Opposite the western of these there is another orthostat and to the E of this two corbels rising above fill continue the line of the gallery side. Just beyond these there is a partly concealed stone which may also be a corbel. There are five outer-wall stones to the S of the gallery, two of them together at the W and three alongside at the E. The N side of the outer-walling is represented by a single stone. Two facade stones adjoin the W end of the outer-wall at the S. Two roofstones cover the surviving length of gallery. A third roofstone which lay to the E of these and also the northern half of the façade have been lost since the later half of the 19th century (Wood-Martin 1883-4, 453-4; 1888, 172-4). A stone protruding from a fence crossing the NW corner of the structure and another alongside it may be displaced facade stones. A stone at the E end of the structure could indicate the back of the outer wall but is not definitely in situ. Traces of a mound, not more than 0.5m high, are visible along the S side of the monument. A court tomb (SL035-062----) is c. 100m to NNE and the site of an unclassified megalithic tomb (SL035-061----) is c. 150m to NNE. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 65-6, no. 105) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008 See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)

• SL035-098 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Near the summit of a ridge. A raised circular area (int. diam. 24.8m x 23.9m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.45m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.45m) and an external fosse. The fosse is mostly silted-up but is widest and deepest (Wth 4m; D 1.3m) along the S arc. The entrance (Wth 4.6m), with a causeway across the fosse, is at SE. The interior slopes slightly down to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL035-099 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On the N side of a field boundary and c. 10m NE of a rath (SL035-100----). This holy well is now closed-in, overgrown with vegetation and dry since a new well was dug slightly downhill. It was recorded in 1836 as 'Tobar na Glaise from the enchanted cow called Glaisín that used to regale herself at this well' (OSL, 243). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL035-100 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In wet pasture, on a slight SE-facing slope. A slightly raised roughly circular area (26m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1m) SE-NE and by a faint scarp elsewhere. Several small breaks occur in the bank due to erosion by livestock. The interior is level. Indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map an embanked circular area, open to E. A holy well (SL035-099----) lies c. 10m to NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Coolmurly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Coolmurly · Cúl Muirligh

Area

876,558 m² (87.66 ha, 216.6 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmactranny, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Kilmactranny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

360 people lived in 133 households in the Kilmactranny electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyculleen, Coolmeen, Drumbeg South, Foyoges, Magheralackagh, Treanmore

Placenames

Coolmurly 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.