Coolcam

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolcam, from 12 m² to 213,870 m² (21.39 ha, 52.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Coolcam 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 Coolcam 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Coolcam Turlough SAC 000218
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Coolcam Turlough 000218

Recorded monuments

• RO032-059001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope, c. 150m from the W edge of Coolcam Lough turlough which is largely in Co. Galway. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 34.7m N-S; 32.6m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 3-3.7m; Wth of top 1.7-1.9m; int. H 0.1-0.2m E-S to 0.4-0.5m W-N; ext. H 1.4-1.6m) and hedge with traces of internal facing-stones at N and SW, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.8m; Wth of base 3m; D 0.9m) SW-NW. An overgrown depression (dims 12m NNW-SSE; 2m ENE-WSW; D 0.8-1m) stopping 3m short of the bank at N may be a collapsed souterrain (RO032-059002-), but there is no evidence of side-walls or lintels. Rath (RO032-060----) is c. 60m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO032-059002 Souterrain
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope. An overgrown depression (dims 12m NNW-SSE; 2m ENE-WSW; D 0.8-1m) stopping 3m short of the bank of rath (RO032-059001-) at N may be a collapsed souterrain, but there is no evidence of side-walls or lintels. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO032-060 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope, c. 120m from the W edge of Coolcam Lough turlough which is largely in Co. Galway. Circular scrub-covered area (diam. 34.4m N-S; 31.9m E-W) defined by an overgrown flat-topped bank (Wth of base 4-6m; Wth of top 2-2.7m; int. H 0.2m at S to 1.2m at W; ext. H 0.5-1m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.6m) ENE-SE (downslope), and a fosse (Wth of top 4.5-5m; Wth of base 2-3m; D 0.4-0.6m) S-N-ENE. There is an entrance (Wth 3m) with stone-facing on the S side at ENE. Rath (RO032-059001-) is c. 60m to the NNE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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, low (inferred), 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 Coolcam.

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 Coolcam with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Coolcam · An Chúil Cham

Area

989,858 m² (98.99 ha, 244.6 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltullagh, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Kiltullagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kiltullagh electoral division: 1,185 people in 460 households; 84% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonfineen, Flaskagh More (Co. Galway), Glenmore, Kildaree (Co. Galway), Pollynoon (Co. Galway), Rathlena

Placenames

Coolcam 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.