Cooga

182 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooga, from 96 m² to 150,010 m² (15 ha, 37.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Cooga 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.

• 6 Jul 2022Conditional

  development consisting of the following: to construct a dwelling house, construct a domestic garage, install effluent treatment system with percolation area and to carry out all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22231

• 27 Aug 2021Conditional

  Development consisting of the construction of a bungalow type dwelling house and domestic garage, install a wastewater treatment system and percolation area and carry out all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21335

• 12 Sept 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of 1 no. dwelling house with septic tank and percolation area, including all other ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18366

• 29 Mar 2017Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17119

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 Cooga.

Recorded monuments

• SL011-086 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on slight SE-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Raised roughly rectangular area (18m NW-SE; 16m NE-SW) enclosed by a broad bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.95m; int. H 0.3m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL011-087 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Situated on slight S-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Raised, roughly circular area (26m E-W; 23m N-S) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth (Wth 4.8m; int. H 1.1m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The inner face of the bank is vertical and revetted with large limestone blocks (av. 0.5m x 0.3m x 0.2m) laid up to three courses high. A break (Wth 3.75m) in the bank at SE marks the position of the original entrance. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL011-137 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture/grazing, located in damp ground at base of a slight SE-facing slope, and 2-3m to NW of a field drain and hedge-row which border the SE side of the field. A compact, grass-covered, horseshoe-shaped mound (10m NE–SW; 8.m NW–SE; H 0.7m), composed of angular stone fragments in black soil, with a hollow (Wth 2m) on the SE side of the mound indicating the likely location of the trough. Located 3m to NNE is a slight oblong rise (c. 6m E–W; 2-2.5m N–S) of uncertain significance. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 April 2013

• SL017-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise adjacent to the N bank of a NW-flowing stream. Slightly raised oval area (26.5m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by a low earthen bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1m) which has been levelled at SW. There are traces of stone facing on the bank. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cooga, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cooga · An Cúige

Area

4,272,145 m² (427.21 ha, 1,055.67 acres)

Civil parish

Easky, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Rathmacurkey, the unit of the census

Census 2022

598 people lived in 218 households in the Rathmacurkey electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cabragh, Caltragh, Carrownrod, Cartron, Leaffony, Oghil, Rathlee

Placenames

Cooga 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.