Cooldrumman Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Drumcliff, barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo; in Irish Cúl na Dromann Íochtarach
- Area
- 97.9 ha
- 242 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 7,221 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooldrumman Lower, from 1,779 m² to 178,430 m² (17.84 ha, 44.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cooldrumman Lower 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
18 Apr 2024Conditional
partial change of design under granted planning permission PL ref No: 23/60178 for construction of an underground slatted slurry storage tank instead of erection of an overground slurry store and all associated site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460117
14 Jul 2023Conditional
Permission for the following: a) Conversion of existing milking parlour to a dairy and plant area b) Construction of an agricultural building to include a milking parlour, a drafting area with handling facilities and extended livestock waiting yard. c) Erection of an external milk silo, meal bin, external water storage tank d) Erection of an overground slurry store and all associated site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2360178
23 Jun 2017Refused
development consisting of the retention of a log cabin type dwelling, construction of new septic tank and percolation area and retention of site layout as constructed (previous planning reference PL 06/62 refers)
Retention · Sligo County Council, 17242
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 Cooldrumman Lower.
Recorded monuments
- SL008-029 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a slight rise in gently undulating pasture. Slightly raised oval area (dims. 23m E-W; 21m N-S) encloses by an irregular low broad bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.3m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. Field clearance rocks have been dumped along the external face of the bank on all sides distorting the original profile. A slight break (Wth 4m) in the bank at N may mark the position of the original entrance. A slightly raised irregular area (dims. 8m N-S; 10m E-W; H 0.1-0.3m) of uncertain significance is located to W of centre in the interior. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
- SL008-030 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a slight rise in gently undulating pasture. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 35m) enclosed by an irregular, low, broad bank of earth and stone (Wth 2-2.7m; int. H 0.1-0.3m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The bank encloses the site on all sides and has a very irregular low broad profile. An E-W orientated wire and post fence lies along the top of the bank NW-NE. There are numerous small breaks in the bank but the position of the original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
- SL008-031 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Situated in gently undulating pasture. Depicted as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c.30m) on the 1836-7 edition of the OS 6'' map but not shown on the 1940-1 edition. The monument has been levelled and there are no remains visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cooldrumman Lower.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Cooldrumman Lower.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cooldrumman Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Cooldrumman Lower · Cúl na Dromann Íochtarach
- Area
- 978,916 m² (97.89 ha, 241.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumcliff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Lissadill East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lissadill East electoral division: 862 people in 306 households; 78% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygilgan, Cashelgarran, Cooldrumman Upper, Cullagh More, Rahelly
- Placenames
- Cooldrumman Lower 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.