Coolcroo

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolcroo, from 26 m² to 83,729 m² (8.37 ha, 20.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Coolcroo 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.

• 21 Dec 2018Conditional

  construction of a single storey extension to the side of dwellinghouse, and a single storey extension to the rear of dwellinghouse, a new septic tank and percolation area, fencing of site boundaries and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601533

• 9 Apr 2018Conditional

  proposed new single storey and two storey extensions to existing dwelling, demolition of existing single storey shed structure, alterations to existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600426

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 Coolcroo.

Recorded monuments

• TN042-048 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture with extensive views. The poorly preserved remains of a possible T-plan tower house (ext. dims. 3.5m N-S; 10.9m E-W; wall T 1.55m) the N half of which survives to first-floor level only. The walls are constructed with roughly coursed limestone rubble with prominent base-batter. A small tower projecting from the N wall survives to second-floor level and contains a garderobe, the outlet of which is visible at base of the N wall. The ground floor has a barrel-vaulted chamber orientated on an E-W axis, with a small recess containing a slit ope and a gun loop in the N wall and a secret chamber over the recess at mezzanine level. This secret chamber is accessed from the first-floor chamber in the N tower. Mural stairs in the E wall lead to a lobby in the NE angle which accesses the first-floor chamber and the smaller chamber in the N tower from which the garderobe and upper tower chambers are reached. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN042-051 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a low rise of rock outcrop in slightly undulating countryside. A poorly preserved site comprising of a circular area (diam. 25m NW- SE) enclosed by a low earth and stone bank mainly reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m) with a possible destroyed entrance gap at W. A silage pit is located immediately S of the site. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Coolcroo, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Coolcroo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Coolcroo · Cúil Chrú

Area

779,087 m² (77.91 ha, 192.52 acres)

Civil parish

Twomileborris, and its townlands

Barony

Eliogarty

Electoral division

Littleton, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,057 people lived in 378 households in the Littleton electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 13% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydavid, Ballyerk, Monaraheen, Rathcunikeen

Placenames

Coolcroo 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.