Coolkereen

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolkereen, from 282 m² to 218,403 m² (21.84 ha, 53.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.

• G1Amenity (Open space, park)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 4 Sept 2025Conditional

  the installation of 6 no. new 20m lighting columns complete with 5 no. LED pitch floodlights on each column to illuminate the training pitch and replace the current pitch lighting system on site. Permission is also sought for 13 no. streetlights on 6m lighting columns including associated civils to replace the existing perimeter walkway lighting system on site

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560865

• 7 Feb 2024Conditional

  extension of the existing gate lodge for residential use and all associated ancillary development works (Protected Structure)

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460076

• 1 Sept 2023Conditional

  replacement of existing sub-standard pitch flood lights and poles (4 No.) with new light pillars and upgraded pitch lighting (4 No.) - LED type

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 23236

• 18 Jul 2018Conditional

  a dwellinghouse, garage, waste water treatment system, driveway, access via existing entrance to be upgraded along with all ancillary site works - Outline Planning Permission Ref No 18600109

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600919

• 1 Feb 2018Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system, driveway, access via existing entrance to be upgraded, along with all ancillary site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600109

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 Coolkereen.

Recorded monuments

• TN022-026001 Church
  Description

  No visible remains. The nineteenth-century church of Ireland church in the village of Toomevara may be located on the site of a possible medieval church. Site of medieval church mentioned in Gleesons article on the churches of Ormond and Arra (Gleeson 1951-2, 134). 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

• TN022-026002 Graveyard
  Description

  No visible remains. The nineteenth-century church of Ireland church in the village of Toomevara may be located on the site of a possible medieval church. Site of church mentioned in Gleesons article on the churches of Ormond and Arra (Gleeson 1951-2, 134). 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

• Riverglebe House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan rectory, built c.1820, comprising three-bay two-storey front elevation and two-bay two-storey over half-basement elsewhere, with lower two-bay two-storey mono-pitched and flat-roof entrance block added to front. Now in use as private house. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks with limestone copings. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane, with three-over-three to first floor of front, with limestone sills. Round-headed window to east elevation, and rear ground floor windows lengthened. Replacement timber door in recessed doorway with ornate fanlight and limestone steps. Rubble limestone outbuildings, that to south with hipped slate roof, that to west with pitched slate roof, dressed quoins and surrounds and voussoirs to openings. Gate lodge with hexagonal plan and fish-scale slate roof, and decorative cast-iron railings, piers and gates to site.

• Toomyvara Church (Aghnameadle), church/chapel, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built c.1810, having two-stage entrance tower to west, three-bay nave and with vestry to northeast. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs, with crenellations and pinnacles to tower and with cut limestone finials to gables. Rendered walls having limestone quoins and plinth and with string courses to tower. Snecked limestone rubble with chamfered dressed quoins to second stage of tower. Lancet and pointed-arch window openings with timber sliding sash fifteen-over-fifteen pane windows, those to centre bays having Y-tracery and double timber sash windows, all having cut limestone sills, hood-mouldings and chamfered surrounds. Y-tracery and stained glass to east window. Four-centred-arch opening in tower with decorative timber panelled door in chamfered surround with label-moulding. Graveyard around church. Carved limestone piers with decorative cast-iron gates to site boundary.

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 Coolkereen, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Coolkereen · Cúil Chéirín

Area

587,392 m² (58.74 ha, 145.15 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnameadle, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Upper

Electoral division

Latteragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

690 people lived in 275 households in the Latteragh electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunacum, Castlequarter, Clonalea, Knockane, Pallas East, Pallas West

Placenames

Coolkereen 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.