Coolbagh
Coolbagh is a townland in the civil parish of Clashmore, barony of Decies Within Drum, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is Cúil Bheitheach.
- Area
- 294.7 ha
- 728 acres
- Land parcels
- 89
- registered freehold, median 8,192 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolbagh, from 59 m² to 366,191 m² (36.62 ha, 90.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coolbagh 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
3 Sept 2026N/a
to construct new cubicle shed with slatted tanks, feed passage, dungstead and all associated site works.
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2692
24 Jan 2022Conditional
RETENTION permission for existing sunroom and entrance
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2237
6 Aug 2021Conditional
Section 254 Licence Application - The erection of overground electronic communications infrastructure and any associated physical infrastructure along public roads including:- 1. The erection of new overground fibre optic cables on existing timber poles 2. The erection of new poles and associated fibre optic cables (2021WD0329)
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 21819
8 Jun 2021Conditional
Change of house plans to PD 19/512 and auxiliary site services
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 21535
11 Jul 2019Conditional
to construct dormer dwelling, entrance, treatment plant, percolation area and auxillary site services
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 19512
10 May 2019Conditional
to construct a new single-storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling together with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 19315
7 Mar 2019Conditional
to construct a 1 & 1/2 storey dwelling, garage, entrance, laneway, wastewater treatment system with percolation area, borehole, soakpits and all other associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 19153
17 Jan 2019Conditional
dwelling, stables and all associated site works
Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 1917
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackwater River And Estuary 000072
Recorded monuments
- WA034-025 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a slight N-facing rise in a slight col on a N-S ridge, with slightly higher ground c. 570m to the N and c. 770m to the S. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 37.5m E-W; 34.2m N-S) defined by an overgrown earth and stone bank (Wth 3.5-5.5m; int. H 1-1.3m; ext. H 1.3-1.5m). The entrance (Wth 2.9m) is at NW, but there is no visible fosse. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 02 October 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolbagh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Coolbagh, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolbagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Coolbagh, Clashmore7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Coolbagh · Cúil Bheitheach
- Area
- 2,946,709 m² (294.67 ha, 728.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clashmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Decies Within Drum
- Electoral division
- Clashmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 466 people lived in 178 households in the Clashmore electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynaclash, Clashmore, Craggs, Kilmore, Knockanearis, Tinnascart
- Placenames
- Coolbagh 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.