Coolbooa

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolbooa, from 1 m² to 271,494 m² (27.15 ha, 67.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M4RV (Built up area)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 28 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 3 Feb 2026Conditional

  to demolish existing side extension and to construct a first floor extension over existing ground floor which will consist of alteration to the existing roof and to construct a single storey side and rear extension ,4.7 meters in height and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2611

• 20 Jan 2026N/a

  demolish existing side extension and to construct a first floor extension over existing ground floor which will consist of alterations to the existing roof and to construct a single storey side and rear extension 4.7 meters in height and all associated site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 261

• 18 Jun 2025Conditional

  Single storey dwelling house, entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2560430

• 18 Nov 2021Conditional

  construction of a new single storey dwelling, site works, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 211078

• 29 Apr 2021Refused

  construction of a new single storey dwelling, site works, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary works at

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 21355

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 Coolbooa.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolbooa.

Architectural heritage

• Clashmore Bridge, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arch rubble limestone road bride over river, c.1840. Random rubble limestone walls with rendered coping to parapets. Series of four round arches with squared rubble limestone voussoirs, and squared rubble stone soffits having lime mortar. Sited spanning Greagagh River with grass banks to river having random rubble stone retaining walls.

• Chimney, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay two-stage chimney, c.1830, on a square plan. Now disused. Random rubble stone walls to first stage with slight batter. Red brick irregular bond to second stage forming tapered shaft with advanced corner piers, and moulded cut-stone cornice over supporting blocking course (part disintegrated). Sited spanning Greagagh River on rubble stone footbridge.

• , 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron waterpump, c.1910, comprising fluted shaft with moulded necking having spout, and originally with fluted ogee-dome capping having acorn finial. Capping now missing. Sited at junction of two roads.

• Coolbooa House, house, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced six-bay two-storey house, c.1840, possibly originally two separate three-bay two-storey houses with segmental-headed carriageway to right ground floor. Refenestrated, c.1990. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1990. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door, and overlight. Segmental-headed carriageway with replacement timber panelled double doors, c.1990. Set back from line of road with painted roughcast boundary wall to forecourt having sections of wrought iron railings over, and wrought iron gate.

• Clashmore National School, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay single-storey Tudor-style national school, dated 1887, possibly originally detached on a T-shaped plan retaining some early fenestration with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting lower porch to centre, two-bay single-storey side elevation to north-east, and single-bay two-storey lower return to south-east. Part refenestrated, c.1965. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs on a T-shaped plan (gabled to porch) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, gabled lucarnes having louvered panel fittings, rendered bargeboards to porch, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls over random rubble stone construction with inscribed plaque to gable to porch, rendered date stone to gable to side (north-east) elevation having moulded surround, and some sections of exposed random rubble stone construction. Triangular-headed window openings with rendered sills (some without sills), and rendered hood mouldings on decorative drops. Replacement aluminium casement widows, c.1965, to front (north-west) elevation retaining early fixed-pane timber windows to remainder. Triangular-headed door opening with rendered hood moulding over on decorative drops, replacement timber panelled double doors, c.1965, and overlight. Set back from line of road on elevated base with painted rendered wall over random rubble stone construction, rendered coping, hoop iron railings over, and painted rendered piers to left with rendered capping, and hoop iron double gates.

• Saint Cronan's Catholic Church, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1827, on a cruciform plan comprising two-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height transepts to north and to south, single-bay double-height shallow chancel to east, and two-bay single-storey sacristy to east. Renovated, c.1930. Pitched slate roofs with decorative red clay ridge tiles, roughcast chimney stack to sacristy, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted replacement roughcast walls, c.1930, over random rubble stone construction. Pointed-arch window openings (lancet window openings to chancel) with stone sills, and rendered surrounds. Fixed-pane leaded stained glass windows with casement sections. Pointed-arch door openings with cut-limestone chamfered surrounds having hood mouldings over, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors with decorative wrought iron hinges. Square-headed window openings to sacristy with rendered sills, rendered surrounds, and replacement 2/2 timber sash windows, c.1930, having horizontal bias to panes. Square-headed door opening to sacristy with tongue-and-groove timber panelled door, and overlight. Full-height interior open into roof with carved timber pews, open work timber roof construction (with coffering to ceiling) on cut-stone corbels having trefoil-headed pierced detailing, Gothic-style reredos to chancel, ogee-headed arcades to transepts with moulded plasterwork surrounds on limestone ashlar polygonal piers, hood mouldings over, and timber panelled galleries to first floor to nave and transepts on cast-iron pillars. Set back from road in own grounds with random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site having cut-stone coping, sections of wrought iron railings over, and rendered intermediary piers. (ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers, c.1830 - present.

• Vent pipe, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron vent pipe, c.1890, comprising fluted pedestal with moulded necking, and cylindrical shaft over having splayed saw tooth-profiled parapet. Now disused. Road fronted.

• Glebe House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement glebe house, c.1820, retaining original aspect with single-bay three-storey side elevations, two-bay two-storey return to north-east, and single-bay single-storey over basement lean-to infill bay to north. Now in private residential use. Hipped slate roofs (lean-to to infill bay) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and 6/6 timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening in round-headed recess with flight of four cut-limestone steps, timber panelled door, and fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with tarmacadam forecourt approached by avenue, and landscaped grounds to site.

• Glebe House, gate lodge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-store gate lodge, c.1820. Now disused and derelict. Hipped slate roof (mostly collapsed) with clay ridge tiles, roughcast chimney stack, and no rainwater goods on overhanging rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and remains of timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with remains of timber panelled door. Set back from line of road in grounds shared with Clashmore Glebe House.(ii) Gateway, c.1820, to south comprising unpainted roughcast curved walls with unpainted rendered terminating piers having unpainted roughcast panels (inner piers now gone).

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 Coolbooa, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Coolbooa with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Coolbooa · Cúil Bua

Area

871,685 m² (87.17 ha, 215.4 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

Ballyheeny, Ballynamultina, Clashmore, Kilgabriel

Placenames

Coolbooa 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.