Coolnasmear Upper

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolnasmear Upper, from 16 m² to 348,784 m² (34.88 ha, 86.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Coolnasmear Upper 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.

• 28 Mar 2022Conditional

  a overground slurry tower, reception tank and associated works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 22241

• 4 Jun 2020Conditional

  the development will consist of alterations and extension to existing school including waste water treatment system, polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 20320

• 7 May 2019Refused

  development consisting of alterations and extension to existing school including waste water treatment system, polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 19304

• 26 Mar 2019N/a

  development consisting of alterations and extension to existing school including waste water treatment system, polishing filter and all associated works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 19200

• 20 Apr 2017Conditional

  temporary pre-fab classroom

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 17270

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 Coolnasmear Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WA023-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and known locally as a 'lios'. It is located at the N edge of a plateau overlooking the ravine of the E-W Glendermot River with the stream c. 150m to the N. This is a subcircular area (dims. 31m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by a stone-faced earthen bank (Wth 2.5-3m; H 1m) NW-SE which is interrupted by gates at N and SE. Farm buildings and stone field walls are visible at S and W. Spoil, probably from the interior, has been pushed against the inner face of the bank, and it is utilised as a haggard. 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. Date of upload/revision: 25th March, 2011. Compiled by: Michael Moore

• WA023-015 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a W-facing slope at the W foothills of the Monavullagh Mountains. Traces of a slightly dished, grass-covered area (dims. 20m E-W; 18m N-S) are visible. 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. Date of upload/revision: 25th March, 2011. Compiled by: Michael Moore

• WA023-021 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in pasture on a broad hill, it is not visible at ground level. 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. Date of upload/revision: 27-08-2009

• WA023-022 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in pasture within a slight col, it is not visible at ground level. 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. Date of upload/revision: 27-08-2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 Coolnasmear Upper, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Coolnasmear Upper · Cúil na Sméar Uachtarach

Area

1,580,955 m² (158.1 ha, 390.66 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgobnet, and its townlands

Barony

Decies Without Drum

Electoral division

Bohadoon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

326 people lived in 110 households in the Bohadoon electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyknock Upper, Bohadoon South, Bohadoonmountain, Coolnasmear Lower, Coolnasmearmountain, Knockaunagloon

Placenames

Coolnasmear Upper 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.