Coolmanagh Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Haroldstown, barony of Rathvilly, Co. Carlow; in Irish Cúil Mhaine Íochtarach
- Area
- 120.5 ha
- 298 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 15,941 m² (1.59 ha, 3.94 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolmanagh Lower, from 129 m² to 296,018 m² (29.6 ha, 73.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coolmanagh Lower 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
7 May 2026Conditional
proposed storage and processing building adjacent to existing buildings in complex and all associated works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660133
6 Jun 2019Conditional
to extend existing poultry units which will consist of the following; (1) proposed extension to existing combined poultry units 1 & 2 on the west elevation and, (2) proposed extension to existing poultry unit 3 on the west elevation, and all ancillary site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 19228
28 Nov 2017N/a
Planning permission to extend existing poultry units which will consist of the following: 1) proposed extension to existing combined poultry units 1 & 2 on the west elevation and, 2) proposed extension to existing poultry unit 3 on the west elevation, and all ancillary site works.
Permission · Carlow County Council, 17338
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: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
Recorded monuments
- CW004-039 Ringfort - rath
Description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Shown on 1908 'OS 6-inch' map as circular area (max. diam. c. 50m) surrounded by bank, except from N-NE where bank has been replaced by field boundary. No visible surface traces.
- CW004-040 Ringfort - rath
Description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Circular area (diam. c. 30m) surrounded by large earthen bank with external fosse. Entrance with causeway at NW.
- CW004-044 Earthwork
Description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Earthworks visible on aerial photographs (GSI S 14), apparently artificial, but obscured by dense vegetation at time of inspection.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolmanagh Lower.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolmanagh Lower.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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
No address of the register names Coolmanagh Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Coolmanagh Lower · Cúil Mhaine Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,205,089 m² (120.51 ha, 297.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Haroldstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathvilly
- Electoral division
- Haroldstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Haroldstown electoral division: 314 people in 101 households; 90% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolmanagh Upper, Knocklishen More, Nashe's Quarter, Raheen, Williamstown
- Placenames
- Coolmanagh Lower 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.