Coolroe
Coolroe is a townland in the civil parish of Moyacomb, barony of St. Mullin's Upper, Co. Carlow. Its name in Irish is An Chúil Rua.
- Area
- 225.3 ha
- 557 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 8,519 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolroe, from 1,889 m² to 308,472 m² (30.85 ha, 76.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Coolroe 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
5 Jul 2024Conditional
to construct a dwelling house with services, agri workshop shed and all associated site works on lands
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2460190
21 Feb 2024Conditional
revisions to an existing sunroom to the (western) side of the existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2460036
15 Mar 2023Conditional
the demolition of an existing sunroom and construction of a two story extension to the side of an existing dwelling house, extension to existing perculation area and all associated site and landscaping works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2360032
23 Feb 2023Conditional
Retention permission is sought for revisions made to the front elevation of dwelling permitted under PL ref No. 7406, Retention Permission is also sought for the as-built dormer type extension to same
Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2360023
23 Apr 2021Conditional
Permission to construct a two-storey dwelling house, garage, new site entrance, bored well, septic tank and associated percolation area, all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 21137
3 Dec 2018Conditional
for the erection of a dwelling house with treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 18470
18 May 2018Conditional
the construction of a single storey dwelling, septic tank and raised percolation area, new entrance, bored well, a domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 18201
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Coolroe.
Recorded monuments
- CW014-010 Cairn - unclassified
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 Large cairn (H 2.8m; diam. 22m) delimited by kerb of granite boulders, visible only at N and S.
- CW014-011 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 Very defaced traces of bank visible at SE in area now defined by irregular curve in field boundary and dump of field clearance stones (diam. c. 30m). Possibly a ringfort.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolroe.
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 Coolroe, 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 Coolroe.
- 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
No address of the register names Coolroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Coolroe · An Chúil Rua
- Area
- 2,252,606 m² (225.26 ha, 556.63 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moyacomb, and its townlands
- Barony
- St. Mullin's Upper
- Electoral division
- Ballintemple, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 599 people lived in 210 households in the Ballintemple electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintemple, Broomville or Clonachona, Craans, Monaughrim, Orchard, Woodlands
- Placenames
- Coolroe 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.