Coolyhune

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolyhune, from 1,549 m² to 288,439 m² (28.84 ha, 71.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Coolyhune 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.

• 21 May 2025Conditional

  the construction of a proposed part 1.5 storey, part single storey dwelling, detached shed, new vehicular entrance, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560133

• 13 Mar 2023Conditional

  permission to construct a milking parlour with silos, drafting and handling area, waiting yard and slatted tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2351

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 Coolyhune.

Recorded monuments

• CW024-015 Bastioned fort
  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 Pentagonal fort with bastions enclosing summit of hill. Walls of drystone construction (ext. max. H 2.2m, int. H 0.6-2m; top Wth c. 1.2m, base Wth c. 1.5-1.8m), with slight external batter. Construction suggests fairly recent origin, possibly connected with events of 1798. (dims. of interior (excluding bastions) 60m x 60.5m; L of bastion 18m; max. Wth of bastion 20m; Wth of opening to bastions 17.6m). Rebuilding in some areas; entrance gap at S probably not original.

• CW024-033 Enclosure
  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 1839 'OS 6-inch' map as small rectangular enclosure defined by bank (max. dims. c. 30m NE-SW, 40m NW-SE). Marked 'Site of Fort' on 1874 OS 6" map. No visible surface trace although field boundary (earthen with drystone facing) may incorporate portion of N side of former monument.

• CW024-034 Moated site
  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 rectangular area enclosed by fosse (max. dims. c. 50m NW-SE, 40m NE-SW) with probable leat in short south-east side. Levelled 1961 (Barry 1977, 184). Probably a moated site.

• CW024-053 Ritual site - holy well
  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 Associated according to local tradition with 'St Loctrin'. No longer visited.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2517 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Coolyhune with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Coolyhune · Cúil Uí Chomhain

Area

2,443,291 m² (244.33 ha, 603.75 acres)

Civil parish

St. Mullins, and its townlands

Barony

St. Mullin's Lower

Electoral division

Tinnahinch, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tinnahinch electoral division: 654 people in 252 households; 87% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhegan, Ballyling, Carriglead, Knockeen, Marley or Knockduff, Newtown

Placenames

Coolyhune 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.