Coolkill

169 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolkill, from 29 m² to 108,744 m² (10.87 ha, 26.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 45 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• M4White Lands (Built up area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 81 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 19 Nov 2025Conditional

  for construction of proposed playing pitch and vehicle access ramp along with alterations to existing site levels 2) Erection of floodlights, goalposts, ball nets, fencing, and 2 no. dugouts, 3) erection of retaining walls to perimeter of playing field 4) All associated works and services

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560683

• 27 Apr 2022Conditional

  to erect 2 no. terraced blocks containing 11 two story town house type dwellings (6 no. 3 bedroom and 5 no. 2 bedroom), connections to existing onsite services, car parking, boundary treatments and all ancillary and associated works Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.

  Permission, 11 homes · Cavan County Council, 22168

• 18 Oct 2021Conditional

  construct a private dwelling house, private garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21639

• 11 Aug 2021Conditional

  to (a) change the use of ground floor of existing domestic garage to use as a domestic gym, (b) construct a single storey extension to rear of existing domestic garage, to contain swimming pool for domestic use, (c) together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21503

• 26 Jun 2020Conditional

  to retain a single storey extension to the side of a two storey dwelling linking the dwelling and domestic garage, retain attic conversion, new chimney, increased roof height & other alterations to dwelling & domestic garage elevations, retain single storey domestic shed, walls, piers, gates and site entrance layout

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20245

• 7 Apr 2020Conditional

  to form training/playing field and all associated works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 20125

• 27 Feb 2019Conditional

  to demolish existing 2 storey dwelling house and construct a replacement 2 storey dwelling with single storey projection to rear together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1960

• 15 Sept 2017Conditional

  to (a) demolish 1 No. 2 storey derelict building and 1 no. single storey derelict building and replace with (b) 1 No. 2 storey extension to existing building (c) 1 No. 2 storey building comprising of offices, storage, staff room, staff toilets, domestic car port, domestic garage and domestic storage area, (d) provide staff car parking area, and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 17398

• 16 Aug 2017N/a

  to (a) demolish 1 no. 2 storey derelict building and 1 no. single storey derelict building and replace with (b) 1 no. 2 storey extension to existing dwelling (c) 1 no 2 storey building comprising of offices, storage, staff room, staff toilets, domestic car port, domestic garage and domestic storage area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Cavan County Council, 17363

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 Coolkill.

Recorded monuments

• CV038-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 39m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank which has been considerably modified and incorporated into the field boundary. Original entrance not recognisable. The site was formerly planted with trees. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

• St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic Revival single-cell Roman Catholic church, built 1882, with five-bay nave having bellcote to east end, gabled sacristy to south-east, flat-roofed porches, added 1973, to west front and south. Pitched slate roof with decorative terracotta ridge tiles. Raised limestone bargestones on moulded kneelers, limestone crucifix to gable, wrought-iron to belfry and porch. Pedimented roughcast bellcote with limestone coping and quoins, having bronze bell in semi-circular opening. Dressed limestone and rendered chimneystack to south pitch of nave at sacristy, cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls over raised smooth-rendered plinth with dressed limestone quoins and insets to gables. Date plaque of 1882 incorporated into wall of later entrance porch. Pointed arch window openings, graduated triple windows to gable front, paired windows to east gable and porch, and single windows to nave, all having original leaded stained glass windows, dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds and sills, some with rock-faced limestone relieving arches. One quatrefoil window at high level to east gable and one lozenge-shaped window to south-west elevation with same surrounds. Original pointed arch door obscured by later porch to west front, having replacement timber sheeted doors and stained glass overlights set in chamfered dressed limestone surrounds. Similar replacement doors to south porch. Interior re-ordered with raised altar to centre of nave, central nave window to north blocked to accommodate reredos. Timber boarded ceiling with exposed arched timber trusses on stone brackets. Set back from road and bounded by steel railing and coursed rubble limestone wall with Scotch copings.

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 20 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; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Coolkill, Kilnaleck10 sales

Name

Coolkill · An Chúlchoill

Area

1,676,156 m² (167.62 ha, 414.19 acres)

Civil parish

Crosserlough, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Kilnaleck, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilnaleck electoral division: 1,216 people in 442 households; 69% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnahederny, Crosserlough, Drumroragh, Kilnaleck, Mullacastle, Tonylion, Tullyboy

Placenames

Coolkill 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.