Coolaght

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolaght, from 6 m² to 445,617 m² (44.56 ha, 110.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Coolaght 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.

• 18 Jul 2025Conditional

  for (A) construction of a two storey type house, (B) garage / store for domestic use, (C) the installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment system with polishing filter percolation area, and (D) Upgrading works to the existing farm entrance gateway and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560817

• 17 May 2024N/a

  the removal of vegetation and overlying soils and subsoils; The extraction of up to 4,000,000 tonnes of sand and gravel on a phased basis from an area of approximately 8.3 hectares to a final floor level at 98.00 metre above Ordnance Datum (aOD); The infilling of the lands using inert materials/ waste on a phased basis, following the extraction of sand and gravel; The restoration of the lands back to original ground level for agricultural use; All related ancillary development and associated site works including provision of landscaped screening berms and all other related activities. The development is within an overall application area of 11.09 hectares. Permission is being sought for a total period of 20 years; the sand and gravel extraction operational period is for 20 years. A licence application will be made to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for relevant activities. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) has been prepared and submitted in respect of this planning application. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of revised plans and revisions to the EIAR.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460437

• 8 Mar 2024Refused

  The development will consist of the following: The removal of woodland, vegetation and overlying soils & subsoils; the extraction of sand and gravel on a phased basis from an area of c. 8.65 ha to a final floor level at 95 mOD; the infilling of the lands using inert waste on a phased basis following the extraction of sand and gravel; the restoration of the lands back to original ground level and the establishment of native woodland planting; all related ancillary development and associated site works including processing (crushing, screening and washing) and stockpiling of materials; installation of infrastructure for the management of water on site; provision of landscaped screening berms and all other related activities. Provision of a site office, toilet (portaloo), canteen, weighbridge, wheelwash and site entrance; The proposed development is within an overall application area of c. 13.2 hectares and is for a total period of 34 years (the sand and gravel extraction operational period is for 20 years and the importation of materials for restoration is for a further 14 years). An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) has been prepared in respect of this planning application. Part of the proposed restoration element of the development will require a waste licence from the Environmental Protection Agency. Revised by significant further information which relates to the proposed operational lifetime of the development. Initially, the project was proposed to have an operational period of 34 years. Following feedback from the Planning Authority, this has been revised to a shorter operational period of 25 years.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460202

• 22 Feb 2024Conditional

  for the installation of ground mounted solar panels with an overall area of 108.52 sq.m. The panels are to be grouped in three banks of 4.55m x 7.95m each and are to be located on the rear garden of the existing farm house, adjacent to the farm yard

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2468

• 21 Dec 2020Conditional

  (a) Single-storey side extension to existing single storey dwelling, (b) Alteration to windows on the front façade & (c) Change existing façade finish from dry dash to wet dash, using existing vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201578

• 9 Dec 2020Conditional

  (a) Single storey extension to front gable (north west elevation) and minor alterations to existing pitched roof front porch and replaced with a sheet metal flat roof porch to the existing dormer type house, and (b) Extension and alteration to existing flat roof garage consisting of extension to front (north) elevation and rear (south) elevation and side (east) elevation with gabled dormer roof over the existing flat roof garage to form first floor storage area as to similar approved extension previously granted under file Ref. 08/1203

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201506

• 5 Oct 2020Refused

  deforestation of part of my lands comprising of 16.53 hectares of mixed broadleaf forest for conversion to agricultural land,

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201152

• 25 Sept 2020N/a

  deforestation of part of my lands comprising 16.53 hectares of mixed broadleaf forest for conversion to agricultural land

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201102

• 2 Jun 2020N/a

  (ABP Decision http://www.pleanala.ie/casenum/307284.htm Case is due to be decided by 05/10/2020 by ABP ) Application to An Bord Pleanála for Substitute Consent to regularise the status of historic peat extraction (and ancillary works) on the milled peat production bogs of the Kilberry Bog Group

  N/a · Kildare County Council, 20307284

• 20 May 2019N/a

  The construction of a two storey, detached, 309.57m2 farmhouse; with new foul treatment system and percolation area; new piers and entrance gates to new vehicular entrance; as well as all associated and ancillary site and ground works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19563

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 Coolaght.

Recorded monuments

• KD018-037 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of large enclosure (approx. diam. 65m NW-SE x 73m NE-SW) intersected at N by a field boundary visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Faint suggestions of an inner enclosure and internal banks forming possible sub-divisions within the enclosure. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Faith Bailey. Date of upload: 20 November 2018

• KD018-038 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of bivallate enclosure (approx. diam. 30m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Cropmark of enclosure (KD018-039----) 30m to W. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Faith Bailey. Date of upload: 20 November 2018

• KD018-039 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of enclosure (approx. dims. 17m E-W x 12m N-S) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Cropmark of bivallate enclosure (KD018-038----) 30m to W. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Faith Bailey. Date of upload: 20 November 2018

• KD018-040 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of oval-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 30m WSW-ENE X 25m NNW-SSE) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Faith Bailey. Date of upload: 20 November 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Coolaght, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Coolaght with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Coolaght

Area

2,366,824 m² (236.68 ha, 584.85 acres)

Civil parish

Rathernan, and its townlands

Barony

Connell

Electoral division

Kilmeage South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,224 people lived in 743 households in the Kilmeage South electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Grangeclare East, Kilmeage, Lattensbog, Mylerstown, Newtowndonore, Robertstown East

Placenames

Coolaght 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.