Coolane
Townland in the civil parish of Kilkea, barony of Kilkea and Moone, Co. Kildare; in Irish An Collán
- Area
- 98.8 ha
- 244 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 11,950 m² (1.19 ha, 2.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolane, from 137 m² to 166,806 m² (16.68 ha, 41.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Coolane 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
28 Sept 2023Conditional
for (i) Extension to the existing sand and gravel pit with an extraction area of 4.890 hectares; (ii) Use of the existing sand and gravel pit for processing, storage of processed and unprocessed aggregates over an area of 4.681 hectares; (iii) Provision of mobile screening plant (no washing of aggregates will take place on site) and installation of a wheelwash within the existing sand and gravel pit; (iv) Restoration of the existing sand and gravel pit and proposed extension area to agricultural use with a combined total area of 9.571 hectares; (v) and all other ancillary site development works and activities associated with the proposed development. The duration for which the planning permission is sought is ten (10) years. Planning permission was previously granted for the existing sand and gravel pit and proposed extension area under Reg. Ref. 05/2340 as approved by An Bord Pleanala PL09.218352 and an extension of duration was also approved by Kildare County Council under Reg. Ref. 15/125 – Planning permission for both the existing sand and gravel pit and proposed extension have expired as has the extension of duration. No works have taken place since planning permission expired. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted to the planning authority with the application. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of the submission of a Site Restoration Plan.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360256
10 Feb 2020Conditional
EXTENSION OF DURATION: (14/1067) to construct a single storey dwelling, new domestic entrance, bored well, waste water treatment system and all associated site works including the installation of a mobile home for the duration of the construction period, with temporary connection to the proposed well and waste water treatment system
Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 20104
7 Mar 2018Conditional
the erection of a calf house and a soiled water tank with all associated facilities and site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 18225
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 Coolane.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolane.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolane.
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 10 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_2576 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Coolane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Coolane · An Collán
- Area
- 987,547 m² (98.75 ha, 244.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilkea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilkea and Moone
- Electoral division
- Kilkea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilkea electoral division: 441 people in 143 households; 89% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyvass, Hallahoise, Kilkea Upper, Mullaghreelan, Skenagun
- Placenames
- Coolane 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.