Coolavacoose
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 75.8 ha
- 187 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 2,001 m² (0.2 ha, 0.49 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolavacoose, from 1 m² to 412,642 m² (41.26 ha, 101.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Coolavacoose 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
6 May 2026N/a
Single-storey detached building comprising 4 new dressing rooms, each with integrated shower facilities, including all associated site works.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660490
19 May 2023Conditional
a 2 storey extension to the existing club house to consist of changing rooms with integrated shower rooms at ground-floor and office meeting room at first floor. A new wastewater treatment system to service this development will also be included
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23539
28 Apr 2023N/a
a 2-storey extension to the existing club house to consist of changing rooms with integrated shower rooms at ground-floor and office/meeting room at first floor. A new wastewater treatment system to service this development will also be included.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23449
25 Mar 2022Conditional
for development at this site on lands at Oldcourt (Carbury By), Kishawanny Upper, Coolavacoose, Coolcor, Carbury, Co. Kildare. (A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of this application) The development will consist of planning permission for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a Solar PV Energy Development with a total site area of 121.55 hectares and an export capacity of 100MW, to include: Inverter/Transformer Substations, modules, 2,697 solar arrays ground mounted on support structures, temporary construction compounds, internal access tracks, security fencing, electrical cabling and ducting CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure, drainage, additional landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works relating to the access of the site. The solar farm will be operational for 35-years. Oldcourt House protected structure (B08-14), lies outside the developable area but inside the overall boundary. Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of this application
Permission · Kildare County Council, 22327
14 Mar 2022N/a
Development at this site on lands at Oldcourt (Carbury By), Kishawanny Upper, Coolavacoose, Coolcor, Carbury, Co. Kildare. The development will consist of planning permission for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a Solar PV Energy Development with a total site area of 121.55 hectares, to include: Inverter/Transformer Substations, modules, solar PV ground mounted on support structures, temporary construction compounds, internal access tracks, security fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure, drainage, additional landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works relating to the access of the site. The solar farm will be operational for 35 years. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of this planning application
Permission · Kildare County Council, 22279
20 Mar 2020Conditional
(a) Retention sought for relocation of front door, garage conversion, and new windows to rear of house. (b) Permission sought for - Phase 1: Single-storey extension to front of house, with new porch and upgraded sewer water treatment system. Phase 2: Single-storey bedroom and en-suite extension to rear of house and all other associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 20298
18 Oct 2018Conditional
floodlighting on the back pitch at the northern end of their site which will consist of the installation of 6 No. floodlighting masts including lamps and all ancillary ground and electric works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 181269
23 Feb 2017Conditional
the installation of a drainage system to existing rugby pitches at the rear of the site
Permission · Kildare County Council, 17195
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 Coolavacoose.
Recorded monuments
- KD008-022 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
In level tillage. Visible on a 1967 aerial photograph (CUCAP ATC 52) as the cropmark of a semicircular fosse enclosing the S-half of a probably originally circular area (est. max diam. c. 55m). The N portion of the site is overlain by a modern field bank and farm track running E-W. There is no visible surface trace of the monument and the area is under barley stubble. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolavacoose.
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 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_2345 (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
- Coolavacoose, Carbury5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Coolavacoose
- Area
- 757,767 m² (75.78 ha, 187.25 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Carbury, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carbury electoral division: 2,345 people in 780 households; 77% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonkeen, Coolcor, Kishawanny Upper, Oldcourt
- Placenames
- Coolavacoose 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.