# Coolavacoose, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 757,767 m² (75.78 ha, 187.25 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,001 m² (0.2 ha, 0.49 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmore, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/kilmore.md - Barony: Carbury - Electoral division: Carbury, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25504 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80382 - Centre: latitude 53.349753, longitude -6.998238 (WGS 84) ## 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); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1015776: 412,642 m² (41.26 ha, 101.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1015776.md - Parcel 1038781: 140,059 m² (14.01 ha, 34.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1038781.md - Parcel 1021844: 52,778 m² (5.28 ha, 13.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021844.md - Parcel 1018855: 36,250 m² (3.62 ha, 8.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018855.md - Parcel 1065999: 26,025 m² (2.6 ha, 6.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1065999.md - Parcel 1046274: 24,679 m² (2.47 ha, 6.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1046274.md - Parcel 1046276: 19,168 m² (1.92 ha, 4.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1046276.md - Parcel 1020662: 7,621 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1020662.md - Parcel 4928627: 5,274 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4928627.md - Parcel 4928621: 4,280 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4928621.md - Parcel 1067658: 3,569 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1067658.md - Parcel 1040674: 2,933 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1040674.md - Parcel 1021450: 2,805 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021450.md - Parcel 1027057: 2,782 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1027057.md - Parcel 1031322: 2,335 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031322.md - Parcel 1016276: 2,051 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1016276.md - Parcel 1058584: 2,001 m² (0.2 ha, 0.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1058584.md - Parcel 4934900: 1,721 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4934900.md - Parcel 1059977: 1,533 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1059977.md - Parcel 1057094: 1,348 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1057094.md - Parcel 1034657: 1,250 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034657.md - Parcel 1017124: 1,074 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1017124.md - Parcel 1025761: 896 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1025761.md - Parcel 4928616: 757 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4928616.md - Parcel 1053950: 746 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053950.md - Parcel 4920157: 272 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4920157.md - Parcel 5056142: 271 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5056142.md - Parcel 4928420: 245 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4928420.md - Parcel 5044542: 178 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5044542.md - Parcel 4927388: 157 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4927388.md - Parcel 1090900: 49 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1090900.md - Parcel 5044543: 19 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5044543.md - Parcel 4903259: 1 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4903259.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 6 May 2026, Kildare County Council 2660490: N/a. Permission. Single-storey detached building comprising 4 new dressing rooms, each with integrated shower facilities, including all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660490/0 - 19 May 2023, Kildare County Council 23539: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23539/0 - 28 Apr 2023, Kildare County Council 23449: N/a. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23449/0 - 25 Mar 2022, Kildare County Council 22327: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/22327/0 - 14 Mar 2022, Kildare County Council 22279: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/22279/0 - 20 Mar 2020, Kildare County Council 20298: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20298/0 - 18 Oct 2018, Kildare County Council 181269: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/181269/0 - 23 Feb 2017, Kildare County Council 17195: Conditional. Permission. the installation of a drainage system to existing rugby pitches at the rear of the site. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17195/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Coolavacoose. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD008-022: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD008-022----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolavacoose. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2345.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kildare/coolavacoose.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/coolavacoose.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/coolavacoose.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Coolavacoose, Carbury: 5 sales, https://everytownland.com/kildare/coolavacoose-carbury.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Clonkeen: https://everytownland.com/kildare/clonkeen.md - Coolcor: https://everytownland.com/kildare/coolcor.md - Kishawanny Upper: https://everytownland.com/kildare/kishawanny-upper.md - Oldcourt: https://everytownland.com/kildare/oldcourt-80969.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kildare/coolavacoose - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/coolavacoose