# Coolcor, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Carbury, barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,429,599 m² (142.96 ha, 353.26 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 36,595 m² (3.66 ha, 9.04 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Carbury, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/carbury.md - Barony: Carbury - Electoral division: Carbury, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,345 people lived in 780 households in the Carbury electoral division. 77% of households owned 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/25497 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80384 - Centre: latitude 53.358252, longitude -6.99255 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolcor, from 2,259 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 259,222 m² (25.92 ha, 64.06 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1058225: 259,222 m² (25.92 ha, 64.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1058225.md - Parcel 1013237: 249,571 m² (24.96 ha, 61.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1013237.md - Parcel 1014705: 180,089 m² (18.01 ha, 44.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1014705.md - Parcel 1034655: 138,081 m² (13.81 ha, 34.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034655.md - Parcel 1058227: 138,023 m² (13.8 ha, 34.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1058227.md - Parcel 1038779: 109,737 m² (10.97 ha, 27.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1038779.md - Parcel 1018403: 100,197 m² (10.02 ha, 24.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018403.md - Parcel 1017122: 67,600 m² (6.76 ha, 16.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1017122.md - Parcel 1075995: 40,574 m² (4.06 ha, 10.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1075995.md - Parcel 1018853: 36,595 m² (3.66 ha, 9.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018853.md - Parcel 1027054: 21,958 m² (2.2 ha, 5.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1027054.md - Parcel 1081083: 20,535 m² (2.05 ha, 5.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1081083.md - Parcel 1016274: 14,708 m² (1.47 ha, 3.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1016274.md - Parcel 2519534: 12,103 m² (1.21 ha, 2.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2519534.md - Parcel 1058582: 4,919 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1058582.md - Parcel 1090901: 3,624 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1090901.md - Parcel 6036162: 3,236 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6036162.md - Parcel 1015604: 2,340 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1015604.md - Parcel 1021445: 2,259 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021445.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Coolcor 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 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 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 Coolcor. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolcor. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolcor. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Coolcor, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2344, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2344.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/coolcor.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/coolcor.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/coolcor.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Coolcor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carbury: https://everytownland.com/kildare/carbury.md - Clonkeen: https://everytownland.com/kildare/clonkeen.md - Coolavacoose: https://everytownland.com/kildare/coolavacoose.md - Haggard: https://everytownland.com/kildare/haggard.md - Oldcourt: https://everytownland.com/kildare/oldcourt-80969.md - Teelough: https://everytownland.com/kildare/teelough.md - Windmill: https://everytownland.com/kildare/windmill.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/coolcor - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/coolcor