Coolrake

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolrake, from 1,957 m² to 613,208 m² (61.32 ha, 151.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Coolrake 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.

• 7 Nov 2022Conditional

  bungalow, garage, store, barn and recessed entrance and permission is sought for upgrading of existing effluent treatment system

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221318

• 14 Jun 2018Conditional

  of basement element to existing dormer bungalow as constructed, retention of existing detached stable block (2 no. stables) as constructed and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 18708

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 Coolrake.

Recorded monuments

• KD038-009 Moated site
  Description

  Shown as a small, rectangular enclosure on the 1837 and 1908 OS 6-inch maps (max dims. c. 25m E-W x c. 20m N-S). Described in 1955 (Danaher 1955, no. 312) as a square enclosure with a small platform at centre. No visible surface trace. Date of upload: 15 September 2016

• KD038-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Circular area (diam. 25m) surrounded by an earthen bank and external fosse. Entrance at the NE. A low bank outside the fosse is possibly modified or relatively modern. Situated on a ridge in pasture land. Date of upload: 15 September 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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

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

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

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.

No address of the register names Coolrake with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Coolrake

Area

1,002,768 m² (100.28 ha, 247.79 acres)

Civil parish

Killelan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Carrigeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrigeen electoral division: 644 people in 235 households; 89% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Collin, Commonstown, Davidstown, Sheriffhill, Simonstown East

Placenames

Coolrake 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.