Cooltrim North
Townland in the civil parish of Donadea, barony of Ikeathy and Oughterany, Co. Kildare; in Irish Cúil Troim Thuaidh
- Area
- 63.7 ha
- 157 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 3,982 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooltrim North, from 403 m² to 227,008 m² (22.7 ha, 56.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Cooltrim North 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
21 Aug 2026N/a
The development consists of single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter, driveway and entrance together with all associated site works.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660947
16 Apr 2025Refused
for single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter, driveway and entrance together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560404
7 Apr 2025N/a
for single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter, driveway and entrance together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560360
7 Sept 2022Conditional
(a) To demolish existing detached outbuilding; (b) To change the use of the existing vernacular stone barn and outbuildings to residential use and domestic storage with alterations of a minimalist nature incidental to the intended use including the re-roofing of same; (c) To provide a storey and a half link and side extension 'bedroom element' on the footprint of the demolished outbuilding mentioned at (a) above; (d) A single storey extension to front (south elevation); (e) To install onsite waste water treatment system to current EPA guidelines, and (f) For all associated site works including the provision of a new entrance and driveway
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221098
29 Jan 2019Conditional
retention of existing single-storey extensions and dormer roof windows to the front and rear of the existing house, retention of general alterations to the existing house and retention of the installation of an existing proprietary effluent treatment system and polishing filter area on the site
Retention · Kildare County Council, 1975
16 Jan 2019N/a
Retention of existing single-storey extensions and construction of dormer roof windows to the front and rear of their existing house, general alterations and the installation of a new proprietary effluent treatment system & polishing filter area on the site
Retention · Kildare County Council, 1924
20 Dec 2018N/a
of existing single storey extensions and construction of dormer roof windows to the front and rear of their existing house, general alterations and the installation of a new proprietary effluent treatment system and polishing filter area on the site
Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181562
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 Cooltrim North.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cooltrim North.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cooltrim North.
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 20 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 Cooltrim North.
- 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 Cooltrim North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Cooltrim North · Cúil Troim Thuaidh
- Area
- 636,971 m² (63.7 ha, 157.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donadea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ikeathy and Oughterany
- Electoral division
- Donadea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Donadea electoral division: 857 people in 284 households; 88% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghafullim, Cooltrim South, Donadea, Fanaghs, Kilmagorroge, Tirmoghan Common
- Placenames
- Cooltrim North 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.