Coonagh
Coonagh is a townland in the civil parish of Ardkill, barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare. Its name in Irish is Cuanach.
- Area
- 160.9 ha
- 398 acres
- Land parcels
- 116
- registered freehold, median 2,335 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
116 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coonagh, from 70 m² to 183,591 m² (18.36 ha, 45.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coonagh 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
11 Jun 2026N/a
A) to construct a new 45m x 60m permeable all weather synthetic grass (astro) training pitch/facility including fencing and lighting to perimeter edges, B) extension to existing permeable gravel surface car-park, C) the erection of ball wall, adjacent to the existing Astro Turf pitches. The ball wall will be 5 meters high and 22 meters long, D) perimeter walking track, all lighting facilities associated with the above project are for the purposes of sports training/playing in the hours of darkness
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660626
9 Mar 2026N/a
(A) Internal alterations to the existing dwelling; (B) Construction of a new two-bedroom dormer extension to the front and side of the existing house; (C) Replacement of the existing recessed vehicular entrance with a new recessed vehicular entrance for safety improvement purposes, together with works to the access driveway and all associated site works, including boundary treatments.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660254
29 Aug 2024Conditional
Retention Permission for (A) change of use of existing garage to a family apartment to the rear of the existing house & including the increase in height to a storey and a half to that previously granted planning under file ref: 09/29. (B) Planning Permission for single storey connecting link from the family apartment to the existing house
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460844
6 Apr 2023Conditional
the development will consist of: A) demolishing existing singly storey annexes to rear and side of dwelling B) alterations to existing plan & all elevations. C) construction of a part single storey and part 2 storey extension to side and rear of existing single storey dwelling. D) construction of a new singly storey domestic garage E) installation of a new waste water treatment system F) relocating the position of the existing vehicle entrance and construction of new entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23369
29 Jul 2021Conditional
single storey extension to gable end of existing bungalow containing entrance lobby and living area and all associated works and services
Permission · Kildare County Council, 211100
4 Jun 2021Refused
the construction of a detached one and half storey house with single storey element, detached domestic garage, secondary effluent treatment system and recessed entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 21810
25 Mar 2020Conditional
change of house type on previously approved site Pl Ref. No. 19/575. The proposed house consists of a single storey bungalow, effluent treatment plant and all associated site development works. New domestic garage and all associated site development works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 20321
13 Mar 2020Conditional
(a) Demolishing existing front porch and old single storey rear extension (b) Alterations to existing layout & all elevations (c) Construction of a single storey and 2 storey extension to side and rear of existing 2 storey dwelling, new patio area to the south (d) Construction of a new single storey domestic garage (e) Installation of a new waste water treatment system (f) Alterations to existing vehicular entrance and construction of a new agricultural entrance to farm and all ancillary site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 20265
22 May 2019Conditional
Single storey dwelling house, effluent treatment plant ,landscaping, site entrance and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19575
19 Dec 2018N/a
a storey and a half dwelling and a domestic garage and an entrance and a connection to public services and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181543
24 Aug 2018Conditional
For the demolition of an existing cottage and ancillary out buildings and the construction of a replacement dormer bungalow type dwelling, detached garage, on-site treatment system and associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 181031
7 Aug 2018Refused
a single storey dwelling and a domestic garage and an entrance and a connection to public services and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18954
7 Apr 2017Conditional
Alterations made to existing dwelling granted planning under reference number 95/474 consisting of the following (1) conversion of existing attic space for use as a non-habitable space including provision of additional roof lights on the rear elevation and the associated increase in building height (2) the retention of the existing single storey garage attached to the side of the existing dwelling (3) modifications to the front porch roof together with alterations to the external elevations (4) the retention of the existing stables and agricultural shed constructed on –site.
Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17378
24 Mar 2017Conditional
the construction of a single storey rear extension to an existing detached bungalow, ancillary alterations to all elevations and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17318
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 Coonagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coonagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coonagh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Coonagh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coonagh.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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
- Coonagh, Carbury5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Coonagh · Cuanach
- Area
- 1,608,713 m² (160.87 ha, 397.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardkill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Carbury, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 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.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardkill, Ballyshannon, Collinstown, Demesne, Derrinturn, Parsonstown
- Placenames
- Coonagh 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.