Coolatogher
Townland in the civil parish of Powerstown, barony of Gowran, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish Cúl an Tóchair
- Area
- 110.7 ha
- 274 acres
- Land parcels
- 57
- registered freehold, median 3,310 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolatogher, from 15 m² to 192,056 m² (19.21 ha, 47.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Coolatogher 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
2 Sept 2020Conditional
to construct a new two storey extension to the front, rear and side of the existing dwelling, all elevational and internal modifications, decommissioning of existing septic tank and new effluent treatment plant and percolation area, demolition of existing porch to front of existing dwelling, existing single storey utility room to side of existing dwelling and single storey garage and all associated site development works.
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20586
2 Aug 2019Refused
to construct a dormer dwelling, with treatment system/ percolation area, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19542
18 Dec 2017Conditional
for the erection of a two storey dwelling house with private well, onsite waste water treatment system, domestic garage and all associate site and landscaping works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17842
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 Coolatogher.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolatogher.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolatogher.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolatogher.
- 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 Coolatogher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Coolatogher · Cúl an Tóchair
- Area
- 1,107,467 m² (110.75 ha, 273.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Powerstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gowran
- Electoral division
- Powerstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Powerstown electoral division: 524 people in 180 households; 89% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaleck Upper, Bramblestown, Glencoum, Moanteenmore
- Placenames
- Coolatogher 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.