Coolbaun

118 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolbaun, from 9 m² to 475,300 m² (47.53 ha, 117.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 52 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Coolbaun 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.

• 17 Jun 2026N/a

  The development consists of open agricultural storage yards surface dressed with site won shale aggregate and associated drainage

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2660375

• 13 Jun 2025N/a

  for development of open agricultural storage yards. The development consists of open agricultural storage yards surface dressed with site won shale aggregate

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2560346

• 29 Apr 2025N/a

  The development consists of open agricultural storage yards surface dressed with site won shale aggregate

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2560227

• 16 Feb 2024Conditional

  for the erection of new horse stables with tack room and feed storage area, effluent tank, stormwater tank, concrete yards and all ancillary works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2419

• 1 Feb 2024N/a

  for the erection of new horse stables with tack room and feed storage area, effluent tank, storm water tank, concrete yards and all ancillary works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2413

• 5 Apr 2023Refused

  for (A) Single Storey domestic bungalow and (B) a single car domestic garage to include WWTS to EPA CoP EN12566-3 PIA approved with percolation area and connection to mains water scheme. C/W all other site works as requited

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2384

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  for construction of single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, foul effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 211057

• 8 Jul 2020Conditional

  to retain: (a) A single storey and two storey extension to the rear of the existing single storey dwelling. (b) A single storey porch to the front of the dwelling. (c) A detached storage shed. Also Planning permission for: (d) Decommissioning of the existing septic tank system and the construction of an effluent system with raised bed/polishing filter treatment system. (e) Demolition of portion of above named unauthorised detached storage shed, and all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 20435

• 1 Oct 2019Conditional

  for the construction of single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, foul effluent treatment system, percolation area, entrance, all associated site at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19707

• 31 Jul 2019Refused

  for (a) A single storey and two storey extension to the rear of existing single storey dwelling, (b) A single storey porch to the front of the dwelling, (c) A detached storage shed. Also permission for (d) Decommissioning of the existing septic tank system and the construction of an effluent system with raised bed/ polishing filter treatment system (e) Demolition of portion of above named unauthorised storage shed, and all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 19537

• 26 Nov 2018Refused

  (a) A single storey and two storey extension to the rear of the existing single storey dwelling. (b) A single storey porch to the front of the dwelling. (c) A detached storage shed. Also Planning Permission for: (d) Decommissioning of the existing septic tank system and the construction of an effluent system with raised bed / polishing filter treatment system. (e) Demolition of portion of above named unauthorized detached storage shed, and all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 18775

• 15 Oct 2018Conditional

  for construction of a new agricultural entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18683

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 Coolbaun.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolbaun.

Architectural heritage

• Monument, 1920–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding limestone ashlar monument, dated 1921, comprising inscribed pedestal on a stepped base with chamfered necking supporting obelisk having cross finial. Road fronted with sections of iron railings on painted rendered plinth, iron gate, painted rendered panelled piers having stepped capping, and painted rendered boundary wall to enclosure.

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

At the centre of the townland of Coolbaun, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Coolbaun · An Cúl Bán

Area

2,748,170 m² (274.82 ha, 679.09 acres)

Civil parish

Castlecomer, and its townlands

Barony

Fassadinin

Electoral division

Moneenroe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,311 people lived in 479 households in the Moneenroe electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghamucky, Ardra, Croghtenclogh, Gorteen, Moneenroe

Placenames

Coolbaun 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.