Coolhill

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolhill, from 51 m² to 245,457 m² (24.55 ha, 60.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Coolhill 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.

• 30 Apr 2025Conditional

  for the erection of a dwelling house, garage/store, installation of a treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560230

• 29 Sept 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460460

• 13 Dec 2023Conditional

  for the demolition of a haybarn and derelict dwelling house, construction of a dwelling house, site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2360576

• 27 Sept 2021Conditional

  is being sought for the construction of a new cow cubicle house with ancillary underground slurry storage tanks, a new silage pit and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21799

• 16 Aug 2019Conditional

  for the erection of solar panels on existing animal houses and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19584

• 30 Nov 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a new shed enclosing a new milking parlour and dairy along with all associated site works including underground slatted slurry storage tank

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18791

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• KK033-027001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  At the edge of a NE-facing slope, on top of a steep tree-covered precipice on the S side of the River Barrow with an extensive view to the NW-N-NE overlooking the river valley and beyond. The tower house was in the possession of the Mountgarret family in 1621 and was confiscated in 1653 (Carrigan 1905, vol. 4, 126). A four-storey circular late 15th/16th-century tower house (ext. diam. 10.8m) composed of granite rubble, roughly coursed, with a rectangular garderobe turret (ext. dims. 2m x 2.4m) projecting from the NW . The tower house is built on rock outcrop, some of which is visible internally at ground-floor level. At parapet level there are the remains of three machicolations, one above the main entrance in the E, the others in the SE and SW. The tower house was entered through a pointed doorway, only the uppermost S jamb and S side of the door-head of which survive. A yett-hole in the S jamb indicates that the doorway was originally protected by a yett. The entrance lobby is protected internally by a murder-hole. A pointed doorway opposite the main entrance leads into the ground-floor chamber which is vaulted, with very good survival of wicker-centring. The ground floor (int. diam. 5.1m) was lit by two single-light round-headed loops to the N and W, the former with a rectangular gun-loop in its W embrasure, and a cross-loop in the NE, all within large embrasures. There is a large recess in the SW similar to the embrasures but with no evidence of a loop. A pointed doorway on the S side of the entrance lobby gives access to a spiral stair which rises in the SE wall. The stair well is lit by a number of rectangular loops and also has gun-loops, including an equal-armed cross-loop opposite the doorway at first-floor level. The first floor (int. diam. 5.35m) is entered via a pointed doorway. It has three large embrasures, that to the N has a broken out single-light window with a wall-cupboard on the E side, that to the E has a rectangular gun-loop with head and lintel of which splay downward, with a wall cupboard on either side and the opening to the murder-hole is in the floor of the embrasure, while that to the W has a rectangular single-light window with a gun-loop to the S. Immediately N of the W embrasure there is a doorway giving access to the L-shaped passage of the garderobe, the passage has a window with a slop-stone beneath the sill and the garderobe itself is lit by two single-light windows, one on each side of the turret. Within the main chamber there are also three wall cupboards . The second floor, entered via a pointed doorway from the stair, was carried on a wooden floor. The windows are organised as at first-floor level, with wall cupboards in the N and E embrasures. There is also gun-loop in the SW wall. It has a similar arrangement of a passage in the W to a garderobe in the turret. In the main chamber there is a fireplace in the NW wall. The third floor, which also rested on a timber floor, has a similar arrangement to the rooms below. The windows are largely broken out, though according to Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 126) one of these was a round-headed three-light window. It was entered via a pointed doorway, which has an upper jamb on the N side which projects internally to form a small ledge (L 0.48m; D 0.14m; Wth at top 0.12; Wth at base 0.18m) which tapers in towards the wall to N. There is a fireplace in the NE wall, the surrounds of which are broken out. The broken out loop in the garderobe passage in the NW has a slop stone beneath the sill. In the SSW there is a mural stair giving access to the parapet, it narrows as it rises. The parapet only partially survives in the SE and the machicolation here is higher than the other two, the supporting corbels project from the parapet wall, in contrast to the others where the supporting corbels project from the wall of the tower below the parapet. (National Monument No. 646) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 23 August 2016

• KK033-027002 Designed landscape - folly
  Description

  Identified as a 'Tower' on the 1st (1839-40) ed. OS 6-inch map and 'Tower (in Ruins) on the 2nd (1903) ed. This is an 18th/19th-century folly (ext. dims. 4.1m x 4m; int. dims. 2.45m x 2.4m) which is incorporated into and contemporary with the stone walled field boundary which runs NNE-SSW from the NE and SW face of the tower. It was at least three storeys high, though it only survives to midway of the second-floor level. It had a doorway in the NE wall at ground level and has large pointed window openings. It is not related to the tower house (KK033-027001-) which lies 135m to the NE. Another tower (KK033-027003-), probably contemporary with this one, was located 76m E of the tower house but only some overgrown stones (max. H 0.5m) survive. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 23 August 2016

• KK033-027003 Designed landscape - folly
  Description

  Identified as a 'Tower' on the 1st (1839-40) ed. OS 6-inch map and 'Tower (in Ruins) on the 2nd (1903) ed. Situated 76m E of a tower house (KK033-027001-) and 210m ENE of another tower (KK033-027002-) and stood at a junction between two field boundaries. This tower does not survive, except for some overgrown stones at its location (max. H 0.5m). It is likely that this tower was similar to and contemporary with the tower to the WSW. This latter tower is an 18th/19th-century folly (ext. dims. 4.1m x 4m; int. dims. 2.45m x 2.4m) which was at least three storeys high and has large pointed window openings. It is not related to the tower house (KK033-027001-) which lies 135m NE of it. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 23 August 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 Coolhill, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Coolhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Coolhill · An Chúlchoill

Area

1,775,607 m² (177.56 ha, 438.76 acres)

Civil parish

The Rower, and its townlands

Barony

Ida

Electoral division

Coolhill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

280 people lived in 93 households in the Coolhill electoral division. 98% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clogaralt, Cullentragh, Mungan, Tinnascolly

Placenames

Coolhill 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.