Coolmeen

96 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolmeen, from 46 m² to 492,128 m² (49.21 ha, 121.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Coolmeen 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.

• 24 Sept 2025Conditional

  for indefinite retention of minor alterations and raised reroofing of a 32.22m2 first floor area of my existing dwelling

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2560616

• 24 May 2024Conditional

  for a loose/slatted shed, manure pit, concrete aprons and associated site works necessary to facilitate the proposed development

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460237

• 6 Mar 2023Refused

  for a dwelling house, sewerage system and percolation area, including siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2360084

• 9 Aug 2022Conditional

  for a domestic garage with solar panels and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22517

• 2 Dec 2020Conditional

  for slatted tank, extension to existing shed and alterations to existing sheds, including all necessary site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 20833

• 2 Apr 2020Conditional

  to retain storage building as constructed including associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 20207

• 24 May 2019Conditional

  for development of a cattle shed over slatted tank with straw lie back, concrete apron and associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19352

• 20 May 2019Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, sewerage treatment system and percolation area, including all necessary site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19337

• 29 Apr 2019Conditional

  to construct a roofed shed and separate slatted tank, including all necessary site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19288

• 16 May 2017Conditional

  to construct a slatted tank and farm shed, including all necessary site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17324

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 Coolmeen.

Recorded monuments

• KK031-042 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2213 (ZIP).

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.

• Coolmeen, Ballyhale6 sales

Name

Coolmeen · An Chúil Mhín

Area

2,515,293 m² (251.53 ha, 621.54 acres)

Civil parish

Derrynahinch, and its townlands

Barony

Knocktopher

Electoral division

Ballyhale, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyhale electoral division: 428 people in 165 households; 74% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybray, Ballyhale, Castlebanny, Castlegannon, Kilkeasy, Knockwilliam

Placenames

Coolmeen 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.