Coolmore

75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolmore, from 2 m² to 163,774 m² (16.38 ha, 40.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Coolmore 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Coolmore in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

• KK031-041 Flat cemetery
  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.

• KK031-089 Flat cemetery
  Description

  In an elevated position on an E-facing slope in pasture. Excavated in 2006 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Road Scheme (Excavation licence no. E2514). A multi-period flat cemetery comprising a central upright vessel containing the cremated remains of an adult with 16 additional pits and some charcoal spreads all containing cremated bone. Sixty-two other pits contained charcoal-rich fills but not cremated bone. One had oxidation along the base. Cremated bone from one of the cremation deposits returned an Early Neolithic date (4049 – 3971 Cal BC, UBA 10485), while a later Neolithic date (3248 – 3099 Cal BC, UBA 10481) was returned from a similar pit. A series of Middle Bronze Age dates were also returned from cremated bone deposits from several other cremation pits, including that contained with the vessel (1458 – 1386 Cal BC, UBA 10486). (Monteith 2009, no. 1009, 257; Monteith 2010) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 1 October 2013

• KK031-096 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  On an elevated position on a gentle SE sloping pasture within naturally outcropping hillocks of limestone. Excavated in 2007 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3404). A subcircular feature (L 1.62m; Wth 1.2m; D 0.16m) with concave sides and a U-shaped base sealed by an oxidized layer of material may have functioned as a hearth. A total of 101 charcoal fragments were analysed from the fill. Although hearths filled with oak charcoal are known from the medieval period, results from prehistoric sites show that oak charcoal is almost invariably associated with funerary ritual, suggesting that the feature may be associated in some way with the flat cemetery (KK031-089----) c. 50m to the SE. An oval pit (L 0.9m; Wth 0.59m; D 0.24m) and an irregular pit (L 0.8m; Wth 0.6m; D 0.15m) were also recorded. (Monteith 2010a; Monteith 2010b, 237, no. 893; Monteith 2010c, 237, no. 894) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 13 November 2013

• KK031-097 Kiln
  Description

  On an elevated NE-facing slope in pasture. Excavated in 2010 in advance of the N9/N10 Waterford to Powerstown Road Improvement scheme (Licence no. 3015). A circular pit (L 1.78m; Wth 1.53m; D 0.31m) with a linear, flue-type cut (L 2.61m; Wth 0.62m; D 0.21m) extending from it at N. The pit had an oxidised base and may have functioned as a cereal-drying kiln although the absence of charred grain suggests a simple hearth or charcoal production pit. Radiocarbon dating of charred oak bark returned a date of 1216-1268 cal AD (UBA-14005). Three additional pits were recorded c. 5m to the S and may represent contemporary activity. (Monteith 2009, 270-71, no. 1051; Monteith 2010) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 21 October 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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_2197 (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.

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

Name

Coolmore · An Chúil Mhór

Area

1,211,048 m² (121.1 ha, 299.26 acres)

Civil parish

Knocktopher, 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

Ballyboodan, Ballybray, Ballygeardra, Carrickshock Commons, Kilcurl (Anglesey), Kilcurl (Feronsby), Kilkeasy, Kyleva

Placenames

Coolmore 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.