Coolnahau

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolnahau, from 27 m² to 175,925 m² (17.59 ha, 43.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Coolnahau 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.

• 5 Feb 2026Conditional

  for a cattle shed over slatted tank, concrete apron and associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660065

• 28 Feb 2023N/a

  development of a cubicle/slatted shed, concrete apron and associated site works necessary to facilitate the proposed development

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360071

• 3 Nov 2020Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20737

• 21 Mar 2017Conditional

  for development of a cattle shed, concrete apron and associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17168

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

• KK036-040 Structure
  Description

  This is a large, overhanging rock with space under walled around to make a rectangular room (max. dims 3.3m by 2m; H 1.7m). It is traditionally associated with 'St. Moling' (Carrigan 1905, iv, 192). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 6 September 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

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

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

Name

Coolnahau · Cúil na hÁithe

Area

2,108,576 m² (210.86 ha, 521.04 acres)

Civil parish

Jerpointwest, and its townlands

Barony

Knocktopher

Electoral division

Jerpoint West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Jerpoint West electoral division: 286 people in 84 households; 95% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygegan, Ballytarsna, Cappagh, Castlebanny, Garrandarragh, Mullennakill

Placenames

Coolnahau 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.