# Coolbally, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghaboe, barony of Clarmallagh, Co. Laois; in Irish Cúlbhaile. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,754,447 m² (175.44 ha, 433.53 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,871 m² (0.79 ha, 1.94 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghaboe, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/aghaboe.md - Barony: Clarmallagh - Electoral division: Grantstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 388 people lived in 137 households in the Grantstown electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/27990 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100399 - Centre: latitude 52.900262, longitude -7.521112 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolbally, from 234 m² to 506,765 m² (50.68 ha, 125.22 acres); 28 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 265727: 506,765 m² (50.68 ha, 125.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265727.md - Parcel 244435: 315,906 m² (31.59 ha, 78.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/244435.md - Parcel 265262: 83,724 m² (8.37 ha, 20.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265262.md - Parcel 234459: 81,288 m² (8.13 ha, 20.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234459.md - Parcel 248563: 79,731 m² (7.97 ha, 19.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/248563.md - Parcel 239296: 79,074 m² (7.91 ha, 19.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/239296.md - Parcel 251049: 74,517 m² (7.45 ha, 18.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251049.md - Parcel 5668339: 68,220 m² (6.82 ha, 16.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5668339.md - Parcel 234041: 67,097 m² (6.71 ha, 16.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234041.md - Parcel 247558: 55,823 m² (5.58 ha, 13.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/247558.md - Parcel 4421754: 55,785 m² (5.58 ha, 13.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4421754.md - Parcel 4679859: 54,660 m² (5.47 ha, 13.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4679859.md - Parcel 246088: 52,631 m² (5.26 ha, 13.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246088.md - Parcel 257845: 43,547 m² (4.35 ha, 10.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257845.md - Parcel 268411: 38,875 m² (3.89 ha, 9.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268411.md - Parcel 227562: 23,817 m² (2.38 ha, 5.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227562.md - Parcel 262895: 8,069 m² (0.81 ha, 1.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262895.md - Parcel 2490187: 7,871 m² (0.79 ha, 1.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2490187.md - Parcel 241757: 7,741 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/241757.md - Parcel 4782705: 5,890 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4782705.md - Parcel 4679488: 4,848 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4679488.md - Parcel 242441: 4,429 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/242441.md - Parcel 4679819: 4,393 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4679819.md - Parcel 262229: 4,354 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262229.md - Parcel 6091086: 4,029 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6091086.md - Parcel 262521: 3,344 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262521.md - Parcel 2442843: 3,332 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2442843.md - Parcel 5620663: 3,236 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5620663.md - Parcel 2609095: 3,230 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2609095.md - Parcel 244598: 2,803 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/244598.md - Parcel 4688772: 2,666 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4688772.md - Parcel 2452064: 2,191 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2452064.md - Parcel 3995240: 1,490 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3995240.md - Parcel 4369358: 1,195 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4369358.md - Parcel 4402922: 234 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4402922.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Coolbally in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 15 Jul 2025, Laois County Council 2560430: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. refurbish and construct a single storey extension to the side of, the existing single storey derelict dwelling, a garage, a septic tank and percolation area, a site entrance, and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560430/0 - 9 Dec 2022, Laois County Council 2260030: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a single storey dwelling, a garage, a septic tank and percolation area, a site entrance and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2260030/0 - 8 Dec 2022, Laois County Council 2260025: N/a. Permission, 1 home. erect a single storey dwelling, a garage, a septic tank and percolation area, a site entrance and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2260025/0 - 8 Dec 2022, Laois County Council 22741: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. retain our garage base as constructed and permission to build garage. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/22741/0 - 15 Mar 2019, Laois County Council 19150: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct new dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19150/0 - 20 Oct 2017, Laois County Council 17565: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. change house type and alterations to site layout to previously approved planning ref 10/522. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/17565/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Coolbally. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolbally. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolbally. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Coolbally, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolbally. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/laois/coolbally.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/coolbally.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/coolbally.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Coolbally with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Boherard: https://everytownland.com/laois/boherard.md - Corraun: https://everytownland.com/laois/corraun.md - Cuffsborough: https://everytownland.com/laois/cuffsborough.md - Garryduff: https://everytownland.com/laois/garryduff-100593.md - Kildellig: https://everytownland.com/laois/kildellig.md - Palmershill: https://everytownland.com/laois/palmershill.md - Tinnaragh: https://everytownland.com/laois/tinnaragh.md - Tooreagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/tooreagh.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/laois/coolbally - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/coolbally