Coolfin

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolfin, from 492 m² to 882,080 m² (88.21 ha, 217.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Coolfin 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.

• 10 Sept 2026N/a

  construct a single story dwelling, site entrance, domestic garage, new onsite treatment system/septic tank and percolation area and all associated ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660632

• 8 Sept 2026N/a

  construct a single story dwelling, site entrance, domestic garage, new onsite treatment system/septic tank and percolation area and all associated ancillary works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660623

• 5 Sept 2026N/a

  construct of single story dwelling, site entrance, domestic garage, new onsite treatment system/septic tank and percolation area and all associated ancillary works at Coolfin Cross, Rathdowney, Co. Laois

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660618

• 3 Sept 2026N/a

  Construct single story dwelling, site entrance, domestic garage, new onsite treatment system/septic tank and percolation area and all associated ancillary works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660611

• 17 Dec 2025Conditional

  Construct a dwelling house, garage, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance and all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560866

• 1 Dec 2025Conditional

  construct a 2 storey dwelling house, garage, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance and all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560796

• 16 Jul 2021Conditional

  construct extension to slatted shed incorporating loose straw areas and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21514

• 26 Apr 2017Refused

  construct single storey dwelling house, entrance, septic tank with raised bed type percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17208

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 Coolfin.

Recorded monuments

• LA028-031001 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  In undulating countryside. A circular tree ring. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA028-031002 Well
  Description

  Marked on the 1839 and 1908 eds OS 6-inch maps. In undulating countryside. No known references to the site. A shallow pool of water. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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 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_1944 (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 Coolfin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Coolfin · An Chúil Fhionn

Area

1,096,400 m² (109.64 ha, 270.93 acres)

Civil parish

Bordwell, and its townlands

Barony

Clarmallagh

Electoral division

Donaghmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Donaghmore electoral division: 273 people in 99 households; 92% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Akip, Ballycoolid, Beckfield, Beckfield North, Beckfield South, Bordwell Big, Coolfin, Farranville, Kilbreedy, Rahandrick Upper

Placenames

Coolfin 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.