Coolowley (Mason)

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolowley (Mason), from 4 m² to 134,541 m² (13.45 ha, 33.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Coolowley (Mason) 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.

• 12 Nov 2025Conditional

  construct a single storey extension and porch to the front (north eastern) elevation, Retention of an existing single storey extension to the side (north western) elevation including all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2560738

• 3 Oct 2019Conditional

  extend and renovate existing dwelling house to include 1. transform part of dwelling house to granny flat 2. construct extension to include part of existing dwelling to a 4-bedroomed house 3. new septic tank and percolation area, decommission existing tank 4. new site boundaries and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19551

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 Coolowley (Mason).

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolowley (Mason).

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolowley (Mason).

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 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 Coolowley (Mason).

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 Coolowley (Mason) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Coolowley (Mason) · Cúil Amhlaidh (Mason)

Area

1,275,772 m² (127.58 ha, 315.25 acres)

Civil parish

Rathdowney, and its townlands

Barony

Clandonagh

Electoral division

Rathsaran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathsaran electoral division: 604 people in 218 households; 84% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brockry, Castlefleming (Stubber), Coolowley (Plott), Grogan, Rathnaleugh, Rossmore, Tullacommon

Placenames

Coolowley (Mason) 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.