# Coolowley (Plott), Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathdowney, barony of Clandonagh, Co. Laois; in Irish Cúil Amhlaidh (Plott). - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,127,133 m² (112.71 ha, 278.52 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 15,615 m² (1.56 ha, 3.86 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathdowney, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/rathdowney.md - Barony: Clandonagh - Electoral division: Rathsaran, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28793 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100426 - Centre: latitude 52.875271, longitude -7.642731 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolowley (Plott), from 1,159 m² to 661,353 m² (66.14 ha, 163.42 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4378632: 661,353 m² (66.14 ha, 163.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4378632.md - Parcel 226166: 234,745 m² (23.47 ha, 58.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226166.md - Parcel 251119: 69,142 m² (6.91 ha, 17.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251119.md - Parcel 226340: 57,697 m² (5.77 ha, 14.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226340.md - Parcel 4989834: 41,138 m² (4.11 ha, 10.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4989834.md - Parcel 228831: 28,869 m² (2.89 ha, 7.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228831.md - Parcel 4980796: 15,615 m² (1.56 ha, 3.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4980796.md - Parcel 230114: 4,353 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230114.md - Parcel 237179: 3,605 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237179.md - Parcel 235373: 3,517 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235373.md - Parcel 4980792: 3,048 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4980792.md - Parcel 230691: 1,900 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/230691.md - Parcel 5599524: 1,159 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5599524.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Coolowley (Plott) 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) 1 application, newest first. - 3 Oct 2019, Laois County Council 19551: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19551/0 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 Coolowley (Plott). ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA027-012: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA027-012----. Reference to Church here (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 140). Situated in poor marshy land with a lot of rock outcrop. Rectangular nave and chancel (L c. 14.7m; Wth c. 7.4m, wall T. c. 0.95m) built of roughly coursed rubble limestone. Featureless apart from a rectangular window in W gable. Described by Carrigan as 'There is an ancient church in 'the church field' in Coolowley. It stands east and west, was well built of good limestone, and measures internally, 38 ft. long by 21 ft. 3 in. wide, the walls being 3 ft. thick and the side walls 9 ft. high. A considerable portion of each gable still remains, together with some fragments of the south side-wall. There was no division into nave and chancel. The entrance door now destroyed was in one or other of the side-walls. There was a narrow loop, 20 in. high, in the west gable, 4 ft. from the ground; and directly over it, at a height of 2 ft. was another narrow loop now a mere breach. Of the narrow east window only one of the frame-stones, cut and chamfered, remains in situ. The site of the church is all rocky. There is no appearance of a graveyard' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 140). 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 - LA027-013: Burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA027-013----. Indicated on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly rectangular enclosure (max. dims. c. 80m N-S; 50m E-W). A raised area (H c. 1m) enclosed by a wide shallow drain on S and E sides mark the site. Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 140) suggests that this may be the burial ground associated with Coolowley Church (LA027-012). No grave-markers visible. Described by Carrigan as 'About 100 yards south of the church is an irregularly-shaped oval enclosure, 60 perches in area and raised 2 or 3 ft. over the surrounding land; it is defended by a fosse and external rampart. The enclosure shows no remains of buildings or foundations; it may have been the burial place belonging to the church' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 140). 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 - LA027-014: Moated site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA027-014----. Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in gently undulating countryside. Traces of a bank at N, NE, SE, S and SW delimit an almost square area (dims. 28.4m NE-SW, 30m NW-SE). No evidence of fosse or original entrance. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolowley (Plott). ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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: Susceptibility 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_1854, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1854.zip (ZIP). - 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/coolowley-plott.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/coolowley-plott.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/coolowley-plott.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Coolowley (Plott) 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) - Barny and Bealady: https://everytownland.com/laois/barny-and-bealady.md - Barrahill: https://everytownland.com/laois/barrahill.md - Coolowley (Mason): https://everytownland.com/laois/coolowley-mason.md - Gortnalee: https://everytownland.com/laois/gortnalee.md - Grogan: https://everytownland.com/laois/grogan.md - Rossmore: https://everytownland.com/laois/rossmore-101004.md - Tullacommon: https://everytownland.com/laois/tullacommon.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/coolowley-plott - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/coolowley-plott