Coolroe

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolroe, from 10 m² to 429,979 m² (43 ha, 106.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Coolroe 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.

• 14 Mar 2025Conditional

  construct a slatted animal house and all associated ancillary facilities, works and services

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560123

• 6 Feb 2025Conditional

  construct slatted tank agricultural building with lie-back area and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560060

• 2 Feb 2023Conditional

  construct boundary wall and sliding gate to enclose farm yard

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2337

• 2 Feb 2023Conditional

  construct boundary wall and sliding gate, to enclose farm yard

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2338

• 20 Oct 2021Conditional

  construct a single storey domestic storage building, to rear of existing dormer dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21722

• 6 Jan 2021Conditional

  retain two dwarf walls and two piers on the front boundary line and erect wrought iron railings on dwarf walls and concrete wall and pier caps

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 213

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Derries Wood 000416

Recorded monuments

• LA009-061 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  A low single storey cottage with two storey extension at N end is locally believed to have been built on the site of a castle (SMR File 2003-). According to local tradition this house was built 'inside its [bawn?] walls' (SMR File 2003). There are no surface remains of any bawn wall or any traces of an upstanding castle in the area marked on the OS six-inch map. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload / revision : 16 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Coolroe, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 Coolroe.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Coolroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Coolroe · An Chúil Rua

Area

1,915,452 m² (191.55 ha, 473.32 acres)

Civil parish

Lea, and its townlands

Barony

Portnahinch

Electoral division

Sallyford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

604 people lived in 199 households in the Sallyford electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellegrove, Courtwood, Raheennahown North, Rathronshin, Rosnamullane, Rossmore

Placenames

Coolroe 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.