Cooltoran

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooltoran, from 18 m² to 320,015 m² (32 ha, 79.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Cooltoran 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.

• 3 Sept 2025Conditional

  construct cubicle shed with concrete aprons at feeding areas, retention permission also for under slat slurry tank

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2578

• 7 Dec 2023Conditional

  erect a new dwelling house, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2360519

• 6 Dec 2023N/a

  erect a new dwelling house, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360515

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: Ridge of Portlaoise 000876

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cooltoran.

Architectural heritage

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

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.

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.

No address of the register names Cooltoran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Cooltoran · Cúil Tuairín

Area

779,517 m² (77.95 ha, 192.62 acres)

Civil parish

Borris, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough East

Electoral division

Borris, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Borris electoral division: 1,797 people in 601 households; 58% of households own their home; 77% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballytegan, Borris Great, Knocknagroagh, Kyleclonhobert, Kyletalesha

Placenames

Cooltoran 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.