Coolagherty

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolagherty, from 279 m² to 338,951 m² (33.9 ha, 83.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Coolagherty 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.

• 21 Dec 2024Conditional

  an extension to an existing bungalow type dwelling house to include internal and external alterations to existing dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance, boundary walls, piers and fencing and all ancillary site works. Significant Further Information includes alteration of boundaries and the associated red line boundary of the site

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460326

• 21 Aug 2024N/a

  4 No. One Bedroom Self-contained Glamping / Holiday Accommodation Pods ancillary to Existing Farmhouse, new wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, access road from existing entrance, parking area, perimeter fencing and all ancillary site works all at Agharevagh House, Cloondara, Co. Longford

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460177

• 21 Aug 2024Conditional

  proposed partial demolition of existing single story derelict dwelling house, together with the demolition of the existing attached shed structure at the rear, the construction of a two storey extension to the same, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, installation of a suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460179

• 28 Apr 2022N/a

  dormer type dwelling, detached garage, formation of new entrance, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2298

• 28 Mar 2019Conditional

  the proposed construction of a two storey house type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1993

• 17 Sept 2018Conditional

  (A) single storey extension constructed to the rear of existing dwelling house (B) attic conversion together with dormer windows servicing existing dwelling house (C) two storey domestic garage (D) stable building and (E) agricultural storage building and all ancillary works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 18198

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 Coolagherty.

Recorded monuments

• LF010-100 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NW-SE drumlin ridge. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a raised subcircular area (c. 47m N-S; c. 41m E-W) enclosed by a wide low bank of earth and stone with a wide, shallow, external fosse. The original entrance was not recognisable. Apart from a short stretch of a scarp (H 1.8m) at SW, the rath has been levelled. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Spring Park, country house, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement country house, built or rebuilt c. 1760, and possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to gable ends (northeast and southwest) and having a moulded limestone eaves course. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with cut limestone quoins to the corners of the main façade (southeast) at ground and first floor level and with rendered string course over basement. Square-headed window openings with tooled cut limestone sills and replacement windows. Small window openings at basement level to front elevation (southeast) and minimal fenestration to rear elevation (northwest). Square-headed door opening with carved limestone pedimented block-and-start surround having moulded architrave, pulvinated frieze and Gibbsian keystone, and with replacement door. Doorway reached up flight of cut stone steps, flanked to either side by walls having cut stone coping over. Roughly coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to northeast of site having segmental-headed door opening with cut limestone voussoirs and timber battened door. Set well back from road in extensive mature grounds to the southwest of Granard. Complex of single-storey outbuildings arranged around a yard to the rear (northwest); comprising multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding/former stables to the northeast of yard having pitched slate roof, roughly coursed rubble limestone walls and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Cut stone sills to window opening. Altered single-storey outbuildings to the northeast of yard having rubble stone walls, corrugated-asbestos and corrugated-metal roofs and square-headed openings. Main entrance to house to the southeast comprising a pair of roughly coursed limestone piers (on square-plan) having dressed capstones. Gateway flanked to either side by sections of roughly coursed boundary walls.

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 high, moderately low, 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 Coolagherty.

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 Coolagherty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Coolagherty · Cúil Uí Fhathartaigh

Area

1,304,826 m² (130.48 ha, 322.43 acres)

Civil parish

Granard, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Milltown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Milltown electoral division: 367 people in 130 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaboy, Graffoge, Laughil (Edgeworth), Leitrim, Muckerstaff, Willsbrook

Placenames

Coolagherty 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.