Coolamber

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolamber, from 564 m² to 635,501 m² (63.55 ha, 157.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Coolamber 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.

• 8 Sept 2025Unconditional

  of PL 21/352 - proposed construction of a dormer bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable sewerage system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 2538

• 15 Dec 2021Conditional

  proposed construction of a dormer bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable sewerage system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21352

• 18 Mar 2021Conditional

  the construction of a 24 metre high free standing communications structure with its associated antennae, communication dishes, ground equipment and all associated site development works. The development will form part of Eircom Ltd existing telecommunications and broadband network

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2176

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 Coolamber.

Recorded monuments

• LF016-015001 Church
  Description

  On a low rise in undulating pasture, within the N half of a graveyard (LF016-015002-). This late-medieval rectangular church (int. dims. 8.75m E-W; 4.95m N-S; wall T 0.7m) is poorly preserved. The W gable and N wall survive to their original height but only sections of the E gable and the return of S wall survive. The only visible architectural feature is a possible splayed ope, covered in ivy, in the W gable. Wall monuments dating to the 19th century have been inserted in both faces of this wall. A fortified house (LF016-018----) and bawn (LF016-018002-) lie c. 475m to the SE. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 June 2013

• LF016-015002 Graveyard
  Description

  Associated with a medieval church (LF016-015001-), which is located in its N half. This circular graveyard (diam. 35m), which is densely overgrown with scrub, is enclosed by a 19th-century stone wall. It is no longer in use. Access is via a wrought-iron gate and stile. Memorials date from the 18th to the 20th centuries. A modern rectangular graveyard, enclosed by a concrete wall, adjoins it to the S (Lennon 2005). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 June 2013

• LF016-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth c. 5m; H 0.3-0.65m) at W and from NNW-N, and defined elsewhere by a scarp (H 0.75-1.5m) with a wide shallow intervening fosse (Wth 6-7m; D 0.6-1.05m) and from WSW-W-NNW an outer bank (Wth 4.5m; H 0.4-0.8m). The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 30 November 2011

• LF016-018001 House - fortified house
  Description

  Within the interior of a possible early medieval ringwork (LF016-018003-) that was subsequently reused as a bawn (LF016-018002-). Possibly the residence of Thomas Nugent, one of the commissioners for Plantation of Longford in 1620 (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 469). Described by Lewis (1837, vol. 2, 581) as ‘the ruins of an old castle, which was beseiged by Oliver Cromwell, it formed the boundary of the English Pale’. This fortified house (overall ext. dims. 23.3m N–S; 10.75m E–W) consisted of a two-storey block with an adjoining four-storey tower at its N end. Only fragmentary remains of the walls (max. H 2m) of the two-storey block (approx. int. dims. 16m N–S; 7.5m E–W; wall T 1.6m) survive. Springers in the external face of the S wall of the tower indicate that there was a barrel vault over its ground floor, probably covering the area over the entrance chamber. There would have been another room to the S of this. No trace of the original doorway survives but it may have been in the E wall where there is a large breach opposite the causewayed entrance into the bawn. No architectural features survive. A scar line noted on the external face of the S wall of the tower in 1975 (SMR file) indicates that the roof over this block was gabled. The N and E walls of the tower (ext. dims. 10.6m E–W; 5.6m N–S) survive to wall-walk level, while the W end of the S wall and the W wall have collapsed. The internal face of the N wall is partially covered in ivy at second- and third-floor levels. A base-batter is evident and alternating quoins stones are punch dressed. There is a barrel vault over the ground floor (int. dims. 8.5m E–W; 3.4m N–S; wall T 1m); joist-holes above this in the N and S walls indicate that all the other floors were wooden. A blocked-up doorway, located off-centre to the W in the S wall, gave access to the ground floor of the adjoining block of the house. Another blocked-up doorway near the S end of the W wall led to a mural stairs in the W wall, which accessed the spiral stairs in the NW angle. Apart from a curve in the wall face, indicating its location, no trace of the spiral stairs survives. It was lit by narrow, flat and ogee-headed windows. A chamber (int. dims. 7m E–W; 3m N–S; wall T 1m) on the first floor was lit by an ogee-headed slit ope in the NE angle, flanked by a gun loop to the W, and by a centrally located window in the E wall as well as one off–centre to the W in the N wall. A broken-out fireplace in the centre of the N wall is a fine cut-stone example, with chamfered, punch-dressed jambs and lamp brackets on either side of the destroyed joggle-jointed lintel. A destroyed doorway in the SE angle accessed the first floor of the adjoining block. Remains of broken-out centrally located windows are also visible on the ground, second and third floors of the E wall. Those on the second and third floors consist of flat-headed, single lights. Single lights in the centre of the N wall at second-floor level and off-centre to the E on the third floor are now partially ivy covered. Immediately to the E of the example on the second floor an external chimneystack was carried on two corbels that are visible on the external wall face. The punch-dressed quoins, fireplaces, ogee-headed angle loops, gun loop and flat-headed limestone windows suggest that this house dates to the late 16th/ early 17th-century. A church (LF016-015001-) and graveyard (LF016-015002-) lie c. 475m to the NW. (Moore 2007, No. 21) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 September 2012

• LF016-018002 Bawn
  Description

  Associated with a fortified house (LF016-018002-), which lies in the NW quadrant of the interior. This almost circular bawn (int. dims. 39m N–S; 38m E–W; wall T 0.95m; Wall H 0.3m) is built around the perimeter of the platform of a possible ringwork (LF016-018003-). Its outline is indicated by wall-footings and there is evidence of a possible rectangular mural or garderobe tower projecting out from the bawn wall at SW. It is unclear whether the platform, fortified house and bawn are of contemporary date or whether the platform is an earlier ringwork that was subsequently refortified. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 4 January 2012

• LF016-018003 Castle - ringwork
  Description

  On a low rise in wet pasture with good views in all directions; adjacent to the Longford/Westmeath county border. A raised circular platform (diam. c. 40m) defined by a scarp (H 2-4m) and an external fosse (top Wth 8m; base Wth 2m; ext. D 0.8-1.7m) with a causewayed entrance (Wth 3m; L 10m) at ESE. A NW-SE running road cuts the NE quadrant, destroying the fosse from N-NNE-NE. A late-16th/early 17th-century fortified house (LF016-018001-) is situated in the interior and its associated bawn (LF016-018002-) is evident on the perimeter of the platform. It is unclear whether the platform, house and bawn are of contemporary date or whether the platform is an earlier ringwork that was subsequently refortified. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 10 April 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Coolamber, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolamber.

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

Name

Coolamber · Cúil Amra

Area

1,171,717 m² (117.17 ha, 289.54 acres)

Civil parish

Street, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Coolamber, the unit of the census

Census 2022

397 people lived in 131 households in the Coolamber electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballew (Co. Westmeath), Balloo, Coolamber (Co. Westmeath), Curry, Freaghmeen, Kilmore (Co. Westmeath), Moneyhoolaghan

Placenames

Coolamber 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.