# Coolamber, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Street, barony of Ardagh, Co. Longford; in Irish Cúil Amra.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,171,717 m² (117.17 ha, 289.54 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,822 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Street, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/street.md
- Barony: Ardagh
- Electoral division: Coolamber, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32849
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130336
- Centre: latitude 53.71335, longitude -7.47995 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolamber, from 564 m² to 635,501 m² (63.55 ha, 157.04 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 52947: 635,501 m² (63.55 ha, 157.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52947.md
- Parcel 52030: 169,995 m² (17 ha, 42.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52030.md
- Parcel 81001: 103,786 m² (10.38 ha, 25.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/81001.md
- Parcel 69439: 99,314 m² (9.93 ha, 24.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/69439.md
- Parcel 76761: 36,491 m² (3.65 ha, 9.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76761.md
- Parcel 70713: 24,556 m² (2.46 ha, 6.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/70713.md
- Parcel 78608: 21,520 m² (2.15 ha, 5.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78608.md
- Parcel 60433: 21,075 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/60433.md
- Parcel 65329: 20,511 m² (2.05 ha, 5.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/65329.md
- Parcel 62408: 13,661 m² (1.37 ha, 3.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/62408.md
- Parcel 73504: 5,217 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/73504.md
- Parcel 67056: 2,426 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/67056.md
- Parcel 4773866: 2,215 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4773866.md
- Parcel 77820: 2,072 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/77820.md
- Parcel 63607: 1,711 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/63607.md
- Parcel 52896: 1,382 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/52896.md
- Parcel 55914: 1,315 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/55914.md
- Parcel 77126: 1,304 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/77126.md
- Parcel 4773864: 1,296 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4773864.md
- Parcel 77587: 928 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/77587.md
- Parcel 76977: 879 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/76977.md
- Parcel 78355: 564 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/78355.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

3 applications, newest first.

- 8 Sept 2025, Longford County Council 2538: Unconditional. Extension of duration. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2538/0
- 15 Dec 2021, Longford County Council 21352: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/21352/0
- 18 Mar 2021, Longford County Council 2176: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2176/0

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## 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 Coolamber.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LF016-015001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF016-015001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF016-015002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF016-017----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF016-018001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF016-018002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF016-018003-. 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

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 Coolamber.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 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/longford/coolamber.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/coolamber.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/coolamber.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Coolamber with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford: https://everytownland.com/longford.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballew (Co. Westmeath): https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballew.md
- Balloo: https://everytownland.com/longford/balloo.md
- Coolamber (Co. Westmeath): https://everytownland.com/westmeath/coolamber.md
- Curry: https://everytownland.com/longford/curry-130409.md
- Freaghmeen: https://everytownland.com/longford/freaghmeen.md
- Kilmore (Co. Westmeath): https://everytownland.com/westmeath/kilmore.md
- Moneyhoolaghan: https://everytownland.com/longford/moneyhoolaghan.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.

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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/longford/coolamber
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