# Coolcaw, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ardagh, barony of Ardagh, Co. Longford; in Irish Cúil Cháithe. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,126,653 m² (112.67 ha, 278.4 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 40,882 m² (4.09 ha, 10.1 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ardagh, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/ardagh.md - Barony: Ardagh - Electoral division: Ardagh East, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ardagh East electoral division: 730 people in 265 households; 88% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33047 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130337 - Centre: latitude 53.670228, longitude -7.652457 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolcaw, from 935 m² to 218,723 m² (21.87 ha, 54.05 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 81923: 218,723 m² (21.87 ha, 54.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/81923.md - Parcel 52963: 146,100 m² (14.61 ha, 36.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52963.md - Parcel 78818: 81,488 m² (8.15 ha, 20.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78818.md - Parcel 65655: 74,277 m² (7.43 ha, 18.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/65655.md - Parcel 72597: 73,415 m² (7.34 ha, 18.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/72597.md - Parcel 68472: 71,630 m² (7.16 ha, 17.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/68472.md - Parcel 67374: 69,300 m² (6.93 ha, 17.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/67374.md - Parcel 67749: 66,573 m² (6.66 ha, 16.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/67749.md - Parcel 79007: 62,969 m² (6.3 ha, 15.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/79007.md - Parcel 52292: 59,233 m² (5.92 ha, 14.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52292.md - Parcel 70979: 52,778 m² (5.28 ha, 13.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/70979.md - Parcel 74510: 49,870 m² (4.99 ha, 12.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/74510.md - Parcel 83166: 31,895 m² (3.19 ha, 7.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/83166.md - Parcel 58621: 17,983 m² (1.8 ha, 4.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58621.md - Parcel 55653: 11,689 m² (1.17 ha, 2.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/55653.md - Parcel 51709: 8,618 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/51709.md - Parcel 5077704: 8,518 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5077704.md - Parcel 52294: 6,802 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52294.md - Parcel 68597: 6,571 m² (0.66 ha, 1.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/68597.md - Parcel 78366: 2,250 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78366.md - Parcel 68159: 1,880 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/68159.md - Parcel 79165: 1,755 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/79165.md - Parcel 2763265: 1,308 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2763265.md - Parcel 80490: 935 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/80490.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Coolcaw 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 21 Jan 2026, Longford County Council 266: Unconditional. Extension of duration. of PL21/294 - proposed demolition of an existing bungalow dwelling house with the construction of a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, installation of a wastewater treatment system and percolation area, boundary fence/wall and ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/266/0 - 11 Oct 2021, Longford County Council 21294: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. proposed demolition of an existing bungalow dwelling house with the construction of a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, installation of a wastewater treatment system and percolation area, boundary fence/wall and ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/21294/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Coolcaw. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LF019-053: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF019-053----. In level, poorly drained pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded that the monument had been largely levelled. However, the outline of the enclosing elements, a bank and external fosse, could be traced enclosing a roughly circular area (diam. c. 30m). Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 30 November 2011 - LF019-054: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF019-054----. On a low rise in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 29m) defined by a scarp (H 1.5m), which has been largely levelled at SW. At the base of the scarp from E-ESE-SE is a waterlogged fosse (Wth c. 2.5-3m; D 0.4m). From NNE-NE-E this has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. Elsewhere it has been infilled. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a low outer bank from S-SW-WSW; it is no longer identifiable. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011 - LF019-059: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF019-059----. On a WSW-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1913 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The monument has been levelled but is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (SMR file). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 January 2012 - LF019-060: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF019-060----. In low-lying, wet pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 33m) enclosed by a partially denuded, wide, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.1m; H 0.3m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 2.6m; D 0.2-0.5m). A break (Wth 1.5m) in the bank at WSW may mark the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011 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 Coolcaw. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolcaw. - 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/coolcaw.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/coolcaw.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/coolcaw.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Coolcaw 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) - Back of The Hill: https://everytownland.com/longford/back-of-the-hill.md - Ballinreaghan: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballinreaghan.md - Ballinroddy: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballinroddy.md - Ballywalter: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballywalter.md - Barney: https://everytownland.com/longford/barney.md - Barneygole: https://everytownland.com/longford/barneygole.md - Carnan: https://everytownland.com/longford/carnan.md - Crossea North: https://everytownland.com/longford/crossea-north.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. --- 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/coolcaw - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/coolcaw