Coolnahinch

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolnahinch, from 359 m² to 367,095 m² (36.71 ha, 90.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Coolnahinch 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Coolnahinch in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Coolnahinch.

Recorded monuments

• LF014-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rolling pasture. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 28m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with a shallow external fosse. The original entrance may have been at NE. The rath has since been levelled and its location is marked by a low, irregularly shaped mound of earth and stone (max. H 0.3m). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 30 November 2011

• LF014-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in low-lying pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. An irregular scarp (H 0.2m - 1.1m) extends in an arc from WSW-W-N and defines a slightly raised area. The rest of the monument is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1734 (ZIP).

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

Name

Coolnahinch · Cúil na hInse

Area

498,311 m² (49.83 ha, 123.14 acres)

Civil parish

Templemichael, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Longford Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Longford Rural electoral division: 5,685 people in 1,964 households; 51% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnacassagh, Corrabaun, Kilnasavoge, Lisnamuck, Whiterock

Placenames

Coolnahinch 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.