Coole
Townland in the civil parish of Charlestown, barony of Ardee, Co. Louth; in Irish An Chúil
- Area
- 194.6 ha
- 481 acres
- Land parcels
- 70
- registered freehold, median 2,366 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coole, from 9 m² to 443,052 m² (44.31 ha, 109.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Jul 2026N/a
Permission for a single storey domestic garage and store and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660440
7 Jul 2021Conditional
Permission for development that will consist of a dwellinghouse, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21836
1 Jul 2021Conditional
Permission for dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, access to site via existing laneway and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21814
6 Feb 2019Conditional
Permission sought for dwelling house, detached domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 1967
14 Dec 2018N/a
Permission sought for dwelling house, detached domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 181030
5 Jul 2018N/a
Retention permission for 1) domestic garage, 2) dog kennels, 3) additional site entrance and 4) all ancillary site development works. *Significant Further Information Received on 28/02/2019, Applicant has revised description to include retention of dogs kennels to be now used as domestic sheds*
Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18522
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Coole.
Recorded monuments
- LH014-038 Souterrain
Description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Local tradition of a 'cave' in a field known as 'Cave Park'. (IFC Schools MSS 668, 94-5).
- LH014-039 Souterrain
Description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Local tradition of a 'cave' in a mound. (DEHLG file)
- LH014-040001 Burial ground
Description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Low, slightly raised rectangular mound (max. dims. 15m E-W, 14m N-S) with many loose stones strewn about. Near NW edge of mound is an elongated boulder with a simple inscribed cross (LH014-040002-). Local tradition of a graveyard and of unbaptised being buried here.
- LH014-040002 Cross-inscribed stone
Description
Elongated boulder with a simple inscribed cross, on site of possible cemetery (LH014-040001-). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 30 May 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coole.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, 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_2821 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Coole with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Coole · An Chúil
- Area
- 1,946,168 m² (194.62 ha, 480.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Charlestown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardee
- Electoral division
- Ardee Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardee Rural electoral division: 3,009 people in 1,003 households; 94% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Artnalevery, Corstown (Co. Meath), Glack, Mullanstown, Townparks
- Placenames
- Coole 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.