Cooljohn

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooljohn, from 142 m² to 658,563 m² (65.86 ha, 162.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 29 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 23 Dec 2025Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of storey and a half dwelling, wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, new entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 25285

• 11 Dec 2024Conditional

  the construction of 2 single storey extension one to either side of the existing single storey detached dwelling house, elevation and roof modifications to the existing house with the addition of a bay window to the front elevation. Demolition of the existing detached single storey garage, new vehicular entrance gateway in lieu of the existing, realignment of the existing access road, new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area to replace the existing septic tank, along with all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 24455

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 Cooljohn.

Recorded monuments

• ME031-029 Mound
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007 Small sub-rectangular mound (diam. 9m N-S, 9m E-W, H 1m) in centre of wood. Trees have since been cleared and spoil added to original mound making it oval (dims. 50m NW-SE, 40m NE-SW, H 2m)

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cooljohn, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2708 (ZIP).

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 Cooljohn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Cooljohn

Area

680,742 m² (68.07 ha, 168.22 acres)

Civil parish

Balsoon, and its townlands

Barony

Deece Lower

Electoral division

Kilcooly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

408 people lived in 131 households in the Kilcooly electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynavaddog, Balreask, Ennistown, Kilmessan

Placenames

Cooljohn 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.