# Cooljohn, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Balsoon, barony of Deece Lower, Co. Meath.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 680,742 m² (68.07 ha, 168.22 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,805 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Balsoon, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/balsoon.md
- Barony: Deece Lower
- Electoral division: Kilcooly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39060
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 160476
- Centre: latitude 53.571748, longitude -6.684239 (WGS 84)

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

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooljohn, from 142 m² to 658,563 m² (65.86 ha, 162.73 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 191110: 658,563 m² (65.86 ha, 162.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/191110.md
- Parcel 198226: 6,184 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/198226.md
- Parcel 206498: 4,307 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/206498.md
- Parcel 171030: 4,034 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/171030.md
- Parcel 147045: 3,386 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/147045.md
- Parcel 206111: 2,225 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/206111.md
- Parcel 215837: 1,372 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/215837.md
- Parcel 139326: 734 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/139326.md
- Parcel 2968422: 326 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2968422.md
- Parcel 140414: 142 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/140414.md

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

- P5 RA - 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: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/consolidated-meath-county-development-plan-2021-2027-incl-variations-1-2

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

2 applications, newest first.

- 23 Dec 2025, Meath County Council 25285: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/25285/0
- 11 Dec 2024, Meath County Council 24455: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/24455/0

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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 Cooljohn.

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

- ME031-029: Mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME031-029----. 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)

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 Cooljohn.

## 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 Cooljohn, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2708, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2708.zip (ZIP).
- 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/meath/cooljohn.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/cooljohn.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/cooljohn.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

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

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

- Ballynavaddog: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballynavaddog.md
- Balreask: https://everytownland.com/meath/balreask-160172.md
- Ennistown: https://everytownland.com/meath/ennistown-160671.md
- Kilmessan: https://everytownland.com/meath/kilmessan.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/meath/cooljohn
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/cooljohn