Coolfore

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolfore, from 393 m² to 153,661 m² (15.37 ha, 37.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Coolfore 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.

• 4 Jul 2025Conditional

  planning permission for conversion of attached shed to living accommodation and single storey extension to dwelling

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560261

• 16 Feb 2022Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of a storey and a half dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, entrance walls and piers together with all ancillary site development works. Significant further information received in relation to revised site layout plan, revised front and rear elevations and revised site characterisation form.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2268

• 23 May 2018Conditional

  Permission to construct a two storey dwelling house with single storey element, detached garage, new site entrance to the public road with entrance piers and gates, proposed driveway, wastewater treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site works. Significant Further Information has been submitted relating to revisions to the development and comprising of (i) amendment to the development boundary and site area (ii) amendments to the elevations

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18219

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 Coolfore.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolfore.

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately high, 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_2609 (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 Coolfore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Coolfore · Cúil Fobhair

Area

701,430 m² (70.14 ha, 173.33 acres)

Civil parish

Magheross, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Carrickmacross Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrickmacross Rural electoral division: 4,291 people in 1,518 households; 63% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumbroagh, Drumgowna, Greaghdrumneesk, Lisnaguiveragh, Peast

Placenames

Coolfore 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.