Coolskeagh

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolskeagh, from 794 m² to 156,407 m² (15.64 ha, 38.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Coolskeagh 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.

• 29 Apr 2022Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the demolition of existing vehicle repair/valet garage and replacement with a storey and a half dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, use of existing long established entrance and access lane from public road currently serving the vehicle repair/valet garage to alternatively serve the proposed dwelling house, provision of passing layby on existing laneway, implementation of comprehensive landscaping works together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22194

• 6 Apr 2021Conditional

  Retention permission for development of site to consist of retention of single storey storage shed to serve existing vehicle repair workshop and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21161

• 16 Apr 2019Refused

  permission for retention of a mobile home and all ancillary site development works.

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19179

• 19 Jun 2017Conditional

  Permission for the upgrading of existing septic tank system with new waste water treatment system and percolation area to serve the existing dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17295

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Muckno Lake 000563

Recorded monuments

• MO025-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the SE end of a NW-SE ridge with a parallel ridge c. 170m to the NE. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 42.5m E-W; 34.5m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth c. 3; int. H c. 0.5-1m; ext. H c. 1.5m) with some bushes. There is no visible fosse and there is a large entrance (Wth 4m) at SE, which might be the original one. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 27 February 2018

Architectural heritage

• Coolskeagh Bridge, bridge, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch skewed limestone railway bridge, built c.1849, carrying road over Dundalk to Enniskillen line. Elliptical arch, with rusticated voussoirs, chamfered margined and brush-hammered string course, snecked cut-stone walls having chamfered cut-stone copings to parapet walls, rock-faced rusticated rusticated walls. Skewly-laid red brick vault to soffit. West side infilled, with south end of west parapet removed to facilitate new road parallel to former road.

• Bridge, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone railway bridge, built 1849, carrying embanked Dundalk to Enniskillen line over road. Round arch having rock-faced rusticated voussoirs, and chamfered margined and brush-hammered impost course. Snecked cu0- stone abutments with rock-faced rusticated stone quoins to abutments. Brick soffit to arch. Snecked cut-stone walls and splayed buttressing walls with curved cut-stone coping. railway line and embankment now gone and bridge stands proud over road.

• Bridge, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch stone former railway bridge, built 1849, carrying embanked Dundalk to Enniskillen railway line over road. Round arch having rock-faced rusticated voussoirs, chamfered margined and brush-hammered impost course. Snecked cut-stone abutments with rock-faced rusticated stone quoins to abutments. Brick soffit to arch. Snecked cut-stone walls and splayed buttressing walls with chamfered cut-stone coping. Embankment has been removed.

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 20 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolskeagh.

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 Coolskeagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Coolskeagh · Cúil na Sceitheach

Area

540,384 m² (54.04 ha, 133.53 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Broomfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Broomfield electoral division: 831 people in 264 households; 87% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annadrumman, Annalittin, Drumgoose, Gorteens

Placenames

Coolskeagh 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.