Cooltrim

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooltrim, from 319 m² to 96,423 m² (9.64 ha, 23.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Cooltrim 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.

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  permission to construct a new two storey style dwelling house, detached domestic garage, establish new entrance onto public road, new sewerage wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560522

• 6 Aug 2025Conditional

  permission for a) construction of a two-storey dwelling, b) construction of a single storey garage, c) alterations to existing agricultural entrance and front boundary, d) provision of a proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area e) and all associated site works, Significant further information received relates to submitted, revised site layout plan & Landscaping plan, revised boundary line

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560305

• 19 Feb 2025Conditional

  permission for the development consist of an eight bay agricultural slatted cubicle shed with an underground slurry storage tank and all associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2512

• 23 May 2018Conditional

  Permission to demolish an existing 2 storey dwelling and attached single storey outbuilding and construct a replacement 2 storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system and all works associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18217

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 Cooltrim.

Recorded monuments

• MO024-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on top of a drumlin. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 54m E-W; 47.5m N-S) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank largely reduced to an external scarp (at SE: H 1.5m) and an outer fosse, outside of which is a field bank which might incorporate an outer bank of the rath NW-NE (at NE: Wth of base 5.5m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.35m). The entrance through the inner (Wth of base 2m) bank and a causeway (Wth of top 5.5m; int. H 0.9m; H 0.5m) are at ESE. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 9 May 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cooltrim, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cooltrim · Cluain Troim

Area

1,064,306 m² (106.43 ha, 263 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnamullen, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Creeve, the unit of the census

Census 2022

705 people lived in 230 households in the Creeve electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickaldragh, Corlea, Cortaghart, Drumgor, Garrybane, Lackan

Placenames

Cooltrim 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.