Coleraine
Townland in the civil parish of Durrow, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Cúil Raithin
- Area
- 128.8 ha
- 318 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 2,336 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coleraine, from 109 m² to 283,204 m² (28.32 ha, 69.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coleraine 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Jul 2026Conditional
the continued use of the existing wheel wash (with closed-loop water management system) permitted under planning permission ref. PL2/21/161, within an application area of c. 228 square meters
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660346
4 Jul 2024Conditional
(A) ALTERATIONS AND EXTENTION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE TO INCLUDE INCORPORATION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND CONVERSION OF SAME TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION (B) INSTALLATION OF NEW SEPTIC TANK/ETS AND PERCOLATION AREA (C) ALTERATIONS TO DRIVEWAY LAYOUT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2485
19 Jun 2024N/a
(A) ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO INCLUDE INCORPORATION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION (B) INSTALLATION OF NEW SEPTIC TANK/ETS AND PERCOLATION AREA (C) ALTERATIONS TO DRIVEWAY LAYOUT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2474
6 Oct 2021Conditional
REAR KITCHEN EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AS CONSTRUCTED
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21620
31 May 2021Conditional
A DOMESTIC SINGLE STOREY GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Offaly County Council, 21333
6 May 2021N/a
A DOMESTIC SINGLE STOREY GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Offaly County Council, 21283
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Coleraine.
Recorded monuments
- OF008-046 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Depicted on OS 1840 ed. as an irregularly shaped enclosure. Davies (ITA 1942) described the former site as an oval-shaped area (dims. c. 31m x c. 21m) enclosed by a bank (H 0.3m.) with an external fosse (max. Wth 0.91m) which by that time had been almost completely levelled. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coleraine.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coleraine.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Coleraine with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Coleraine · Cúil Raithin
- Area
- 1,288,006 m² (128.8 ha, 318.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Durrow, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballycowan
- Electoral division
- Silverbrook, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Silverbrook electoral division: 822 people in 266 households; 87% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyduff, Ballykilmurry, Kildangan, Loughaun
- Placenames
- Coleraine 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.