# Coole, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumcullen, barony of Eglish, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Chúil. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,037,781 m² (103.78 ha, 256.44 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 137,240 m² (13.72 ha, 33.91 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumcullen, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/drumcullen.md - Barony: Eglish - Electoral division: Killyon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 276 people lived in 95 households in the Killyon electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41417 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180478 - Centre: latitude 53.112556, longitude -7.831171 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coole, from 2,758 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres) to 404,414 m² (40.44 ha, 99.93 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 293840: 404,414 m² (40.44 ha, 99.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293840.md - Parcel 5514045: 307,420 m² (30.74 ha, 75.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5514045.md - Parcel 271828: 169,874 m² (16.99 ha, 41.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271828.md - Parcel 2978214: 104,605 m² (10.46 ha, 25.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2978214.md - Parcel 293171: 49,813 m² (4.98 ha, 12.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293171.md - Parcel 274726: 2,758 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274726.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Coole in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Coole in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Coole. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF035-006: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF035-006----. Not visible at ground level. Potential enclosure identified as a cropmark from aerial photographs (GSI N 195/6; Air Corps 756/55). 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 - OF035-007: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF035-007----. Situated on top of a natural ridge running E-W in undulating countryside. Raised circular area (diam 50m E-W) enclosed by a gently sloping earthen bank (Wth 1m; ext. H 2.5m - 3.5m; int. H 0.5m) reduced in places to a scarp, poorly preserved outer bank totally destroyed in places with a wide flat bottomed intervening fosse (Wth 3.1m: ext. D 0.5m) with possible evidence of a causewayed entrance (Wth 5m) at E. 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 - OF035-008: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF035-008----. Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, N 195/6) shows cropmark of circular enclosure. 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 - OF035-038: Structure - peatland, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF035-038----. A single stake (L 0.51m; diam. 0.045m), in worked to a wedge shaped end. The stake was present within moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and some Phragmites. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 1998. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant its acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh Date of upload: 23 May 2011 - OF035-039: Structure - peatland, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF035-039----. Two pieces of brushwood (diam. 0.03-0.055m) in a drain face, near the water line with a third piece of brushwood in the opposing drain face (Wth 0.7m; D 0.1m). One of these pieces has been worked to an unusual flat end. The material is within poorly humified Eriophorum with occasional Sphagnum. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 1998. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant its acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh Date of upload: 23 May 2011 - OF035-063: Structure - peatland, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF035-063----. Two disturbed and broken pieces of brushwood (diam. 0.015-0.04m) with one displaced on the field surface and the other lying at the edge of the drain. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 1998. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant its acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh Date of upload: 23 May 2011 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 Coole. ## 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 Coole, 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. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1698, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1698.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/offaly/coole-180478.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coole-180478.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coole-180478.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Coole with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinree: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballinree-180080.md - Clonbeale More: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonbeale-more.md - Killaun: https://everytownland.com/offaly/killaun.md - Rathure South: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rathure-south.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. --- 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/offaly/coole-180478 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/coole-180478