Coolfin

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolfin, from 1,082 m² to 149,418 m² (14.94 ha, 36.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Coolfin 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.

• 27 Mar 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23129

• 12 Mar 2020N/a

  CONVERSION OF THE ATTIC SPACE TO LIVING SPACE, VELUX WINDOWS TO FRONT AND BACK OF ROOF, AND ANCILLARY WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2078

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 Coolfin.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolfin.

Architectural heritage

• Coolfin House, hunting/fishing lodge, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached double-pile gable-fronted two-storey over basement sporting lodge, built c.1870, with ballustrated bows and extension to rear and two-storey canted bay to south. Now a private dwelling. Set within its own grounds. Pitched tiled roof with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Timber bargeboards to gables and pedimented dormer windows to south. Roughcast render to walls with red brick to entrance and red brick string course. uPVC replacement windows. Stucco corbels supporting sills to front façade. Two-storey box bays flanking entrance with some stained glass lights. Doorway set within porch comprising square-headed opening with timber and glazed door with sidelights and overlights, flanked by timber pilasters with console brackets supporting cornice. Limestone steps to basement portico supported by Doric columns. Ruined walled garden to north. Random coursed sweeping walls to entrance with ashlar piers and cast-iron gates.

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 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 Coolfin.

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 Coolfin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Coolfin · An Chúil Fhionn

Area

1,363,515 m² (136.35 ha, 336.93 acres)

Civil parish

Reynagh, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Banagher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Banagher electoral division: 2,215 people in 802 households; 65% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balliver, Coolderry, Cummeen, Curraghlahan, Dernafanny, Mullaghakaraun, Streamstown, Timolin

Placenames

Coolfin 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.