# Coolnagrower, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Birr, barony of Ballybritt, Co. Offaly; in Irish Cúil na gCreabhar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,401,741 m² (140.17 ha, 346.38 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,434 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Birr, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/birr.md - Barony: Ballybritt - Electoral division: Birr Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Birr Rural electoral division: 1,300 people in 478 households; 75% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41183 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180484 - Centre: latitude 53.07602, longitude -7.86352 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolnagrower, from 71 m² to 236,433 m² (23.64 ha, 58.42 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 278255: 236,433 m² (23.64 ha, 58.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278255.md - Parcel 297379: 165,204 m² (16.52 ha, 40.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297379.md - Parcel 278256: 124,353 m² (12.44 ha, 30.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278256.md - Parcel 297382: 121,777 m² (12.18 ha, 30.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297382.md - Parcel 278254: 107,698 m² (10.77 ha, 26.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278254.md - Parcel 278253: 103,290 m² (10.33 ha, 25.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278253.md - Parcel 305360: 98,492 m² (9.85 ha, 24.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305360.md - Parcel 278252: 95,791 m² (9.58 ha, 23.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278252.md - Parcel 297380: 85,228 m² (8.52 ha, 21.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297380.md - Parcel 6160121: 75,678 m² (7.57 ha, 18.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6160121.md - Parcel 6160123: 58,571 m² (5.86 ha, 14.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6160123.md - Parcel 5409197: 38,632 m² (3.86 ha, 9.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5409197.md - Parcel 3898069: 23,138 m² (2.31 ha, 5.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3898069.md - Parcel 308822: 20,835 m² (2.08 ha, 5.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308822.md - Parcel 308896: 8,513 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308896.md - Parcel 3834520: 8,355 m² (0.84 ha, 2.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3834520.md - Parcel 2478203: 7,359 m² (0.74 ha, 1.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2478203.md - Parcel 284531: 5,907 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284531.md - Parcel 303658: 5,427 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303658.md - Parcel 3767737: 3,214 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3767737.md - Parcel 293847: 2,877 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293847.md - Parcel 314557: 2,752 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314557.md - Parcel 277719: 2,401 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277719.md - Parcel 304265: 2,041 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304265.md - Parcel 313248: 2,013 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313248.md - Parcel 279822: 1,616 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/279822.md - Parcel 4897958: 1,422 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4897958.md - Parcel 290699: 426 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/290699.md - Parcel 281923: 107 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/281923.md - Parcel 297381: 71 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/297381.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Coolnagrower 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 28 Apr 2026, Offaly County Council 2660225: N/a. Permission. the construction of a new 188 m² commercial building for use as a glazing workshop and associated storage; all associated site works including site entrance. Retention Permission for the change of use of lands from agricultural to commercial use, the retention of 2 no. 40 ft storage containers and 1 no. 20 ft storage container used in connection with an established glazing business. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660225/0 - 23 Jan 2026, Offaly County Council 2660032: N/a. Permission. the Construction of a new commercial building, installation of a rainwater harvesting system, provision of car parking facilities, formation of a new site entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660032/0 - 12 Jan 2026, Offaly County Council 2660008: N/a. Permission. the Construction of a new commercial building, installation of a rainwater harvesting system, provision of car parking facilities, formation of a new site entrance, including connection to existing on-site services and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660008/0 - 26 Jan 2018, Offaly County Council 1829: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURAL STORE TO SOUTH SIDE OF EXISTING BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURE STORE TO WEST SIDE OF EXISTING COLDSTORE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/1829/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Coolnagrower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF035-028: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF035-028----. Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, N 244/3) shows cropmark of a possible 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 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) - Farm house, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 14935008, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14935008. Four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, built c.1800, with direct-entry plan. Pitched oaten straw roof with exposed scolloping to ridge. Low rendered chimneystacks. Pebbledashed stone walls. Replacement timber windows to front and timber sash to rear. Timber panelled door. Farm building with pitched corrugated asbestos roof and pebbledashed walls attached to north-east end of house. House set at an angle to road with garden in between having rendered piers with timber picket gate. Farmyard to side with outbuildings having pitched corrugated-iron roofs and concrete, stone and timber walls. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1673, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1673.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/coolnagrower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coolnagrower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coolnagrower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Coolnagrower 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-180079.md - Boherboy: https://everytownland.com/offaly/boherboy.md - Castletown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/castletown-180326.md - Cree: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cree.md - Derrinduff: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derrinduff.md - Fortel: https://everytownland.com/offaly/fortel.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/coolnagrower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/coolnagrower