Coolnahely
Townland in the civil parish of Durrow, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Cúil na hEidhle
- Area
- 248 ha
- 613 acres
- Land parcels
- 111
- registered freehold, median 2,407 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
111 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolnahely, from 89 m² to 251,544 m² (25.15 ha, 62.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Coolnahely 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
14 Nov 2025Conditional
(A) 1 NO. NEW BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING, (B) 1 NO. NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE (C) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (D) VEHICULAR ENTRANCE (E) NEW LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 25115
1 Jun 2024Conditional
Construct a four bedroom dwelling with garage. The application will also include a new domestic entrance, effluent treatment system with percolation area and all associated site-works, boundary treatments and drainage.
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460201
9 Apr 2024N/a
Construction of a four bedroom dwelling with garage. The application will also include a new domestic entrance, effluent treatment system with percolation area and all associated site-works, boundary treatments and drainage.
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460117
6 Sept 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE; A DETACHED GARAGE; NEW TERTIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND INFILTRATION/TREATMENT AREA; A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE; AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21545
23 Jun 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE WITH GATEWAY PILLARS, BOUNDARY TREATMENT, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21385
3 Dec 2018Conditional
A NEW HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW ROAD ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18539
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Clara Bog SAC 000572
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clara Bog 000572
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolnahely.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolnahely.
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 moderately low, 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 Coolnahely.
- 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 Coolnahely with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Coolnahely · Cúil na hEidhle
- Area
- 2,479,751 m² (247.98 ha, 612.76 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
- Aghnananagh, Aharney, Ashfield, Doory, Erry (Maryborough), Loughaun, Tara
- Placenames
- Coolnahely 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.