Coolbally

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolbally, from 234 m² to 506,765 m² (50.68 ha, 125.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Coolbally 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.

• 15 Jul 2025Conditional

  refurbish and construct a single storey extension to the side of, the existing single storey derelict dwelling, a garage, a septic tank and percolation area, a site entrance, and associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2560430

• 9 Dec 2022Conditional

  construct a single storey dwelling, a garage, a septic tank and percolation area, a site entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2260030

• 8 Dec 2022N/a

  erect a single storey dwelling, a garage, a septic tank and percolation area, a site entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2260025

• 8 Dec 2022Conditional

  retain our garage base as constructed and permission to build garage

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22741

• 15 Mar 2019Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19150

• 20 Oct 2017Conditional

  change house type and alterations to site layout to previously approved planning ref 10/522

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17565

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 Coolbally.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolbally.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolbally.

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

At the centre of the townland of Coolbally, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolbally.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Coolbally with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Coolbally · Cúlbhaile

Area

1,754,447 m² (175.44 ha, 433.53 acres)

Civil parish

Aghaboe, and its townlands

Barony

Clarmallagh

Electoral division

Grantstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

388 people lived in 137 households in the Grantstown electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boherard, Corraun, Cuffsborough, Garryduff, Kildellig, Palmershill, Tinnaragh, Tooreagh

Placenames

Coolbally 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.