Cooperhill Demesne
Cooperhill Demesne is a townland in the civil parish of Killabban, barony of Slievemargy, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is Cnoc an Chúipéaraigh.
Parcel 265214
- Area
- 876,683 m² (87.67 ha, 216.63 acres)
- Buildings
- 17 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 3,329 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Cooperhill Demesne
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- LA032-050 Enclosure
Description
Partial cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 28m) with traces of a large outer enclosure (approx. diam. 80m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Simon Dowling Date of upload: 30 December 2019
Architectural heritage
- Cooperhill House, house, 1715–1720 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay three-storey early-Georgian house, dated 1717. Extended, c. 1775. Extended, c. 1860, comprising four-bay two-storey wing.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2357 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 163.3 ha
- 403 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 37,585 m² (3.76 ha, 9.29 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooperhill Demesne, from 170 m² to 876,683 m² (87.67 ha, 216.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cooperhill Demesne 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
18 Dec 2025Conditional
construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with new site entrance and boundary treatments
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560870
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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
Recorded monuments
- LA032-014 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map; a circular 'fort' (max. diam. c. 45m). Situated in undulating countryside. No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007
- LA032-043 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of circular enclosure (approx. diam. 41m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 19 September 2019
- LA032-044 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of oval-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 42m) cut across by modern house plot in SE quadrant visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Cropmark of enclosure (LA032-043----) 60m to NW. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 19 September 2019
- LA032-045 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of circular enclosure (approx. diam. 45m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 19 September 2019
- LA032-051 Enclosure - large enclosure
Description
Partial cropmark of oval-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 78m E-W) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Simon Dowling Date of upload: 30 December 2019
Architectural heritage
- Cooperhill House, house, 1715–1720 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay three-storey early-Georgian house, dated 1717. Extended, c. 1775. Extended, c. 1860, comprising four-bay two-storey wing.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Cooperhill Demesne, about 1 in 20 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2357 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cooperhill Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Cooperhill Demesne · Cnoc an Chúipéaraigh
- Area
- 1,632,618 m² (163.26 ha, 403.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killabban, and its townlands
- Barony
- Slievemargy
- Electoral division
- Ballickmoyler, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 848 people lived in 296 households in the Ballickmoyler electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballickmoyler, Ballinrahin, Cappalug, Cappanamrogue, Coolrain, Rathtillig, Rosstillegane
- Placenames
- Cooperhill Demesne 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.