Ballycoolan

75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycoolan, from 81 m² to 324,651 m² (32.47 ha, 80.22 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 Ballycoolan 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.

• 23 Nov 2021Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21796

• 11 Aug 2020Conditional

  construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area and new site entrance

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20413

• 17 Apr 2020Conditional

  demolish existing dwelling and construct new dwelling house including all associated works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20192

• 13 Jun 2019Conditional

  retain extension to dwelling house as constructed. Ref: planning 11/404, permission to retain domestic garage as constructed, permission to retain location of same garage, permission to retain location of entrance, previously granted under planning 98/101. Full planning permission to construct domestic shed/store, permission to retain ground work for same proposed shed and associated site work

  Permission, 3 homes · Laois County Council, 19336

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Ballyprior Grassland SAC 002256

Recorded monuments

• LA019-011002 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  An almost circular cairn (max. diam. c. 30.7m N-S; H 3m). Two depressions at NE may represent possible cists. No kerb visible. 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

• LA019-011005 Field boundary
  Description

  Field bank following the townland boundary. Unknown date. 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

• LA019-011007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A circular area (diam c. 45.3m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 4.7m, int. H c. 0.6m, ext. H c. 1.2m), and external fosse (Wth at base 1.8m) from S-NNW. Possible original entrance at NW. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballycoolan, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Ballycoolan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Ballycoolan · Baile Uí Choileáin

Area

3,000,913 m² (300.09 ha, 741.54 acres)

Civil parish

Timogue, and its townlands

Barony

Stradbally

Electoral division

Timogue, the unit of the census

Census 2022

366 people lived in 128 households in the Timogue electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinteskin, Ballyprior, Clondoolagh, Crannagh, Guileen, Guileen, Kyle, Orchard Lower, Timogue, Tullomoy

Placenames

Ballycoolan 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.