Coole

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coole, from 1,356 m² to 157,627 m² (15.76 ha, 38.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Coole 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.

• 3 Sept 2026N/a

  Construction of an extension to the rear, front and north of existing dwelling. The extension will consist of an enlarged kitchen and dining space at ground floor and extra bedroom space at first floor level. The application will also include the demolishing of an existing rear extension, alterations to existing elevations and all associated site works and drainage

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660468

• 24 Jul 2026N/a

  Construction of an extension to the rear and north of their existing dwelling. The extension will consist of an enlarged kitchen and dining space at ground floor and extra bedroom space at first floor level. The application will also include the demolishing of an existing rear extension all associated site works and drainage

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660397

• 31 Jan 2025Conditional

  Dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560025

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 Coole.

Recorded monuments

• OF015-017 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on flat well drained land with river Brosna to the S. Well-preserved rectangular four storey tower house (ext. dims. 8.7m N-S; 10.4m E-W; wall T 2m) built with roughly coursed limestone rubble with slight base batter evident. Access is through a flat headed doorway in E wall with murder hole above, guard room in the NE angle and spiral stairs in the SE angle. Lobby area has a series of small rooms orientated N-S directly above murder hole which are accessed from the corresponding main chamber at each level except the room at attic level which is accessed from the spiral stairs and from the small room the barrel vaulted attic is accessed. The main ground floor chamber is accessed from the lobby area and is lit by three ogee headed windows set in widely splayed embrasures with wicker centring. Off the spiral stairs at first floor level there is a mural passage running E-W along the S wall leading to a garderobe in the SW angle which has a triple leaf ventilator. Mural passage in the W end of the N wall at first floor level gives access to a garderobe in the NW angle. Access to the murder-hole over the lobby area from the NE angle which has a twin light transomed angle loop and triple ogee headed ventilator. There is a large flat headed fireplace at the W end of the N wall at second floor level with datestone of 1575 directly above mantelpiece. Also at this level there is a mural passage in the S wall at W end leading to a possible garderobe in the SW angle. Barrel vaulted attic over the second floor which is accessed from the barrel vaulted chamber over the lobby area. Above the vaulted attic at wall walk level there is a destroyed third floor with destroyed fireplace with rectangular chimney stack at the NE angle, also visible at this level is the other chimney stack of the second floor fireplace. All of the doorways area of the two centred type with punch dressed jambs and drafted margins with one doorway possessing chamfer stops at the base of its jambs. The windows are mainly of the ogee headed type with decorated spandrels and punch dressing forming decorative patterns similar to the mint in Carlingford, Co. Louth. Flat and round headed windows light the stairs and the mural passages with two of these windows possessing slop stones under their sills. Two musket loops are visible one being circular in shape the other cruciform. Blocked up external opening of garderobe chute at S end of W wall. 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 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 49/1937).

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Coole with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Coole · An Chúil

Area

2,168,285 m² (216.83 ha, 535.79 acres)

Civil parish

Wheery or Killagally, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Ferbane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ferbane electoral division: 1,281 people in 484 households; 83% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derries, Falsk, Kincora, Vicarstown, Wheery

Placenames

Coole 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.