Coole

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coole, from 2,758 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres) to 404,414 m² (40.44 ha, 99.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Coole 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 the townland of Coole.

Recorded monuments

• OF035-006 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Potential enclosure identified as a cropmark from aerial photographs (GSI N 195/6; Air Corps 756/55). 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

• OF035-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a natural ridge running E-W in undulating countryside. Raised circular area (diam 50m E-W) enclosed by a gently sloping earthen bank (Wth 1m; ext. H 2.5m - 3.5m; int. H 0.5m) reduced in places to a scarp, poorly preserved outer bank totally destroyed in places with a wide flat bottomed intervening fosse (Wth 3.1m: ext. D 0.5m) with possible evidence of a causewayed entrance (Wth 5m) at E. 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

• OF035-008 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, N 195/6) shows cropmark of circular enclosure. 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

• OF035-038 Structure - peatland
  Description

  A single stake (L 0.51m; diam. 0.045m), in worked to a wedge shaped end. The stake was present within moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and some Phragmites. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 1998. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant its acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF035-039 Structure - peatland
  Description

  Two pieces of brushwood (diam. 0.03-0.055m) in a drain face, near the water line with a third piece of brushwood in the opposing drain face (Wth 0.7m; D 0.1m). One of these pieces has been worked to an unusual flat end. The material is within poorly humified Eriophorum with occasional Sphagnum. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 1998. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant its acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF035-063 Structure - peatland
  Description

  Two disturbed and broken pieces of brushwood (diam. 0.015-0.04m) with one displaced on the field surface and the other lying at the edge of the drain. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 1998. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant its acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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

At the centre of the townland of Coole, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1698 (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.

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

1,037,781 m² (103.78 ha, 256.44 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcullen, and its townlands

Barony

Eglish

Electoral division

Killyon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

276 people lived in 95 households in the Killyon electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinree, Clonbeale More, Killaun, Rathure South

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.