Coolartragh
Coolartragh is a townland in the civil parish of Clontibret, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Cúil Artrach.
Parcel 319627
- Area
- 27,396 m² (2.74 ha, 6.77 acres)
- Buildings
- 5 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 339 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
- Coolartragh
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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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
- 134.6 ha
- 333 acres
- Land parcels
- 74
- registered freehold, median 10,146 m² (1.01 ha, 2.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolartragh, from 130 m² to 67,311 m² (6.73 ha, 16.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coolartragh 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
10 Sept 2026N/a
permission for the development of 1no. 2 story dwelling, adjacent garage, a well, a new access onto public road, property wastewater treatment system and associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660380
28 Jul 2026N/a
permission for change of house type to previously approved dwelling ref:23133 , - 1 No. 2 storey dwelling, adjacent garage, a well, a new access onto a public road, property waste water treatment system and associated ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660324
1 Jul 2026N/a
permission to construct 1 No. 2 storey dwelling, adjacent garage, a well, a new access onto a public road, property waste water treatment system and associated ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660272
30 Jun 2026N/a
permission to construct 1 No. 2 storey dwelling, adjacent garage, a well, a new access onto a public road, property waste water treatment system and associated ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660271
30 May 2023Conditional
permission to construct 1 No. 2 storey dwelling, adjacent garage, a well, a new access onto a public road, property waste water treatment system and associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 23133
15 Feb 2023Conditional
permission for development consisting of construction of a single storey dwelling house, proprietary wastewater treatment system, site entrance on to existing public road and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2350
3 Nov 2021Conditional
Permission to retain dormer dwelling house as built and exit on to public road by way of existing entrance. Previous planning ref 02/464
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21613
14 Sept 2021N/a
outline permission to construct 1 no. dwelling, garage with new access onto a public road, property waste water treatment system & associated ancillary site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21519
26 Jul 2021Conditional
permission to consist of the erection of a storey and a half domestic garage with first floor storage area and associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21432
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Coolartragh.
Recorded monuments
- MO014-020 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on the N-facing slope of a small hill that is on an E-facing slope in an undulating landscape. This is a D-shaped grass and scrub-covered area (dims 32m NE-SW; 29.4m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at NNW: Wth of base 4.2m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2.3m), with an outer flat-bottomed fosse (at NNW: Wth of base 2.4m; ext. D 1.7m) SW-N. The entrance (Wth of base 2.5m) is at N. The monument is truncated by a NE-SW field bank and outer drain at SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 26 February 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolartragh.
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 Coolartragh, 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 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 Coolartragh.
- 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 Coolartragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Coolartragh · Cúil Artrach
- Area
- 1,346,025 m² (134.6 ha, 332.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clontibret, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Annayalla, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 572 people lived in 204 households in the Annayalla electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Coolartragh 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.