Coolshannagh

194 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolshannagh, from 8 m² to 64,792 m² (6.48 ha, 16.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 151 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Existing Commercial (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Industry/Enterprise/Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Landscape Protection/Conservation (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation/Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Proposed Residential B (New/proposed residential)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 28 Aug 2026N/a

  retention of a 30.16 sq.m single-storey extension to the rear of the existing petrol forecourt building for use as customer sanitary facilities, together with associated internal alterations to the existing building to facilitate the reconfiguration and enlargement of existing sanitary facilities, and all associated site development and drainage works. This application relates to previously granted planning permission under Planning. Ref. 14/184 and 15/375

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2660357

• 28 Jul 2026N/a

  permission for the retention of the following: 1.meeting room within the main building, 2.ancillary outbuilding, 3.all ancillary & associated site works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2660322

• 30 Jan 2026N/a

  permission for a development which will consist of the erection of 5 no. self-contained accommodation glamping units, creating a car parking area to serve the proposed development with minor adjustments to existing site entrance, proposed connections to existing town sewer & watermains with all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660022

• 26 Nov 2025N/a

  permission for a development consisting of the erection of 5 no. self-contained accommodation glamping units, creating a car parking area to serve the proposed development with minor adjustments to existing site entrance, proposed connections to existing town sewer & watermains, with all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560472

• 7 Mar 2025Conditional

  planning permission for the demolition of a single storey element and chimney to the rear, elevational changes including new and amended windows, privacy screen to the front façade, new rooflight, new porch to the front elevation with overhang, two storey side extension, extended canopy to the rear, external stairs and single storey porch at lower ground level, amendments to the front boundary wall, enlarged vehicular entrance with gates and piers, new pedestrian gates and piers and all associated site works. Significant Further information relates to submitted proposed floor plans & Proposed site plan

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560090

• 25 Jul 2024Conditional

  permission to demolish an existing two storey dwelling and single storey garage and construct 24no. semi- detached dwellings to include 17 no. three-bedroom dwellings and 7 no. two bedroom dwellings. Works include forming a new vehicular entrance, connections to mains services including water, foul and storm, new boundary treatments and landscaping together with all associated works, Significant Further Information relates to, Submitted Water Protection Plan, Transport Assessment Report, Out Door lighting report, Ecology Report and revised plans

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460265

• 30 May 2024Conditional

  permission to an existing building comprising of i) demolition of existing single storey garage, ii) material alteration and extension of existing dwelling, iii) widening of existing access and all associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460196

• 3 Aug 2023Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of amendments to permission 21549 as follows:• Omission of all velux roof lights from all house types; • Omission of all canopies and canopy walls from front facades; • Omission of rear doors from house types DD & EE and installation of windows in lieu of rear doors for these units; •Amendment of wall finishes within the site from brick finish to smooth render finish. Associated site works to remain as granted under permission 21549

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2360161

• 20 Apr 2023Conditional

  permission to demolish a storey and a half out building, single & two storey areas to side and rear of existing two storey dwelling and erect a single storey extension to side & rear and a storey and a half extension to the rear, replace 2 no. front bay windows with flush windows, connection to public sewerage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2360054

• 19 Apr 2022Conditional

  permission for development of a pay-to-use portable waste compactor for the acceptance of residual and food waste and a pay-to-use portable compactor for mixed dry recyclables

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22177

• 30 Sept 2021Conditional

  permission for development consisting of (a) site works to facilitate the proposed development to include demolition of existing dwelling and outbuilding on-site and general site clearance works (b) creation of a new access point to the lands from Coolshannagh Road with provision of a new internal access road to facilitate vehicular and pedestrian access (c) provision of a residential development comprising 10 no. nits in total as follows (1) Housetype A - 1no 3 bed terraced dwelling (2) Housetype B- 7 no. 2 bed semi-detached and terraced dwelling (3)Housetype C - 1 no. 3 bed terraced dwelling (4) Housetype D - 1 no. 3 bed detached dwelling (d) provision of associated garden areas and in curtilage works for each dwelling to include parking, boundary fencing and boundary walls as required (e) provision of a residential communal open space area to include all had and soft ;landscape works within the site which includes public lighting, public seating, planting works and boundary treatments (f) Associated site works and attenuation systems as well as all ancillary site development/construction works to facilitate site drainage and foul networks for connection to the existing foul, storm and public water networks along with connection works to the ESB network. Significant information and revised plans submitted have been furnished.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21549

• 28 Apr 2021Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of alterations to existing two storey dwelling comprising (1) demolition of two storey rear projection, (2) removal of external raised walkway to the side & rear of dwelling, (3) alterations to existing floor plans, (4) alterations to fenestration & external finishes, (5) all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21222

• 18 Dec 2020Conditional

  permission to construct a new single storey extension onto side/rear of existing two storey dwelling house plus internal alterations, elevational changes, connection into existing utility provisions & associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20565

• 18 Nov 2020Conditional

  Permission to 1. demolition of existing two-storey dwelling, associated outbuildings & agricultural buildings; 2. erection of a replacement two and a half storey dwelling, single-storey carport & detached domestic garage; 3. erection of a single-storey replacement outbuilding for use ancillary to existing agricultural lands; 4. use of existing entrance for agricultural purposes; 5. new vehicular entrance & public sewer connection as approved under planning reference 18/255; 6. together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20495

• 8 Jul 2020Conditional

  permission to change use of existing disco/function room to conference centre. These works include the removal of the existing internal first floor in disco/function room consisting of smoking area, bar and toilets and rear escape stairs with ancillary internal and external renovation & refurbishment works, elevational amendments and construction of new rear outdoor smoking area to Conference Centre and all other associated internal & external site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20264

• 19 Sept 2019Conditional

  permission for development consisting of (a) site works to facilitate the proposed development to include demolition of existing dwelling and outbuilding on-site and general site clearance works. (b) creation of a new access point to the lands from Coolshannagh Road with provision of a new internal access road to facilitate vehicular and pedestrian access. (c) provision of a residential development comprising 8 no. units in total as follows: house type A - 1 no. 3 bed semi-detached dwelling, house type B - 3 no. 2 bed semi-detached dwellings, house type C - 1 no. 3 bed detached dwelling, house type D - 2 no. 3 bed semi-detached dwellings, house type E - 1 no. 4 bed detached dwelling. (d) provision of associated garden areas and in-curtilage works for each dwelling to include parking, boundary fencing and boundary walls as required. (e) provision of a residential communal open space area to include all hard and soft landscape works within the site which includes public lighting, public seating, planting works and boundary treatments. (f) associated site works and attenuation systems as well as all ancillary site development/construction works to facilitate site drainage and foul networks for connection to the existing foul, storm and public water networks along with connection works to the ESB network.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19442

• 3 Sept 2019Conditional

  Permission to retain the development as granted previously under planning file number 0630079 to include (i) retention of relocated two storey dwelling (ii) elevational changes and (iii) all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19411

• 16 Nov 2018Conditional

  permission to renovate existing two storey dwelling house and construct proposed new single storey extension and carport, construct single storey detached store, new pedestrian access onto public road, connection to existing public sewer and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18536

• 17 Oct 2018N/a

  outline permission to construct proposed new commercial offices park to include 2 No. detached multi storey office units with ancillary car parking facilities, construct proposed new access road and pedestrian footpath from N54 with all ancillary remedial works to N54 to facilitate proposed new site entrance, connection to existing public storm & foul water sewers and all other ancillary site works

  Outline permission · Monaghan County Council, 18476

• 8 Jun 2018Conditional

  Permission for the removal of existing outbuildings, sheds and 2 storey extensions to the rear (42m2); construction of 2 storey extension (115m2); internal and external modifications to the existing dwelling including new openings and the enlargement of existing openings; general refurbishment and thermal upgrading of the existing dwelling including repairs as required; replacement of rooflights; new replacement entrance and roadway and closure and making good of existing entrance; existing septic tank to be disconnected, new connection to existing public sewer; associated works, conservation, landscaping and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18255

• 21 Mar 2018Refused

  Permission to erect a new 10.0m high aluminum clad illuminated gantry sign to the North Eastern boundary of the site along the site frontage

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18118

• 21 Mar 2018Conditional

  Permission to construct 2 no. ESB Substations to service the existing site; a mono-pitched extension to the rear of the existing Dry Goods Store; and the provision of additional staff car parking facilities to the West of the existing yoghurt plant together with all associated site works.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18119

• 1 Feb 2018Conditional

  permission for the construction of a temporary bridge east (downstream) of the existing Blackwater Bridge on the N2 national route and temporary diversion of the N2 onto this structure. Demolition of the existing Blackwater Bridge and construction of a replacement permanent road bridge in the same location on the N2 over the River Blackwater. Raising of existing carriageway levels by up to 1m on the N2 for a distance of approx. 330m centred on the existing bridge. Re-engineer the existing access to LacPatrick Creamery and St. Macartans College bus facility to accommodate the raised carriageway levels on the N2 and all other associated site works. Removal of the temporary bridge and reinstatement of the N2 on completion of the works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 188001

• 4 Jan 2018Conditional

  Permission to retain as constructed split level dwelling house incorporating habitable basement accommodation/storage space, rear two storey flat roofed extension, footpath accessing rear of dwelling suspended on concrete pillars & associated metal railings including elevational changes/internal alterations plus associated site works. Significant further information relates to the retention of an increase in the extent of the site curtilage and the as-constructed location of dwelling than was previously granted under planning file P71/30044.

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 186

• 26 Jul 2017Conditional

  The provision of a new hard standing carpark area to the south-east of existing yoghurt plant, to provide additional parking facilities for staff members, vehicular access barriers, together with kerbing, lining and associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17360

The 25 most recent of 28 applications.

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 Coolshannagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolshannagh.

Architectural heritage

• New Cemetery, church/chapel, 1870–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding four-bay mortuary chapel, built 1913. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and concrete skewed gables with moulded brick cornice to eaves holding half-round cast-iron rainwater goods. English garden wall-bonded red brick walls with moulded yellow brick projecting base and yellow brick block-and-start quoins. Pointed-arch window and door openings. Windows have timber lattice glazing and slope-topped stone sills with galvanised steel security grills to exterior. Double-leaf timber battened door to each gable with ornate iron strap hinges, and concrete steps. East-facing sloped graveyard, earliest memorial being apparently 1874, but others mainly twentieth-century limestone or polished granite memorials with stone kerbs around grave plots. Some more decorative late nineteenth-century stone monuments also and one cast-iron memorial with cast-iron railed plot. Coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to east, road, side with barrel-topped stone capping and square ashlar piers with pyramidal caps to recessed central cast-iron vehicular and attached pedestrian gate. Gateway provides access to hard-surfaced path with late twentieth-century stone retaining walls. Stone-terraced lawn area in front of chapel. Other boundaries are earth and stone ditches with rough hedges and trees.

• Coolshannagh House, house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, facing south, having single-storey entrance porch with canted first floor window over, gabled two-bay two-storey and single-bay two-storey lean-to extensions at rear, with further single and two-storey outbuildings forming enclosed rear yard. Hipped slate roof with black clay ridge tiles, slightly sprocketed eaves, late twentieth-century rooflights on rear and side elevations, two red brick chimneystacks either side of central bay on ridge having over-sailing brick courses and dark vitrified brick stripe, and stepped brick cornice with brick corbels holding ogee-profile cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls with rusticated smooth render block-and-start quoins and flat smooth render frames around window openings. Smooth render to ground floor main entrance porch which has moulded render entablature surmounted by ornate wrought-iron brattishing and square-headed windows to side walls. Square-headed window openings throughout with painted stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash frames with mixture of chamfered and ogee horns. Window over porch has half-pyramidal slate roof with rolled lead ridges and similar sash windows separated by plain timber mullions. Tudor-arch entrance doorway with panelled timber door, overlight and sidelights with painted stone sills. Walls to rear yard are smooth rendered externally and mostly roughcast rendered internally, and yard entered through ornate double-leaf wrought-iron gate set to rendered square-plan piers. House situated in lawned garden surrounded by mature trees with winding hard surfaced avenue leading from widened entrance in roughcast rendered garden wall with original width ornate double-leaf wrought-iron gate on ornate cast-iron posts. Modern farm buildings to rear of site.

• The Beeches, house, 1875–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, dated 1877, having projecting lean-to porch, box-bay to west elevation, single-bay two-storey pitched roofed extension to rear of west elevation and two-bay two-storey catslide extension to east side of north elevation. Further single-storey lean-to extensions and brick wall enclose small rear yard. Half-hipped roof with slate to rear elevations and fibre-cement slates to front, lead ridges, smooth cement rendered chimneystacks with concrete caps, catslide roofed lucarne to front façade and overhanging eaves with exposed carved timber rafter and purlin ends and chamfered, pierced decorative timber bargeboards. Flemish-bonded red brick walls, with chamfered sandstone square-headed band incorporating window heads to first floor windows at west end of front, latter having pointed polychrome brick relieving arches over and with tumbled brick to panels beneath arches. Similar relieving arches to ground floor of east end bay of front. Other window openings have yellow brick lintels. Brick buttress to west elevation. Carved limestone plaque set into pointed arch niche with polychrome voussoirs, having date '1877' set within carved quatrefoil detail. Roughcast rendered rear walls. Square-headed window frames with stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sashes with ogee horns. Box-bay window has apparently recent one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, tall sprocketed slate roof with decorative diamond patterned slate cladding, over brick plinth wall. Pointed segmental-arch entrance doorway having polychrome brick voussoirs with ashlar stone springings, partly glazed chamfered timber panelled double-leaf door with overlights and sidelights, all within moulded timber frame. House situated in lawned garden surrounded by mature trees with winding hard surfaced avenue leading from entrance gateway in snecked squared rubble stone garden wall with wrought-iron double-leaf gate set to square-plan dressed limestone piers having pyramidal stone caps.

• New Cemetery, Grave monument, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron memorial, dated 1874, comprising upright panel with trefoil-headed top, supported at each end by decorative cast-iron brackets. Brackets are curvilinear with scroll devices. Vegetal details and rope mouldings to memorial. Panel has high-relief cast lettering to top, with more within garland to middle of panel, and with two further inscriptions on added panels that are bolted onto memorial. Stands within rectangular enclosure having decorative cast-iron spearhead railings with pineapple finials to corners on cut limestone plinth walls.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2332 (ZIP).

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 Coolshannagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Coolshannagh · Cúil Seannach

Area

527,044 m² (52.7 ha, 130.24 acres)

Civil parish

Monaghan, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Monaghan Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Monaghan Rural electoral division: 6,411 people in 2,320 households; 62% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derrynagrew, Kilnacloy, Kilnadreen, Mullaghmore East, Mullamurphy, Roosky, Tullyhirm

Placenames

Coolshannagh 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.