Coolnagrower

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolnagrower, from 71 m² to 236,433 m² (23.64 ha, 58.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Coolnagrower 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.

• 28 Apr 2026N/a

  the construction of a new 188 m² commercial building for use as a glazing workshop and associated storage; all associated site works including site entrance. Retention Permission for the change of use of lands from agricultural to commercial use, the retention of 2 no. 40 ft storage containers and 1 no. 20 ft storage container used in connection with an established glazing business

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660225

• 23 Jan 2026N/a

  the Construction of a new commercial building, installation of a rainwater harvesting system, provision of car parking facilities, formation of a new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660032

• 12 Jan 2026N/a

  the Construction of a new commercial building, installation of a rainwater harvesting system, provision of car parking facilities, formation of a new site entrance, including connection to existing on-site services and all associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660008

• 26 Jan 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURAL STORE TO SOUTH SIDE OF EXISTING BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURE STORE TO WEST SIDE OF EXISTING COLDSTORE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 1829

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 Coolnagrower.

Recorded monuments

• OF035-028 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, N 244/3) shows cropmark of a possible 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

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, built c.1800, with direct-entry plan. Pitched oaten straw roof with exposed scolloping to ridge. Low rendered chimneystacks. Pebbledashed stone walls. Replacement timber windows to front and timber sash to rear. Timber panelled door. Farm building with pitched corrugated asbestos roof and pebbledashed walls attached to north-east end of house. House set at an angle to road with garden in between having rendered piers with timber picket gate. Farmyard to side with outbuildings having pitched corrugated-iron roofs and concrete, stone and timber 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

At the centre of the townland of Coolnagrower, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1673 (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 Coolnagrower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Coolnagrower · Cúil na gCreabhar

Area

1,401,741 m² (140.17 ha, 346.38 acres)

Civil parish

Birr, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Birr Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,300 people lived in 478 households in the Birr Rural electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinree, Boherboy, Castletown, Cree, Derrinduff, Fortel

Placenames

Coolnagrower 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.