Coolowley (Plott)

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolowley (Plott), from 1,159 m² to 661,353 m² (66.14 ha, 163.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Coolowley (Plott) 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 Oct 2019Conditional

  extend and renovate existing dwelling house to include 1. transform part of dwelling house to granny flat 2. construct extension to include part of existing dwelling to a 4-bedroomed house 3. new septic tank and percolation area, decommission existing tank 4. new site boundaries and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19551

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 Coolowley (Plott).

Recorded monuments

• LA027-012 Church
  Description

  Reference to Church here (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 140). Situated in poor marshy land with a lot of rock outcrop. Rectangular nave and chancel (L c. 14.7m; Wth c. 7.4m, wall T. c. 0.95m) built of roughly coursed rubble limestone. Featureless apart from a rectangular window in W gable. Described by Carrigan as 'There is an ancient church in 'the church field' in Coolowley. It stands east and west, was well built of good limestone, and measures internally, 38 ft. long by 21 ft. 3 in. wide, the walls being 3 ft. thick and the side walls 9 ft. high. A considerable portion of each gable still remains, together with some fragments of the south side-wall. There was no division into nave and chancel. The entrance door now destroyed was in one or other of the side-walls. There was a narrow loop, 20 in. high, in the west gable, 4 ft. from the ground; and directly over it, at a height of 2 ft. was another narrow loop now a mere breach. Of the narrow east window only one of the frame-stones, cut and chamfered, remains in situ. The site of the church is all rocky. There is no appearance of a graveyard' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 140). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA027-013 Burial ground
  Description

  Indicated on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly rectangular enclosure (max. dims. c. 80m N-S; 50m E-W). A raised area (H c. 1m) enclosed by a wide shallow drain on S and E sides mark the site. Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 140) suggests that this may be the burial ground associated with Coolowley Church (LA027-012). No grave-markers visible. Described by Carrigan as 'About 100 yards south of the church is an irregularly-shaped oval enclosure, 60 perches in area and raised 2 or 3 ft. over the surrounding land; it is defended by a fosse and external rampart. The enclosure shows no remains of buildings or foundations; it may have been the burial place belonging to the church' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 140). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA027-014 Moated site
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in gently undulating countryside. Traces of a bank at N, NE, SE, S and SW delimit an almost square area (dims. 28.4m NE-SW, 30m NW-SE). No evidence of fosse or original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolowley (Plott).

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 Coolowley (Plott), 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1854 (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 Coolowley (Plott) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Coolowley (Plott) · Cúil Amhlaidh (Plott)

Area

1,127,133 m² (112.71 ha, 278.52 acres)

Civil parish

Rathdowney, and its townlands

Barony

Clandonagh

Electoral division

Rathsaran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

604 people lived in 218 households in the Rathsaran electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barny and Bealady, Barrahill, Coolowley (Mason), Gortnalee, Grogan, Rossmore, Tullacommon

Placenames

Coolowley (Plott) 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.