Coole

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coole, from 389 m² to 165,309 m² (16.53 ha, 40.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.

• 19 Sept 2026N/a

  domestic garage with granny Flat, log store & Burner and all associated site works

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 2660289

• 4 Mar 2026Conditional

  new private dwelling with detached garage, private well, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, entrance & all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2660062

• 26 Feb 2026N/a

  new private dwelling with detached garage, private well, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660056

• 11 Feb 2026N/a

  new private dwelling with detached garage, private well, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, entrance & all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660033

• 7 Jan 2026N/a

  new private dwelling with detached garage, private well, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, entrance & all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660003

• 2 Dec 2025N/a

  new private dwelling with detached garage, private well, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, entrance & all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560395

• 25 Nov 2025N/a

  new private dwelling with detached garage, private well, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, entrance & all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560386

• 24 Apr 2025Conditional

  new private dwelling with detached garage, site entrance, private well, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2560106

• 13 Jun 2023Conditional

  Retention Permission for the following, the development relates to the double garage only, and consists of increasing the ground floor area beyond the scope of the previously granted permission (reference: PL04581), and raising the pitch on the roof to accommodate additional storage accommodation at the first-floor level, remodel elevations by adding extra windows and roof windows and along with ancillary services

  Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2360106

• 7 Jun 2023N/a

  Retention Permission for the following, the development consists of increasing the ground floor area beyond the scope of the previously granted permission (reference: PL04581), Raising the pitch on the roof to accommodate additional storage accommodation at the first-floor level, remodel elevations by adding extra windows and roof windows and along with ancillary services

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 2360103

• 9 Dec 2021Conditional

  for new private dwelling with detached garage, private well, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 21490

• 17 Feb 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct a split level single storey dwelling with attached garage, new entrance, bored well, septic tank and percolation area with all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2145

• 22 Dec 2020N/a

  Permission to construct a split level single storey dwelling with attached garage, new entrance, bored well, septic tank and percolation area with all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 20476

• 8 Sept 2020Conditional

  for 2 No. 126 square metre extensions to the existing silage pits and associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 20310

• 14 Dec 2017Conditional

  Planning permission is sought for new agricultural barn and associated site works.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 17351

• 23 Nov 2017N/a

  New agriculture barn & associated site works.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 17331

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

• CW004-017 Earthwork
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Shown on 1908 'OS 6-inch' map as circular enclosure defined by bank depicted by hachures (max. diam. c. 35m). No visible surface traces.

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 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coole.

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. Carlow.

Name

Coole · An Chúil

Area

1,159,558 m² (115.96 ha, 286.53 acres)

Civil parish

Rathvilly, and its townlands

Barony

Rathvilly

Electoral division

Rathvilly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

931 people lived in 338 households in the Rathvilly electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Knockevagh, Knockroe, Moanavoth, Williamstown

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.