Coolgrange

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolgrange, from 11 m² to 169,176 m² (16.92 ha, 41.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Coolgrange 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.

• 24 Nov 2025Conditional

  for renovation, extensions and alterations to existing dwelling and out buildings to provide habitable accommodation, new effluent treatment system and associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560752

• 14 Apr 2023Refused

  for (1) a change of use of the existing two storey farmhouse, staff quarters, stable block, and 2 no. agricultural outbuildings to guest/short term let accommodation to form 4 separate units (2) refurbishment of the existing two storey farmhouse house and staff quarters comprising of alterations and a single storey extension to link both buildings and form a part two storey and part single storey 4 bedroom unit (3) refurbishment of the single storey stable block comprising of alterations and a single storey extension to form a single storey 3 bedroom unit (4) refurbishment of the existing part two storey part single storey agricultural outbuilding comprising of alterations including increasing the height of the roof and insertion of rooflights to form a two storey 4 bedroom unit (5) refurbishment of the existing single storey adjoining agricultural outbuilding comprising of alterations, roof replacement and a single storey extension to form a single storey 3 bedroom unit (6) alterations and modifications to elevations/facades of all buildings (7) repair and re-roofing of the existing barn structure to form a barbecue station, outdoor dining area and games area (8) private and communal amenity and recreational open space (9) provision of car and bicycle parking spaces (10) a new wastewater treatment system and raised bed soil polishing filter (11) new borewell (12) new boundary treatments and landscaping (13) resurfacing of the existing access lane and creation of a new passing bay and (14) all associated site works.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360145

• 12 Apr 2022Conditional

  to modify existing entrance to existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22243

• 2 Apr 2019Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling, single storey stables, use of existing entrance and laneway, substantial landscaping, new waste water treatment system and percolation area, new bored well and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19205

• 7 Aug 2018Refused

  to construct a two storey dwelling, single storey stables and connecting shed to rear courtyard area, use of existing entrance and laneway, substantial landscaping, new waste water treatment system, new bored well and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18529

• 13 Feb 2018Refused

  to construct a two storey dwelling, single storey stables and connecting shed to rear courtyard area, use of existing entrance & laneway, substantial landscaping, new waste water treatment system, new bored well and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 1892

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 Coolgrange.

Recorded monuments

• KK020-018001 Cairn - burial cairn
  Description

  At the highest point of Freestone Hill, immediately NW of centre of the enclosing hillfort (KK020-018002-). A circular cairn (diam. c. 23m) bounded by a kerb of medium sized vertical set stones and concentric to this, at a distance of 3m, an inner kerb formed by somewhat smaller stones (Bersu 1951, 5-10). It was excavated by Bersu in 1951 and the excavation published by Raftery in 1969 (Raftery 1969, 1-108). There were at least 16 burials within the cairn, some of which were in the 2 pits or 4 cists (Waddell 1990, 101). In all the remains of at least 18 individuals were found, including three inhumations and the remainder cremations (ibid.). The burials were concentrated in the E half of the mound and one lay 1.5m E of the cairn (ibid.). Associated finds included two small bone pins, several vases and a perforated bone plaque provided an Early Bronze Age date for the cairn (ibid.; Raftery 1994, 41). During the Iron Age the cairn was truncated by a circular wall (diam. 18m) and a larger oval enclosure (dims. 37m x 30m), the cairn being robbed to provide material for the wall (Raftery 1969, 6; 1994, 41). Also during this later phase of occupation of the hillfort a cist in the cairn was emptied and reused as a hearth (Raftery 1994, 41). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 23 November 2020

• KK020-018002 Hillfort
  Description

  The hillfort is described in the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (2017) as following, 'The partial contour fort surrounds the low-domed summit of Freestone Hill, following the 130m contour at the E, S and W. The hilltop is located at the S foothills of the Castlecomer Hills, overlooking Kilkenny town and a N - S running natural routeway through a gap in the Slieveardagh Hills and Castlecomer Hills. The hillfort [diam. c. 153m N-S; c. 135m E-W] comprises a single low rising bank, maximum 1m in height, with external ditch. It has a total site foot print of 1.5ha. The interior rises towards a flat centre where the partial remains of a circular wall 18m in diameter was surrounded by a larger 37m x 30m oval enclosure (Raftery 1969, 6). Underneath these enclosures, the remains of a cairn was excavated. Raftery (1969, 7) suggests that this was later destroyed by the Iron Age occupants of the site. Excavations were undertaken by Bersu in 1948-1949 and published by Raftery in 1969. Ó Floinn (2000) reanalyzed a number of the artifacts from the site in the late 1990s and has dated them and the site to the Late Bronze Age. First map depiction in first edition Ordnance Survey mapping. More detailed earthwork survey in second edition Ordnance Survey mapping. Excavations by Bersu in 1948-9, published by Raftery (1969). Unpublished geophysical survey of interior by Target geophysical company. Recent unpublished geophysical survey undertaken (2014) by the Roman-Germanic Commission (RGK) of the Deutsches Arch_ologisches Institut and the LIARI project of the Irish Discovery Programme. The univallate hillfort at Freestone Hill was originally dated to the fourth century AD due to the recovery of Roman artifacts (Raftery 1969; Bateson 1973, 45). Although the assemblage is clearly representative of a strong Iron Age presence, coarse-ware pottery discovered underneath the hillfort bank, within the ditch fill and within occupation areas inside the hillfort (Raftery 1969, 91) implies that the original construction and occupation of the hillfort dates to the Late Bronze Age. Raftery (1976, 58-59) later conceded that Freestone Hill was probably constructed in the Late Bronze Age. Ó Floinn (2000) suggests that the ceramic assemblage, as well as other artifacts, date both the hillfort and the enclosure at its centre to the Late Bronze Age. In particular, the composition of three blue glass beads found within habitation layers on the site are likely to be Late Bronze Age (Henderson 1988, 442). A fourth bead is closely paralleled with Later Bronze Age beads on the continent and from Rathgall hillfort Co. Wicklow (Ó Floinn 2000, 17). A single radiocarbon date (810-550 BC) obtained from charcoal recovered in an occupation layer confirms Late Bronze Age/ Early Iron Age occupation (Raftery, 1995; Waddell 1998, 270). Circular cairn at center of the hillfort, approximately 23m in diameter was levelled by later occupation (Raftery 1969, 7). Three inhumations and thirteen cremations were associated with the cairn. The cairn was truncated by a circular wall, 18m in diameter, and a larger (37m x 30m) oval enclosure (Raftery 1969, 6). Two excavated shallow depressions within the larger enclosure at the centre of the hillfort revealed spreads of artifacts and dark soil, and may be considered occupation areas. Four similar features within the hillfort remain unexcavated (Raftery 1969, 41). Thirteen cremations, three inhumations, at least five food vessels and a large quantity of worked flint are associated with earlier activity at the site. Antler picks, coarse-ware pottery and glass beads can be associated with the construction of the hillfort in the Late Bronze Age. Bronze bracelets of Romano-British type, two Roman toilet implements and a Bronze mount and copper coin dating to AD 337-340 to Constantine the Great's rule (Bateson 1973, 45) attest to Iron Age re-occupation of the site. Excavation revealed that the enclosing elements comprised a bank with an external, rock-cut ditch. The profile of the ditch is irregular, varying from flat bottomed to V-shaped (although there is a tendency towards the flat bottomed shape), due most likely, to the builders following natural fissures wherever possible (Raftery 1969, 33). The ditch varies in width and depth, 1.3-2.5m in width (averages 2m) and 0.75-2m in depth (Raftery 1969, 33). The bank is composed of stone and gravel, varying from 2.5-4m wide at its base, rising 0.5-1m above the old ground surface (Raftery 1969, 34). Traces of large blocks may suggest some form of stone facing (Raftery 1969, 34). A potential post-hole was identified on the crest of the bank, however, Raftery (1969, 34-35) suggests this is unlikely to relate to a timber palisade' (http://hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk/records/IR0678). See attached Google Earth satellite image taken on the 27 January 2019 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 4 February 2020

• KK020-024 Enclosure
  Description

  On hillslope opposite the hillfort (KK020-018002-) and cairn (KK020-018001-) across the valley on Freestone Hill. Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and 1900 revision as an irregular roughly oval enclosure (dims. c. 48m N-S; c. 62m E-W). It has subsequently been levelled and can be seen as the cropmark of a fosse on an aerial photograph (ASIAP (17) 0, 1995). Another enclosure (KK020-089----) has also been identified as a cropmark on an aerial photograph adjoining to the N. See attached aerial photograph (ASIAP (17) 0, 1995 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 November 2020

• KK020-089 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB90.AY.03) shows cropmark of an incomplete curvilinear enclosure adjoined to the north of a ringfort (KK020-024----). Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland Date of upload: 29 May 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolgrange.

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 Coolgrange, 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 Coolgrange.

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 Coolgrange with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Coolgrange · Gráinseach Chúil Phobail

Area

1,061,112 m² (106.11 ha, 262.21 acres)

Civil parish

Tiscoffin, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Clara, the unit of the census

Census 2022

756 people lived in 205 households in the Clara electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blanchvillespark, Clarabricken, Grangehill, Moonhall, Rathcash East, Rathcash Little, Rathcash West

Placenames

Coolgrange 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.