Coontraght

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coontraght, from 1,642 m² to 20,126 m² (2.01 ha, 4.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Coontraght 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.

• 16 Aug 2023Conditional

  for a bungalow style dwelling, vehicular entrance, connection to watermain, detached garage, foul treatment tank, percolation area and all associated site works. Previously granted under Planning Permission Ref Nos. 17833 and 21786

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 23201

• 21 Apr 2023Refused

  of Planning Permission Reference P21/786

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 2398

• 17 Sept 2021Conditional

  for a change of house type, and all associated site works, to the previously granted planning permission Reference No. P.17/833

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21786

• 15 Dec 2017Conditional

  for a detached single storey residential dwelling, detached single storey garage, wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17833

• 27 Sept 2017Conditional

  to build a dry store shed and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17639

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 Coontraght.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coontraght.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Coontraght, 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

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

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

Name

Coontraght · An Phuntracht

Area

96,156 m² (9.62 ha, 23.76 acres)

Civil parish

Tullaghanbrogue, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelogher

Electoral division

Tullaghanbrogue, the unit of the census

Census 2022

546 people lived in 178 households in the Tullaghanbrogue electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Booly, Desart Demesne, Riesk, Ryelanes

Placenames

Coontraght 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.