Coollusty
Townland in the civil parish of Athleague, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 143.6 ha
- 355 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 23,520 m² (2.35 ha, 5.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coollusty, from 925 m² to 146,483 m² (14.65 ha, 36.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coollusty 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Aug 2025Conditional
Permission for the construction of a multi purpose domestic outbuilding at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560403
26 Jun 2023Conditional
Permission for the temporary retention of a mobile home to provide temporary on-site accommodation for persons employed and otherwise engaged in connection with the carrying out of the development of renovating and extending the dwelling during the period for which the development is being carried out at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 23276
19 Apr 2023N/a
Retention Permission for temporary retention of a mobile home to provide temporary on-site accommodation for persons employed and otherwise engaged in connection with the carrying out of the development of renovating and extending the dwelling during the period for which the developments is being carried out at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 23143
1 Nov 2021Conditional
Retention Permission for temporary retention of a mobile home to provide temporary on-site accommodation for persons employed and otherwise engaged in connection with the carrying out of the development of renovating and extending the dwelling during the period for which the development is being carried out at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 21621
22 Oct 2021N/a
Temporary retention of mobile home to provide temporary on-site accommodation for persons employed and otherwise engaged in connection with the carrying out of the development of renovating and extending the dwelling during the period for which the development is being carried out at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 21599
19 Mar 2021Conditional
for retention and completion of a first floor rear extension above an existing utility room and a single storey rear extension to an existing dwelling house along with internal alterations at
Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21144
15 Jan 2021N/a
to construct a first floor rear extension above an existing utility room and to construct a single storey rear extension extension to an existing dwelling along with internal alterations at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2112
12 Jan 2021N/a
permission for first floor rear extension above existing utility room and single storey ground floor extension together with internal alterations at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 215
15 Jun 2017Conditional
Planning Permission to demolish existing dwelling and outhouses, construct replacement two storey dwelling, domestic garage, upgrade existing septic tank with proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, associated site development works and services at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17263
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lisduff Turlough SAC 000609
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lisduff Turlough 000609
Recorded monuments
- RO041-076001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the crest of a low WNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 39m E-W; 35.6m N-S) defined by an overgrown earth and stone bank (Wth 4.5-5.8m; int. H 0.3-0.6m; ext. H 1-1.8m), and an outer rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.2-5.5m; Wth of base 1.5m; D 0.4-0.6m) N-SE and SSW-W. There are entrances at NW (Wth 3.8m) and SE (Wth 3m). Rath (RO041-076002-) is 6m to the SSW. See the attached aerial image (centre) taken from the NE Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO041-076002 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the S-facing slope of a slight WNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 36.6m E-W; 33.2m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.7-5m; int. H 0.2-0.6m; ext. H 0.6-1.7m), with a rounded fosse (Wth of top 4m; Wth of base 1.6m; D 0.45m) WSW-NNW. There is an entrance (Wth 3m) at E. Rath (RO041-076001-) is 6m to the NNE. See the attached aerial image (back, left) taken from the NE Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO041-077001 Cross - Wayside cross
Description
On a gentle N-facing slope and on the S side of the Athleague-Athlone road (R 362). It is in the front garden of a house. This is a latin cross of limestone (H 1.3m; Wth 0.21m; T 0.13m) with one arm missing and leaning to the NW. It has no inscription, but an inscribed limestone slab (RO041-112----) with the name 'Kelly' and the date 1643, which may be part of the missing arm, is kept at a nearby house. (Siggins 1986b, 34) See the attached image Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO041-077002 Inscribed stone
Description
On a gentle N-facing slope and on the S side of the Athleague-Athlone road (R362). This is part of the wayside cross (RO041-077001-). An inscribed limestone slab with the name 'Kelly' and the date 1643 was kept at the cross but was moved to a nearby house (RO041-112----). (Siggins 1986b, 34) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO041-078 Enclosure - large enclosure
Description
Marked as a large circular enclosure (diam. c. 90m) on the 1837 and 1928 eds of the OS 6-inch map, with an entrance at NE on the latter, and situated on a rise in a fairly level landscape. It was described in 1956 as a D-shaped area (diam. c. 100m N-S) with a straight side (L c. 67m) at W defined by an earthen bank (at N: Wth c. 3m; int. H c. 0.9m; ext. H c. 1.8m) with no visible fosse, and with an entrance (Wth c. 9m) at E (SMR file). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 January 2013
- RO041-112 Inscribed stone (present location)
Description
On a gentle N-facing slope and on the S side of the Athleague-Athlone road (R362). This is part of the wayside cross (RO041-077001-). An inscribed limestone slab with the name 'Kelly' and the date 1643 was kept nearby at a nearby house but its presence at an abandoned house cannot be confirmed. (Siggins 1986b, 34) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coollusty.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1342 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Coollusty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Coollusty
- Area
- 1,435,911 m² (143.59 ha, 354.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Athleague, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Electoral division
- Athleague East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Athleague East electoral division: 510 people in 184 households; 87% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Athleague, Carrowreagh, Clooneen, Keenagh (Clanrickard), Keenagh (Donnellan East), Keenagh (Donnellan West), Kilmore, Kilnagralta, Lisduff
- Placenames
- Coollusty 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.