Coola

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coola, from 132 m² to 167,539 m² (16.75 ha, 41.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

• R2Established Residential (Existing residential)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Kilbeggan, Westmeath · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R3Consolidation Site (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Kilbeggan, Westmeath · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S1Community, Educational & Institutional (Education)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Kilbeggan, Westmeath · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Open Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Kilbeggan, Westmeath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 23 Apr 2026N/a

  development which will consist of the construction of 54 no. dwellings comprising: 6 no. terraced 3 bed 2 storey houses (Type A1), 8 no. semi-detached/ terraced 3 bed 2 storey houses (Type B1), 22 no. semi-detached 3 bed 2 storey houses (Type B2), 1 no. semi-detached 3 bed 2 storey house (Type C1), 1 no. semi-detached 3 bed 2 storey house (Type C2), 2 no. detached/ semi-detached 4 bed 2 storey houses (Type D2), 2 no. detached/ semi-detached 4 bed 2 storey houses (Type E1), 2 no. semi-detached 4 bed 2.5 storey houses (Type F1), 2 no. semi-detached 4 bed 2.5 storey houses (Type F2) and 8 no. 1 bed own hall door self-contained apartments in 1 no. 2 storey block. The development will also include car parking, bin and bicycle stores, public / communal open spaces, site services including foul pumping station & associated rising main, landscaping, boundary treatments and all ancillary site development works, with vehicular and pedestrian access from the Dublin Road (R446) all on site of circa 1.84 Ha.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660199

• 11 Sept 2018Conditional

  construction of a two storey, 650 pupil, post-primary school (c. 8300sqm) - including general teaching and administration rooms, a PE Hall with fitness suites, a Special Needs Unit, external stores, ESB substation, 58 staff car park spaces, 70 cycle parking spaces, bus and car set down and pick up facilities, 2 no. basketball courts, hard and grass play areas, soft landscaping, new vehicular and pedestrian site entrance and exit points and associated site development works. The proposed development also includes the following works outside the site boundary: a new footpath and cycle lane along R446 road, new street light posts, connection to existing foul sewer network, traffic calming measures including median islands, new road markings and alteration to existing road markings.

  Permission consequent · Westmeath County Council, 186278

• 13 Feb 2018Conditional

  Complete refurbishment and extension of the existing single storey house structure to include inter alia removal of an attached single storey rear garage/storage area and utility area and the construction of a new rear single storey extension (with dormer accommodation over), together with the construction of new attic accommodations to existing house including also feature dormer window windows, PV panels and proprietary rooflights throughout, including also, altered ground floor entrances and fenestrations together with all associated services The construction of a detached single storey workshop (for domestic use only), remote to house, (to rear of adjacent field, to north-west) with all associated site works and access roadway. Alterations to location and width of existing vehicular entrance onto public road along with closing up of existing pedestrian and vehicular entrances and provision of new associated hedgerows and indigenous planting and other ancillary site works throughout to site boundaries , All surface water drainage to drain to soakaways within site and all alterations to foul drainage to allow the refurbished residence to utilize the existing septic tank on the site until such time as the foul sewer (on the R446) serving the adjacent proposed new post primary school is availavel for use and connection thereto.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186043

• 16 Mar 2017Conditional

  The construction of a two storey 650 pupil post primary school(c. 8300sqm) - including general teaching and administration rooms, a PE Hall with fitness suites, a Special Needs Unit, external stores, ESB substation, 58 staff car park spaces, 70 cycle parking spaces, bus and car set down and pick up facilities, 2 no basketball courts, hard and grass play areas, soft landscaping, new vehicular and pedestrian site entrance and exit points and associated site development works, The proposed development also includes the following works outside the site boundary: a new footpath and cycle lane along R446 road, new street light posts, connection to existing foul sewer network via rising main, traffic calming measures including median islands, new road markings and alteration to existing road markings

  Outline permission · Westmeath County Council, 176082

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 Coola.

Recorded monuments

• WM038-018 Building
  Description

  Situated in a small trapezoidal-shaped greenfield plot, to rear of a small dwelling plot on the Mullingar Road, on the E side of Kilbeggan. Building depicted as a ruin on Larkin’s 1808 map of Co. Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580). Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map. Monument described in 1979 as no surface remains visible. Site of ruin is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 17 December 2019

• WM038-064 Enclosure
  Description

  Partial cropmark of possible enclosure (approx. diam. 65m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 07 May 2019

Architectural heritage

• Coola Bridge, bridge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Five-arch road bridge, built c.1780, carrying the Mullingar Road over the River Brosna and adjacent millrace associated with Coola Mills. Constructed of rubble limestone with dressed limestone voussoirs to arches and rubble stone coping. V-profile cutwaters on upstream elevation (east). Reconstructed at northeast end c.1980. The bridge is effectively in two sections - three arches over the River Brosna (north) and a further two over the millrace (south) which is a cut across a bend in the river to serve the mill. Located to the north of Kilbeggan.

• Kiln, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corn mill complex, built c.1770 and extended c.1830, comprising main multiple-bay five-storey building on L-shaped plan, four-bay five storey mill and associated ancillary structures including the remains of a corn kiln to west. Now derelict and out of use. Roofs now gone, brick crenellated parapet with limestone coping over to main structure and barrel-vaulted corrugated metal roof to four-bay five-storey structure. Constructed mainly of rubble limestone with lime render over. Segmental-headed waterwheel opening to north side of north-facing building (possibly a corn store) with dressed limestone voussoirs. Flush dressed limestone quoins to corners of main building. Square-headed window openings remains of timber sliding sash and timber casement windows, cast-iron bars to ground floor windows. Ruins of three-bay single-storey building with pointed-arched windows and hoodmouldings over to south of main structure, possibly a mill worker's cottage. Set back from road in own grounds on south bank of River Brosna and to west of Coola Bridge. Remains of millrace and sluices to north running east-west. Rubble limestone boundary wall to west.

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).

No address of the register names Coola with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Coola · Cúil Átha

Area

819,830 m² (81.98 ha, 202.58 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeggan, and its townlands

Barony

Moycashel

Electoral division

Kilbeggan, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinwire, Camagh, Grangegibbon, Kilbeggan, Kilbeggan North, Loughanagore

Placenames

Coola on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.