Coolaleena
Townland in the civil parish of Noughaval, barony of Kilkenny West, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 92413
- Area
- 38,094 m² (3.81 ha, 9.41 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Coolaleena
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- WM015-013 Burial ground
Description
Depicted as a circular shaped burial ground standing at the junction between the townlands of Coolaleena and Littletown on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. A 'Ruin' is shown at this location on Larkin's 1808 map of Co. Westmeath. The townland boundary of Coolaleena lies immediately to S with Littletown boundary immediately to E. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a small circular-shaped enclosure delimited by a broken line and annotated as ‘Killeenaglina Burying Ground’. On the revised 1912 ed. OS 6-inch map the graveyard is depicted as a square-shaped burial ground. Present remains consist of a roughly square-shaped area (approx. dims. 29m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall with entrance gate at E end of N wall. The remains of a roughly circular-shaped area defined by a scarp is visible to the N and W of the graveyard wall represents the remains of the earlier large circular earthen boundary of the graveyard. The burial ground contains memorials dating from the 18th - 20th centuries. See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 September 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 85.6 ha
- 212 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 7,608 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolaleena, from 818 m² to 225,201 m² (22.52 ha, 55.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coolaleena 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
6 Oct 2025Conditional
to construct a dwelling house with ancillary granny flat, garage, septic tank & percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560489
9 Sept 2024Conditional
construction of Dwelling House, Effluent Treatment System together with site access & all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460322
3 May 2024Conditional
Construction of a bungalow type Dwelling House, detached garage, Entrance, Boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite sewerage system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2432
8 Mar 2024Refused
construction of dwelling house, effluent treatment system & associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460072
7 Mar 2024N/a
construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite sewerage system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2412
26 May 2023Refused
Proposed Construction Of A Bungalow Type Dwelling House, Detached Garage, Entrance, Boundary Fence/Wall, Suitable Onsite Sewerage System With Polishing Filter And All Ancillary Site Works
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2360148
14 Dec 2022Refused
The proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite sewerage system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22565
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Coolaleena.
Recorded monuments
- WM015-020 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a slight rise in gently undulating grassland. Ringfort (WM015-015----) 190m to NE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular-shaped enclosure with some trees on the perimeter, annotated on map as ‘fort’. The enclosing bank of the ringfort has been levelled and reduced to a low scar from NE-E-S-SSW. Now visible as a semi-circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 24m NW-SE) enclosed by an earthen bank, which also serves as a field fence from SSW-W-N-NE, and by a low scarp elsewhere. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 7 September 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolaleena.
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Coolaleena with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Coolaleena
- Area
- 856,068 m² (85.61 ha, 211.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Noughaval, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilkenny West
- Electoral division
- Muckanagh, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynacliffy, Creggan, Kilfaughny, Littletown, Lowpark Or Ballyboy, Lurgan, Tonagh
- Placenames
- Coolaleena 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.