Coolnagun

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolnagun, from 1,917 m² to 719,763 m² (71.98 ha, 177.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Coolnagun 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.

• 17 Apr 2025Conditional

  The erection of a guyed wind monitoring mast, with instruments, 120 metres in height and all ancillary works necessary for its construction and maintenance, for a period of six years. The purpose of the proposed mast is to assess the suitability of the surrounding area for wind farm development. The application will include a Natura Impact Statement.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560189

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 Coolnagun.

Recorded monuments

• WM002-018 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on flat poorly drained grassland with stream 20m to NNE. No surface remains visible of levelled monument, however outline of monument is visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. The site is relatively low-lying and almost flat. Land rises gently from the site on all sides except the SE where ridges and small hills are visible on the sky line. Monument surveyed in 1967 and described as a small circular raised area or platform (approx. diam. 27m) enclosed by a bank (ext. H 1m) and wet waterlogged outer fosse (approx. Wth 2m; ext. D 0.6m) with straight side at SW where monument has been intersected by a drainage ditch running NW-SE as depicted on 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map (OPW Field Report). On this map the monument is depicted as a roughly circular area enclosed by a bank, fosse and external bank which is intersected at SW by a drainage ditch running NW-SE. The drainage ditch cuts across the enclosing outer bank and fosse at SW-W. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 23 November 2016

• WM002-019 Castle - motte
  Description

  Situated on a low E-W ridge in good pasture overlooking moated site (WM002-020----) 110m to the S. An old roadway running E-W runs past the base of the motte on the N side the outline of which is depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and which is visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. A building marked as 'Coolnagun Castle' on the 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map stands 250m to NW. Although designated a motte, this monument could possibly be a platform-type ringfort later re-used as a motte. A fairly high steep-sided flat-topped mound (top diam. c. 13m) defined by a scarp the base of which is enclosed by a fosse with the remains of an external earthen bank which is best preserved from W-N. The outer bank is badly defaced from S-W where it is intersected by a modern field fence, the fosse has been filled inform S-SW. There is a modern gap in the NW sector and traces of a causeway, also modern, across the fosse at S. The top of the mound is very uneven due to disturbance and slip. There is an OS trig. station on the summit of the motte. A wide low bank runs in an E direction from near the S side of the earthwork. The significance of this bank is not obvious. Outside the monument on the N side there are very slight traces of an old field bank running in an E-W direction. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 23 November 2016

• WM002-020 Moated site
  Description

  Situated on low ridge running N-S on well drained pasture-land with stream 30m to S and motte (WM002-019----) 110m to NNE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a small square-shaped field transected by a field boundary at S running E-W. A square-shaped area (dims. 35m NNE-SSW; 35m WNW-SSE) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.4-10m) mainly reduced to a scarp at S and shallow external fosse (Wth 5-6m; int. D 0.4m; ext. D 1-2m) best preserved ay E with causewayed entrance (Wth 5.2m) at N located off centre to E. The interior has a slight slope from NE-SW. The bank is highest on the NE corner where it has a definite raised or rounded profile. This artificially raised area extends along the crest of the bank to the N and slightly so to the E. The corners are fairly sharp particularly NE & NW. The bank is very defaced on the S side where the fosse is barely visible. The fosse on the S side is continued on as an old field ditch to the E & W of the monument. See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 November 2016

• WM002-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the W end of a steep narrow E-W ridge surrounded by relatively low lying very gentle undulating land of poor to good quality pasture. Land immediately outside fort tends to be waterlogged. Good views in all directions from centre of ringfort. Monument not indicated on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. An oval shaped area (diam. 41m) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank with trace of an external fosse visible at E and W only, possible causewayed entrance (Wth 1.75m) at E. On the S side a modern field fence encroaches on the site. The interior is very uneven with disturbance caused by gravel quarrying at S. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 November 2016

• WM002-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on low rise of poorly drained land with stream immediately to W. Ringfort (WM002-022---) 175m to NNE, ringfort (WM002-021----) 85m to SW. partially depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map where a quarry is shown on the W side of the earthwork. A second quarry is also depicted a few metres to the S of the earthwork on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. On the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map a rectangular building is shown in the SSW quadrant of the earthwork in the area where the quarry was marked on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The enclosing element on the W half of monument has been quarried away. Present remains consist of a large sub-triangular shaped area (dims. 72m NNW-SSE; 54m WSW-ENE) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 6-7.8m; int. H 0.3-1.2m; ext. H 1.9m) visible from N-E-SSE only elsewhere it has been reduced to a scarp (H 0.8-1.4m) and external fosse visible from N-E-SE only. No entrance feature visible. A rectangular-shaped flat-topped mound (13m NNW-SSE; 10.4m WSW-NNE; H 0.8-1m) in the W quadrant of the interior could be post 1700 upcast from quarrying activities along W edge of monument. There is a small rectangular enclosure (house site) (WM002-023001-) on the upper edge of the scarp on the N. In the NW quadrant close to the scarp a small sub-rectangular area delimited by an embankment of earth and stone may possible represent a house site. In the N quadrant a low earth bank extends across the interior as a form of partition delimiting a sub-rectangular area. Old cultivation ridges in evidence in SE quadrant of interior. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 November 2016

• WM002-023001 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on low rise of poorly drained land with stream immediately to W. Ringfort (WM002-022---) 175m to NNE, ringfort (WM002-021----) 85m to SW. Ringfort partially depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map where a quarry is shown on the W side of the earthwork. A second quarry is also depicted a few metres to the S of the earthwork on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. On the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map a rectangular building is shown in the SSW quadrant of the earthwork in the area where the quarry was marked on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The enclosing element on the W half of monument has been quarried away. Present remains consist of a large sub-triangular shaped with a rectangular-shaped flat-topped mound (13m NNW-SSE; 10.4m WSW-NNE; H 0.8-1m) in the W quadrant of the interior could be post 1700 upcast from quarrying activities along W edge of monument. There is a small rectangular enclosure (house site) (on the upper edge of the scarp on the N. In the NW quadrant close to the scarp a small sub-rectangular area delimited by an embankment of earth and stone may possible represent a house site. In the N quadrant a low earth bank extends across the interior as a form of partition delimiting a sub-rectangular area. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 November 2016

• WM002-024001 Hut site
  Description

  Depicted as a D-shaped earthwork on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Situated on a low NE facing slope of low rise on flat pasture with bogland now planted with trees nearby to NE. Ringfort (WM002-025----) 160m to SSE. D-shaped ringfort (WM002-024----) with a very low artificially raised platform of irregular plan in SW quadrant of interior which may be a house site. There are two old ditch and bank features extending NE from the N & NE sides of site. The whole SE side of the site has been truncated by a modern ditch and field bank. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 November 2016

• WM002-032 Road - unclassified togher
  Description

  No paper file in ASI Archives, Caimin O'Brien, 04/11/2016.

• WM002-033 Windmill
  Description

  Monument described in 1980 as ‘the ruins of a small circular stone built structure (int. diam. 3.1m; wall T 0.8m; H c. 4m) with a solid stone built projection (L 1m; Wth 2.9m) on the SE. The structure shows evidence of having had 2 floors but its original height is uncertain. There is a rectangular doorway (Wth 0.8-0.9m; H 1.68m) on the N, this narrows in width from bottom to top. There are 2 narrow window opes (Wth 0.33-0.28m; H 0.64m) in the ground floor both with internal splays and both narrowing in width from bottom to top, one on the NE and the other on the NW. There is a small fireplace (Wth 0.88m; H 0.8m; D 0.57m) in the NE above the ground floor window and a window on the WSW, this is wider than the windows on the ground floor but its stop is missing. The structure is built of small blocks of undressed limestone with small flat stones also laid in regular course and bonded with a rough mortar. The windmill is just S of a narrow stream or drain in boggy land, on the edge of Coolnagun bog’ (SMR File 04/03/1980). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 23 July 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 Coolnagun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Coolnagun · Cúil na gCon

Area

3,922,822 m² (392.28 ha, 969.35 acres)

Civil parish

Street, and its townlands

Barony

Moygoish

Electoral division

Street, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinealoe, Boherquill, Bottomy, Clonava, Corralanna, Correaly, Kiltareher, Lisduff, Lisnagappagh, Mayne, Shrubbywood

Placenames

Coolnagun 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.