Coolnahay

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolnahay, from 775 m² to 577,854 m² (57.79 ha, 142.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Coolnahay 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.

• 19 Feb 2026Conditional

  the construction of a single storey extension (93.5 sqm) to the rear of the existing dwelling. The proposed extension will consists of an open plan kitchen, dining, and living, along with a pantry, utility room, and plant room. Permission is also sought for works to the existing dwelling for the demolition of the existing attached domestic storage structure (10 sqm) and rebuild as is to accommodate a habitable bathroom (7.9 sqm), together with an increase in the overall height and the formation of a parapet roof to an overall height of 3.1 m. Permission is sought for the construction of a new domestic vehicular entrance onto the adjoining public road located on the south-east side of the site, together with the closure of the existing domestic vehicular entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2660064

• 27 Jan 2026N/a

  Permission is sought for the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling. The proposed extension will provide an open plan kitchen, dining, and living area measuring 51.6 sqm, along with a pantry (3.9 sqm), utility room (4.7 sqm), and plant room (3.7 sqm). Permission is also sought for alterations to the existing dwelling, specifically to the current storage area. These alterations include the installation of a new window on the west-facing façade (side elevation) for ventilation purposes. The storage area will also undergo an increase in floor-to-ceiling height from 1.7 m to 2.4 m and will be finished with a flat roof. In addition, permission is sought for the construction of a new domestic entrance onto adjoining public road located on the southeast side of the site and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660019

• 10 May 2022N/a

  to construct 16 Glamping Pods, with reception, Pavillion with W.C., showers and W.C., parking and to install a treatment system with percolation area with all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22240

• 4 Apr 2022N/a

  to construct 16 glamping pods , with reception , Pavilion with w.c , showers and w.c parking and to install a treatment system with percolation area with all ancillary site works at

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22160

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

• WM018-082 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Surveyed in 2013 and described by McGuinness (2014, 38) as following: 'Circular earthwork (Diam. 33.5 N-S x 33.5m E-W) comprising a low circular mound or platform (Diam. 19.2m N-S x 19.2m E-W) surrounded by a ditch and external bank, located on the top of a natural knoll which appears to have been shaped into the monument; in undulating pastureland with other low knolls nearby. Bank is fairly well preserved except for parts of N side, with a breach (?entrance) 5.1m in width on NE side, and rises up to 0.58m above ditch where highest in S part of monument, and up to 1.13m above external ground level at SE; its width reaches up to 3.7m on W side. Highest part of interior mound or platform is on NE side, which may comprise a small, poorly defined but roughly circular mound 6m in diameter and 0.42m in height; this rises up to 1.45m above the ditch. Ditch is up to 3.4m in width; its base is higher than ground level outside the bank, giving a kind of stepped profile with the central mound or platform noticeably higher than ground level surrounding the monument. A tiny mound (WM018-083----) lies on a low knoll 135m to SW of ring-barrow. Frewin Hill is prominent on horizon to NNE'. See attached plan of barrow surveyed and drawn by ASI Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 23 February 2015

• WM018-083 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  Surveyed in 2013 and described by McGuinness (2014, 38) as following: 'Very low, poorly defined mound with markedly oval ground-plan (Diam. 5m N-S x 9m E-W) on a low glacial knoll in undulating pastureland. Mound reaches a height of up to 0.37m on S side, where its edge is most clearly defined. An ASI fieldworker in 18/3/75 recorded ‘a large stone beside the mound on the NE’, although a colleague on 15/4/81 added that this ‘large stone or small boulder lying just NE of the mound does not appear to be of any significance’. This stone was not seen by the writer and appears to have been since removed. It is uncertain whether this mound is natural or artificial and it is accepted as a possible burial mound only on account of its proximity to a ring-/stepped-barrow (WM018-082----), lying on another knoll 135m to NE. This writer concurs with the concluding observations of the ASI fieldworker who visited the site on 15/4/81: ‘The mound is quite low and rather insignificant. No real evidence that it is an antiquity... The precise nature of the mound is not clear’. Enclosure: About 64m to S of mound is part of another curvilinear earthwork comprising an arc of broad bank 57m in length up to 5m in width, running from E to W, then veering to S, with a 2m-wide gap near the S end, on the S side of which another bank appears to run off to the NW. If this curving bank represents a segment of circular earthwork, the remainder of this continued under the road that runs alongside the field and into a ploughed field on the other side, where it appears to have been removed. The inside of this enclosure appears to have been slightly dished, as the bank rises 0.9m above the interior but only 0.7m above external ground level'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 23 February 2015

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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 Coolnahay with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Coolnahay · Cúil na hÁtha

Area

1,140,816 m² (114.08 ha, 281.9 acres)

Civil parish

Templeoran, and its townlands

Barony

Moygoish

Electoral division

Greenpark, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Balleagny, Drumloose, Gaddrystown, Parcellstown, Shanonagh

Placenames

Coolnahay 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.