Coolure Demesne

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolure Demesne, from 3 m² to 164,513 m² (16.45 ha, 40.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Coolure Demesne 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.

• 18 Oct 2025Refused

  to construct a single storey dwelling & install a wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560511

• 27 May 2025Conditional

  Permission Retention permission for (i) decommissioning of existing septic tank and percolation area and installation of a new septic tank with percolation area with all ancillary site works (ii) retention of shed to the rear of the site

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560258

• 18 Dec 2017Conditional

  demolition of existing garage/stores/back kitchen circa 112sqm. Construction of an extension of circa 181sqm on the north-east end of the existing house. The application shall provide for the replacement of the existing septic tank/soakaway with a modern waste water treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176356

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Lough Derravaragh SPA 004043
• Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derravaragh NHA 000684

Recorded monuments

• WM007-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This impressive ringfort at Coolure Demesne was possibly a royal site belonging to the Uí Fiachrach Cúile Fobhair (O'Sullivan et. al. 2007, 36). Situated on floodplain of Lough Derravaragh on S facing slope of low ridge running N-S overlooking the N shoreline of the lake. Crannog (WM007-004----) 160m to S. Bog 1km to NW. This monument was originally situated on the edge of the lake prior to drainage as depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map where it is depicted as a polygonal shaped grove of trees. Present remains consist of a large D-shaped raised area (approx. diam. 60m N-S: 80m E-W) with straight side at S enclosed by a well preserved earthen bank, a deep V-shaped fosse and an outer bank only visible from SW-W. Entrance gap and causeway at E. The interior has a slight slope from N-S and has been planted with trees. An area of forestry surrounds the site at N. This site may have been a form of inland promontory fort or ringfort utilising the lakeshore location as a defensive feature. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 February 2017

Architectural heritage

• Coolure House, country house, 1770–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey over basement house, built c.1775, with two-storey extension to the east, built c.1820. Altered, c.1980, to accommodate use as a children's activity/education centre. Now in use as a private residence. Half-hipped natural slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and two ashlar limestone stone chimneystacks, aligned parallel to roof ridge. Roughcast rendered walls. Shallow segmental-headed window openings to front façade (north), diminishing in size towards eaves, having cut stone sills and replacement windows. Square-headed doorcase to centre of front façade having early timber panelled door. Doorcase set in cut limestone tripartite Doric surround with sidelights having an open bed pediment and a spoked fanlight over. Door reached by a cut limestone step and bridge over basement. Basement to entrance front (north) surrounded by ashlar limestone plinth wall having cast-iron railings over. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds on the northern shores of Lough Derravaragh, having an extensive complex of outbuildings/stables/warehouses arranged around two courtyards to the east (15400702, 15400705). Located to the west of Castlepollard.

• Coolure House, barn, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay two-storey barn, built c.1860, with ranges of single-storey lean-to sheds to the east side. Now a roofless ruin. Quadruple-gabled roof, originally pitched, having raised limestone verges to gable ends. Constructed of squared coursed limestone rubble with dressed limestone quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings having dressed limestone surrounds and cut stone sills, fittings gone. Segmental-headed carriage-arches having dressed limestone voussoirs. Located to the east of Coolure House (15400701).

• Coolure House, farmyard complex, 1780–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of multi-bay single and two-storey outbuildings associated with Coolure House (15400701), built c.1780 and extended c.1850, arranged around two conjoined courtyard complex. Courtyard to the east and the north range of the west complex, built c.1780, comprising two-storey stable ranges, single-storey piggery, harness room, two-storey stores/warehouses, ancillary structures and a number of terraced two-bay two-storey estate worker's houses (to the south range). Complex to the east extended c.1850 with the construction of two-storey stable ranges, stores, ancillary structures and a steam-powered threshing mill. Constructed of squared rubble limestone and/or rubble limestone with dressed limestone detailing. Pitched natural slate roofs having cast-iron rainwater goods and dressed limestone chimneystacks (mainly to the western ranges). Overhanging bracketed eaves supported on timber brackets to a number of ranges to the eastern complex. Cut stone bellcote to north gable end of detached building which separates courtyard complex. Square-headed window and door openings having dressed limestone surrounds (including a number of block-and-start surrounds, timber sliding sash windows (mainly to stable ranges) and timber sheeted doors. Chamfered dressed limestone surrounds with diamond pane cast-iron windows to a number of window openings to the former worker's houses in the western complex, some paired and divided by dressed limestone mullions. Cast-iron security bars to animal buildings and piggery. Loop hole openings to first floor to a number of buildings to the western complex. Segmental-headed carriage arches having dressed limestone voussoirs, a number with timber sheeted double doors. Located adjacent to the east of Coolure House (15400701) with draw well to site. Remains of a substantial walled garden adjacent to the north.

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).

Radon

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Coolure Demesne.

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolure Demesne.

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.

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

Name

Coolure Demesne · Cúil Iúir

Area

1,426,785 m² (142.68 ha, 352.57 acres)

Civil parish

Mayne, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Coolure, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Coolure electoral division: 352 people in 132 households; 74% of households own their home; 13% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kiltoom, Lispopple, Portjack, Simonstown, Williamstown

Placenames

Coolure Demesne 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.