In 1837, Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland described Coolrain like this:
COOLRAINE, a village, in the parish of OFFERLANE, barony of UPPER OSSORY, QUEEN'S county, and province of LEINSTER, 4 miles (N. W.) from Mountrath, on the road to Roscrea; containing 53 houses and 324 inhabitants. It is a constabulary police station. A boulting-mill has been erected, and there is a dispensary in the village, near which is the parochial school-house, a neat stone building.—See Offerlane.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Coolrain, in and County Laoighis | Map and description, A Vision of Ireland through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofireland.org/place/29442
Date accessed: 16th May 2024
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