Coole, County Westmeath

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Coole ({{Irish place name|An Chúil|the corner}}){{cite web | url = https://www.logainm.ie/en/1413762 | title = An Chúil/Coole | website = Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie) | access-date = 18 October 2021}} is a village in County Westmeath, Ireland, on the R395 regional road. It is situated on a plateau that overlooks the part of the Bog of Allen, cultivated for peat for fuel consumption purposes by Bórd na Móna, the government-owned peat production industry and for garden plant soil compost products by Harte Peat Ltd., a private enterprise, and Bórd na Móna.

The village is stretched over a series of junctions and cross-roads. These regional and communal roads connect to Castlepollard to the east, Coolure, near Lough Derravaragh to the south, and Abbeylara to the north-west in neighbouring County Longford. Another communal road accesses and crosses the low-lying bog-land, permitting machinery access to the area.

The village consists of a pub, a post office, a shop, a church, and a medical centre. There is also a primary school and a parish community hall.{{fact|date=March 2020}}

Coole is the birthplace of Lt. Maurice James Dease VC, the first posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross in the Great War at the Battle of Mons.{{cite web|url=https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/untold-stories-49000-irishmen-who-13551793|title=The untold stories of the 49,000 Irishmen who died fighting in World War One|work=Irish Mirror|author=John Patrick Kierans|date=8 November 2018|access-date=28 January 2020}}