Coolamain
Coolamain is a townland in the civil parish of Ballynaslaney, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Cúil na Maighean.
Parcel 371892
- Area
- 2,945 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 191 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Coolamain
Planning applications on this parcel
31 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)
Planning permission for the following; to construct extensions to the front and
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250944
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 231.6 ha
- 572 acres
- Land parcels
- 118
- registered freehold, median 3,693 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 39
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
118 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolamain, from 65 m² to 181,378 m² (18.14 ha, 44.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 59 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coolamain 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 May 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260662
25 May 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260660
18 Mar 2026Refused
Permission to construct a dwelling house and a domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260335
16 Sept 2025Refused
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251158
16 Sept 2025Refused
Permission to erect a dwelling house, services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251159
5 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for development which will consist of a single storey extension to
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250955
31 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)
Planning permission for the following; to construct extensions to the front and
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250944
13 Jun 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for A) proposed erection of a two storey front extension to an existi
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250722
9 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of an existing domestic shed to rear of existing
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241091
3 Jul 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240776
14 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for the erection of a steel frame training gym
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240685
11 Jun 2024Refused
Permission for retention of an existing domestic shed to rear of
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240668
26 Apr 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for 1) relocation of dwelling house
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240460
28 Feb 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to block up existing unauthorised entrance and reinstate
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240218
30 Nov 2022Refused
Permission for a temporary retention (5 years) of a temporary dwelling and all
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221588
12 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a serviced dwelling house with all associated
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220946
12 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a serviced dwelling house with all associated sit
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220945
7 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced new dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220144
15 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211755
30 Jun 2021Refused
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211034
28 Jun 2021Refused
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced new dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211021
15 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of dwelling house and domestic garage as built with ass
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210554
22 Mar 2021Refused
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210404
21 Sept 2020Refused
Permission for retention of dwelling house and domestic garage with associated s
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201090
10 Sept 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of a car port and domestic shed to the rear garden
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20201039
The 25 most recent of 39 applications.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Coolamain.
Recorded monuments
- WX032-043001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located at the E end of a low E-W rise in the basin of the River Sow with the N-S stream c. 80m to the E. This is a raised D shaped grass-covered area (dims. 18.5m E-W; 16.5m N-S) with the straight sides at W (L 12m) and S (L 11.5m) where it was disturbed anciently and the spoil added to the interior creating an uneven but rather flat topped mound. It is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5 4.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 3m; ext. D 0.1m) NW SE, but the perimeter is curtailed by an E-W field bank at S and cut be a wide ancient trench (Wth of top 8m; Wth of base 3m; ext. D 1.2m) at W. There is no visible entrance. A square grass-covered annexe (dims. 38m N-S; 38m E-W) attached to the W is defined by low scarps. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 31 August, 2012
- WX032-043002 Enclosure
Description
Located on a low E-W rise in the basin of the River Sow with the N-S stream c. 100m to the E. A square grass-covered area (dims. 38m N-S; 38m E-W) defined by low scarps is attached to the W of rath (WX032-043001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 31 August, 2012
Architectural heritage
- Bog Road Cottage, house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Reroofed, ----. Replacement hipped water reed thatch roof with exposed steel stretchers to decorative raised ridge having blind scallops, cement rendered off-central chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pot, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set perpendicular to road with rendered piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron "farm gate".
- Farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Now disused. Hipped corrugated-iron (south) or slate (north) roof with pressed iron ridges (south) or clay ridge tiles (north), red brick Running bond central chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on limewashed rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered limewashed lime rendered battered walls with mass concrete stepped buttress (north). Square-headed off-central door opening with overgrown threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing six-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in unkempt courtyard perpendicular to road with piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting flat iron double gates.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Coolamain, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolamain.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Coolamain, Oylegate10 sales
The townland
- Name
- Coolamain · Cúil na Maighean
- Area
- 2,315,937 m² (231.59 ha, 572.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballynaslaney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Edermine, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,597 people lived in 537 households in the Edermine electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyrooaun, Ballyvake, Coolakip, Coolaknick, Coolnaboy, Island, Kilmallock, Martingale, Rahale, Theoil, Woodlands
- Placenames
- Coolamain 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.