Cooloughter

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooloughter, from 240 m² to 140,163 m² (14.02 ha, 34.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Cooloughter 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.

• 13 Jan 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house along with all

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250019

• 15 Jan 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for change of use of existing dwelling to community dwelling;

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20240024

• 4 Sept 2020N/a

  Outline Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling and

  Outline permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201017

• 29 Sept 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161070

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 the townland of Cooloughter.

Recorded monuments

• WX047-131 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated at the crest of a S-facing slope. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (31) 31, 33; (49) 20, 21). The burnt spread (WX047-131002-) is c. 90m to the SW and the excavated features (WX047-131001-) are c. 170m to the NW. 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: 14 October, 2013

• WX047-131001 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Situated on a slight bluff with lower ground c. 50m to the W and c. 100m to the S. Archaeological testing (07E0246) produced evidence of a large charcoal-filled pit (dims 2.3m x 1m) of likely prehistoric date with a ditch (Wth c. 1.7m; D 0.8m) 12m to the N and three smaller pits (diam. 0.6-0.7m) c. 20m to the E. The features are located c. 170m NW of ring-ditch (WX047-131----). (McLoughlin 2007, 5)

• WX047-131002 Burnt mound
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope with a small E-W stream c. 20m to the S. Archaeological testing (07E0246) produced a length of burnt mound material (L 10m) with an adjacent pit (diam. 1.5m) just to the N. The ring-ditch (WX047-131----) is c. 90m to the NE. (McLoughlin 2007, 5)

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay two-storey on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting glazed porch to ground floor. Extended, pre-1903, producing present composition. Sold, 1906. Occupied, 1911. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles extending into pressed iron ridges, paired red brick Running bond central chimney stacks having stepped capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on limewashed slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Limewashed lime rendered or roughcast walls. Segmental-headed central door opening into farmhouse with rendered "bas-relief" surround framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings including one square-headed window opening in tripartite arrangement (ground floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds.

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

At the centre of the townland of Cooloughter, about 1 in 20 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 Cooloughter.

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.

No address of the register names Cooloughter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Cooloughter · Cúil Uachtair

Area

445,193 m² (44.52 ha, 110.01 acres)

Civil parish

Mayglass, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Killinick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

927 people lived in 339 households in the Killinick electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydoyle, Braestown, Cloon, Cregg, Crosstown, Petitstown

Placenames

Cooloughter 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.