Coolree
Coolree is a townland in the civil parish of St. Peter's, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Cúil Fhraoigh.
Parcel 5954531
- Area
- 53,088 m² (5.31 ha, 13.12 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Coolree
Planning applications on this parcel
1 Mar 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an extension to the side of an existing dwelling
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260249
14 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage/store and associate
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201546
1 May 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190595
3 Jul 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A FULLY SERVICED GRANNY FLAT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180900
3 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, AGRICULTURAL BUI
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170242
1 Nov 2016Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLINGHOUSE AND AGRICULTURAL
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161211
21 Oct 2016N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND AGRICULTURAL
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161167
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 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 low. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2986 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 17.6 ha
- 44 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 3,181 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolree, from 227 m² to 108,659 m² (10.87 ha, 26.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Coolree 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
8 Jul 2026N/a
Permission for proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260901
20 Mar 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions to an
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260347
17 Mar 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an extension to the front of an existing dwelling
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260328
3 Mar 2026Refused
Permission for proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260258
1 Mar 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an extension to the side of an existing dwelling
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260249
30 Apr 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an extension to the front and rear
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20240476
2 Apr 2024N/a
Permission for the erection of an extension to the front and rear of an existing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240357
26 May 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for erection of an extension to dwelling to include car port, games r
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210815
14 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage/store and associate
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201546
1 May 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190595
10 Oct 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ERECTIONOF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND ASSOCIATED
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181383
3 Jul 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A FULLY SERVICED GRANNY FLAT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180900
3 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, AGRICULTURAL BUI
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170242
1 Nov 2016Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLINGHOUSE AND AGRICULTURAL
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161211
21 Oct 2016N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND AGRICULTURAL
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161167
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 Coolree.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolree.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolree.
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 Coolree, 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 low. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2986 (ZIP).
- 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
No address of the register names Coolree with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Coolree · Cúil Fhraoigh
- Area
- 176,218 m² (17.62 ha, 43.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Peter's, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Carrick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,831 people lived in 630 households in the Carrick electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Colestown, Forth Commons, Larkinstown, Newbay, Shelmaliere Commons
- Placenames
- Coolree 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.