Coolgower

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolgower, from 158 m² to 82,838 m² (8.28 ha, 20.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G3HA (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 17 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 25 Aug 2026N/a

  to construct a single storey side extension to provide master bedroom ensuite and TV Room

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2686

• 12 Aug 2026N/a

  to construct a single storey side extension to existing property

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2677

• 11 May 2026N/a

  residential dwelling apartment unit over existing garage building as constructed (originally previously granted permission, planning reference number PD00/993), private borehole, waste water treatment system and percolation area with access from shared right of way private roadway serviced by original vehicular entrance onto Tramore Road (previously granted permission planning reference number PD00/993) and all ancillary works and associated site works

  Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2644

• 22 Jan 2026N/a

  residentials dwellings apartments unit over existing garage building as constructed (originally previously granted permission , planning reference number PD00/993) , private borehole , waste water treatment system , and percolation area, with access from shared right of way private roadway serviced by original vehicular entrance onto Tramore Road (previously granted permission , planning reference number PD00/993) and all associated ancillary works and associated site works

  Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 265

• 22 Oct 2025Refused

  to construct a first floor extension over the existing rear extension to provide an additional bedroom, sun lounge, toilet and external balcony

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 25155

• 10 Oct 2025N/a

  to construct a first floor extension over the existing rear extension to provide an additional bedroom, sun lounge, toilet and external balcony

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 25148

• 30 Sept 2025N/a

  to construct a first floor rear extension over the existing rear extension of the property

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 25141

• 16 Sept 2025N/a

  to construct a first floor rear extension over the existing rear extension of the property

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 25134

• 22 Apr 2024Conditional

  of domestic detached garage and all ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2480

• 28 Mar 2024N/a

  domestic detached garage and all ancillary works

  Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2463

• 4 Oct 2023Conditional

  to install a new waste water treatment plant and associated percolation area to (front garden of) existing single storey dwelling (X91 P5X9) and to install a second new waste water treatment plant and associated percolation area to adjoining commercial yard (to rear of existing commercial showrooms) (X91PK18) together with all necessary and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 23281

• 7 Feb 2023Refused

  Planning Permission is sought to renovate and subdivide existing single storey main dwelling into 2 residential units (1 no. 2 bedroom unit and 1 no. 1 bedroom unit) and for a change of use of existing single storey garage (to rear of dwelling) to a 1no. bedroom residential unit. It is also proposed to make modifications to existing septic tank (to front garden) to include the installation of a new percolation area and to install a new water treatment plant and percolation area to adjoining commercial yard (to rear of commercial showrooms) and to make minor modifications to the (northern) site entrance to the site with all necessary site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2336

• 31 Jan 2023N/a

  To renovate and subdivide existing single storey main dwelling, into 2 residential units, (1 no. 2 bedroom unit and 1 no. 1 bedroom unit), and for a change of use of existing single storey garage (to rear of dwelling) to a 1 no. bedroom residential unit. It is also proposed make modifications to existing septic tank (to front garden) to include the installation of a new percolation area and to install a new water treatment plant and percolation area to adjoining commercial yard (to rear of existing commercial showrooms) and to make minor modifications to the (Northern) site entrance to the site with all necessary site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2329

• 25 Oct 2022Conditional

  to construct a single storey side and rear extension to property

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 22910

• 14 Apr 2022N/a

  material changes to main showroom (single storey structure). This will incorporate the subdivision of the main showroom into 2 no. showrooms under the existing use as retail. 2 no. new showroom entrances (in addition to existing showroom entrance) are proposed along with new disabled access ramp to side of building and access steps to front of building. New signage is also proposed in addition to existing signage and to reopen former window openings along the rear and side elevations, together with all associated site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 22312

• 21 May 2021Conditional

  for the infill of existing agricultural lands with 95000 tonnes of inert material (EU Waste Class 17 05 04) together with all associated site development works all at

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 21459

• 17 Sept 2018Refused

  2 no. free standing advertising signs and 1 no. fence mounted advertising sign

  Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 18628

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 Coolgower.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolgower.

Architectural heritage

• Ballinamona House, gate lodge, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey gate lodge, c.1870, on a symmetrical plan retaining original fenestration comprising three-bay single-storey canted projecting central bay with single-bay single-storey recessed flanking end bays. Now in private residential use. Hipped slate roofs on a T-shaped plan (extending into half-polygonal section to canted projecting bay) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered piers to entrance bay. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door, c.1995. Set back from line of road in own grounds with sections of replacement steel railings, c.1995, to front having steel piers with replacement steel gate, c.1995.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolgower.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Coolgower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Coolgower · Cúil Ghabhar

Area

444,840 m² (44.48 ha, 109.92 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbarry, and its townlands

Barony

Gaultiere

Electoral division

Kilbarry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilbarry electoral division: 245 people in 74 households; 93% of households own their home; 73% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinamona, Ballindud, Ballykinsella, Duagh

Placenames

Coolgower 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.