Coolatore
Townland in the civil parish of Ferns, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford; in Irish Cúil an Tuair
- Area
- 90 ha
- 222 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 2,432 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolatore, from 31 m² to 302,804 m² (30.28 ha, 74.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coolatore 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 Jan 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a new building, to provide segregated
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250007
10 Dec 2024N/a
Permission for the construction of a new building to provide segregated
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241535
29 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage with associat
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211676
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 Coolatore.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolatore.
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed windbreak. Occupied, 1911. Hipped thatch roof overhanging lean-to roofs to window openings to half-dormer attic with chicken wire-covered exposed wire stretchers to degraded decorative raised ridge having exposed scallops, red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta pots, and chicken wire-covered exposed wire stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Roughcast battered walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed off-central door opening with concrete step threshold, and concealed dressings framing replacement glazed uPVC panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in landscaped grounds perpendicular to road with rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron "sunburst" 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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Coolatore.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Coolatore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Coolatore · Cúil an Tuair
- Area
- 899,817 m² (89.98 ha, 222.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ferns, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- The Harrow, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- The Harrow electoral division: 522 people in 177 households; 85% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintore, Ballycarrigeen Lower, Ballyhaddock, Carrigeen, Effernoge
- Placenames
- Coolatore 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.