Coolback
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyanne, barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford; in Irish Cúl Baic
- Area
- 80.4 ha
- 199 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 7,699 m² (0.77 ha, 1.9 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolback, from 608 m² to 277,142 m² (27.71 ha, 68.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Coolback 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
21 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct cubicles shed with effluent tank and all associated site
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221400
15 Nov 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO EXTEND DWELLING. DEVELOPMENT WORKS WILL CONSIST OF CONSTRUCTION OF
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171480
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Barrow River Estuary 000698
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolback.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolback.
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 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolback.
- 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 Coolback with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Coolback · Cúl Baic
- Area
- 803,657 m² (80.37 ha, 198.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyanne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Ballyanne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyanne electoral division: 793 people in 276 households; 84% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyanne, Ballynabanoge
- Placenames
- Coolback 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.