Coolballow
Townland in the civil parish of Kerloge, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford; in Irish Cúl Balbh
- Area
- 45.2 ha
- 112 acres
- Land parcels
- 194
- registered freehold, median 181 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 25
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
194 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolballow, from 3 m² to 58,943 m² (5.89 ha, 14.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 46 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 Coolballow 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
26 May 2026N/a
Permission of a mixed residential development of 94 No. dwelling units within
Permission, 94 homes · Wexford County Council, 20260682
10 Apr 2026Refused
Permission for retention of 152m of an underground stormwater drainage pipe,
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260438
3 Mar 2026Granted (conditional)
Planning permission for the retention of alterations to the entrance and access
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260264
23 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for a mixed residential development of 85 no. dwelling units within
Permission, 85 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250909
26 Jul 2024Refused
Permission of a mixed residential development of 99 no. dwelling units
Permission, 99 homes · Wexford County Council, 20240901
7 Feb 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed extensions and alterations to existing dwelling
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240121
23 Oct 2023N/a
Permission for the retention of garage conversion to living accommodation and
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20231262
28 Sept 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect 44,172.66 M2 of photovoltaic panels on a ground mounted
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231164
7 Sept 2023N/a
Permission to erect 44,172.66 m2 of photovoltaic panels on a ground mounted
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231072
4 Sept 2023N/a
Permission of retention of garage conversion to living accomodation
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231047
23 May 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a development of 82 no. fully serviced
Permission, 82 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230567
31 Mar 2023Refused
Permission for a mixed residential development of 78 No. dwellings within
Permission, 78 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230334
28 Mar 2022Refused
Permission to amend part of the previously approved Phase 3 Masterplan
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220400
16 Mar 2022N/a
Permission to amend part of the previously approved Phase 3 Masterplan as
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220350
7 Oct 2021Refused
Permission for the proposed erection of 98 no. fully serviced dwelling houses
Permission, 98 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211560
4 Feb 2021N/a
Permission for the proposed erection of 98 no. fully serviced dwelling houses
Permission, 98 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210145
25 Jan 2021N/a
Permission for the proposed erection of 98 no. fully serviced dwelling houses co
Permission, 98 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210088
10 Jan 2020Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF 14 NO. FULLY SERVICED SITES TOGETHER
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20141031
9 Oct 2018Granted (conditional)
FULL PLANNING PERMISSION OF A MIXED RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT OF 98 NO. DWELLINGS
Permission, 98 homes · Wexford County Council, 20181380
21 Sept 2018N/a
FULL PLANNING PERMISSION OF A MIXED RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT OF 98 NO. DWELLINGS
Permission, 98 homes · Wexford County Council, 20181289
1 Jun 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING: 1. SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE 2. NEW CAR
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180739
3 Jun 2016Granted (conditional)
RETENTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH RETENTION OF MINOR ALTERA
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160620
23 May 2016N/a
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH RETENTION
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160556
30 Mar 2016Granted (conditional)
PROPOSED REPLACING OF 3 NO.FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSES ON SITE 89, 90 & 91ARD
Permission, 6 homes · Wexford County Council, 20160318
4 Mar 2016Granted (conditional)
ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY EXTENSION AND DETACHED STORAGE SHED DEMOLITION OF AN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160213
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 Coolballow.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolballow.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolballow.
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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3057 (ZIP).
- 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 Coolballow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Coolballow · Cúl Balbh
- Area
- 452,309 m² (45.23 ha, 111.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kerloge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Wexford Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Wexford Rural electoral division: 14,194 people in 5,189 households; 64% 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
- Kerloge, Mulgannon, Rochestown, Rocksborough, Sinnottstown, Starvehall, Whiterock South
- Placenames
- Coolballow 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.