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Coolboy

Coolboy is a townland in the civil parish of Inch (New Ross Ra), barony of Shelmaliere West, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is An Chúil Bhuí.

Area
168.8 ha
417 acres
Land parcels
92
registered freehold, median 3,503 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
Zoning
—
not in a zoned settlement
Planning
11
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

CoolboyBallyliamgowKayleBallynamonaNewbawnKilbraneyNewcastle
1,000 m
114 parcels are drawn. Click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolboy, from 14 m² to 245,898 m² (24.59 ha, 60.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Coolboy 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

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 Coolboy.

Recorded monuments

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolboy.

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 Coolboy, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred.
Terrain model
No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolboy.
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

The townland

Name
Coolboy · An Chúil Bhuí
Area
1,688,303 m² (168.83 ha, 417.19 acres)
Civil parish
Inch (New Ross Ra), and its townlands
Barony
Shelmaliere West
Electoral division
Inch, the unit of the census
Census 2022
602 people lived in 205 households in the Inch electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Ballyliamgow, Ballynamona, Kayle, Kilbraney, Newbawn
Placenames
Coolboy 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.