Coolgreany
Coolgreany is a townland in the civil parish of Inch (Gorey Ra), barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Cúil Ghréine.
- Area
- 50 ha
- 123 acres
- Land parcels
- 135
- registered freehold, median 324 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 28
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
135 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolgreany, from 3 m² to 87,432 m² (8.74 ha, 21.6 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 Coolgreany 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
9 Jul 2026N/a
Permission for (1) to demolish existing fire damaged retail unit and adjoining
Permission, 5 homes · Wexford County Council, 20260911
19 Jun 2026Refused
Retention of a hardstanding arena, access lane, timber bridge crossing over
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260797
14 May 2026N/a
Permission which includes the following works; a) The construction
Permission, 15 homes · Wexford County Council, 20260608
28 Jan 2026Refused
the conversion and extension of an existing farm outbuilding under section 7.7.
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260096
2 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the demolition of single-storey extension and outhouses to rear
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251581
28 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of an all-weather play area and
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250925
4 Apr 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention and completion for revised elevations to 2no.
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250382
1 Oct 2024Refused
Permission to make amendments to our existing dwelling with services
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241204
1 Oct 2024Refused
Permission to erect a two-storey dwelling house with services
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241206
25 Jun 2024N/a
Permission to construct a 12 no. unit residential housing scheme which will
Permission, 12 homes · Wexford County Council, 20240729
12 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to allow for the following changes within the proposed
Permission, 6 homes · Wexford County Council, 20240674
21 May 2024N/a
Permission to allow for the following changes within the proposed development
Permission, 6 homes · Wexford County Council, 20240567
25 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of (a) demolition of existing grain storage sheds
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240322
6 Mar 2024Granted (unconditional)
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A HOUSING SCHEME WHICH WILL CONSIST OF THE FOLLOWING
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20190375
22 Jan 2024N/a
Permission for retention of demolition of existing grain storage sheds
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240050
19 Oct 2023Refused
Permission for retention of demolition of existing grain storage sheds
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231248
5 Oct 2023N/a
Permission for retention of works to date and permission to complete the
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231192
22 Jun 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for change of use of part of shop unit to off-licence use and all
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230711
12 Jun 2023N/a
Permission for change of use of part of shop unit to off-licence use and all
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230653
11 Apr 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to a) to re-locate the proposed vehicular and pedestrian entrance
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230386
2 Feb 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a domestic rear extension and rear domestic
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230096
15 Mar 2022Refused
Permission is sought for the erection of 7 number dwellings (1 detached and 6 nu
Permission, 7 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220327
9 Jun 2021Refused
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage with connection
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210905
8 May 2020N/a
Permission to place a 40ft. container adjacent to the dressing room
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200493
6 Apr 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200421
The 25 most recent of 28 applications.
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 Coolgreany.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolgreany.
Architectural heritage
- Ram House, house, 1800–1821 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three- or five-bay two-storey house, extant 1821, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay full-height breakfront on an engaged half-octagonal plan; single-bay (two-bay deep) full-height central return (north). Occupied, 1901-21. Damaged, 1921. Repaired, 1925. Sold, 1973. Restored, ----. Replacement hipped slate roof on a cruciform plan centred on half-octagonal slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and plastic rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered replacement rendered walls. Segmental-headed central door opening with threshold, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron gate.
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 Coolgreany, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolgreany.
- 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
No address of the register names Coolgreany with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Coolgreany · Cúil Ghréine
- Area
- 499,604 m² (49.96 ha, 123.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inch (Gorey Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Coolgreany, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,199 people lived in 420 households in the Coolgreany electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballylarkin, Coolgreany Demesne, Knockgreany, Monareagh, Monature, Scarnagh Upper
- Placenames
- Coolgreany 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.