# Coolhull, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Bannow, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford; in Irish Cúil Choll.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,189,818 m² (118.98 ha, 294.01 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,273 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Bannow, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/bannow.md
- Barony: Bargy
- Electoral division: Bannow, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,310 people lived in 480 households in the Bannow electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/53766
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 240882
- Centre: latitude 52.232946, longitude -6.706326 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolhull, from 191 m² to 378,395 m² (37.84 ha, 93.5 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 5662404: 378,395 m² (37.84 ha, 93.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5662404.md
- Parcel 5323525: 199,303 m² (19.93 ha, 49.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5323525.md
- Parcel 393838: 191,064 m² (19.11 ha, 47.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/393838.md
- Parcel 5323798: 124,610 m² (12.46 ha, 30.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5323798.md
- Parcel 376328: 102,978 m² (10.3 ha, 25.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/376328.md
- Parcel 5323513: 47,526 m² (4.75 ha, 11.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5323513.md
- Parcel 364672: 31,792 m² (3.18 ha, 7.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/364672.md
- Parcel 397548: 20,130 m² (2.01 ha, 4.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/397548.md
- Parcel 372392: 16,142 m² (1.61 ha, 3.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/372392.md
- Parcel 416313: 8,438 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/416313.md
- Parcel 362184: 5,990 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/362184.md
- Parcel 3435836: 5,287 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3435836.md
- Parcel 430965: 4,621 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/430965.md
- Parcel 386371: 4,248 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/386371.md
- Parcel 4862716: 4,128 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4862716.md
- Parcel 4874395: 4,002 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4874395.md
- Parcel 385569: 3,531 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/385569.md
- Parcel 365906: 3,273 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/365906.md
- Parcel 4874401: 3,151 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4874401.md
- Parcel 4874418: 3,092 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4874418.md
- Parcel 4874455: 3,075 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4874455.md
- Parcel 383041: 2,908 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/383041.md
- Parcel 5323504: 2,745 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5323504.md
- Parcel 401672: 2,658 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/401672.md
- Parcel 406436: 2,323 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/406436.md
- Parcel 427755: 2,165 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/427755.md
- Parcel 372394: 1,760 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/372394.md
- Parcel 403822: 1,598 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/403822.md
- Parcel 412989: 1,533 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/412989.md
- Parcel 382210: 1,508 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/382210.md
- Parcel 409440: 1,154 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/409440.md
- Parcel 387801: 1,115 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/387801.md
- Parcel 412418: 896 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/412418.md
- Parcel 5278833: 419 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5278833.md
- Parcel 411588: 191 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/411588.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Coolhull in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

6 applications, newest first.

- 13 May 2024, Wexford County Council 20240525: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for erection of an agricultural building with underground storage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/127112
- 30 Jan 2024, Wexford County Council 20240077: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for the removal of the existing viewing stand structure. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/126603
- 22 Dec 2023, Wexford County Council 20231579: N/a. Permission. Permission for the removal of the existing viewing stand structure and for the c. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/126507
- 30 May 2023, Wexford County Council 20230609: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for erection of an agricultural building with underground effluent. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/125436
- 2 May 2023, Wexford County Council 20230460: N/a. Permission. Permission for erection of an agricultural building with underground effluent. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/125266
- 28 Mar 2019, Wexford County Council 20190393: Granted (conditional). Permission. PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN ANIMAL HOUSE WITH ASSOCIAT. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/108245

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Coolhull.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- WX046-026: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX046-026----. Situated in the slight valley of a small NNW-SSE stream, which is immediately to the SW. This is a D-shaped scrub-covered area (diam. c. 35m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.3- 0.6m; ext. H 0.4-0.8m) N-E-S, but the perimeter is truncated by the stream at W. There is no visible fosse or entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 16 August, 2013
- WX046-028: House - fortified house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX046-028----. There are no historical references to a castle at Coolhull, although this house was probably built in the second half of the 16th century. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) in 1640 Nicholas Devereux owned 120 acres at Coolhull as well as 120 acres at St. Imocks, in St. Imoge’s parish, which is probably around the church (WX046-029001-) and now part of Coolhull townland, but the castle is not mentioned (Simington 1935, 152; Jeffrey 1979, 69-70; Butler 1985, 48-9). Robert Leigh writing in 1684 confirms that Devereux of Ballymagir (WX045-052001-) had another fine house at Coolhull, which had all passed to the Earl of Anglesey during the Cromwellian period (Hore 1853-4, 466). It is not known when it was abandoned, but it is marked as a roofed structure on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The castle is situated on a level landscape and consists of a rectangular house of three storeys, with an entrance tower of four stories offset to the S (by 2m) on the W side. Much of the stone is granite, and all the dressed stonework is granite. Both the house and tower are complete with granite quoins and stepped crenellations, and both parts were built in conjunction. All the wooden floors in the house were supported on granite corbels. A pointed doorway (Wth 1.03m; H 2.12m) in the N wall of the tower is protected by a machicolation on the parapet and a yett, and it is also covered by a light in the W wall on the ground floor of the house. The doorway leads through a spacious lobby (dims 2.7m N-S; 1.65m E-W) to a newel stairs in the tower. There is no murder-hole, but from the lobby a pointed doorway (Wth 1.03m; H 1.99m) on the E leads to the ground floor of the house (int. dims 14.6m N-S; 6.05m E-W), which has three chamfered slit windows on the S wall and four on the N. The two most easterly lights on the N wall were broken out as secondary doorways. The long draw-bar socket of the entrance doorway extends into the ground floor of the house. The newel stairs in the tower rises anti-clockwise, and from it a lintelled doorway (Wth 0.74m; H 1.81m) leads to a lintelled garderobe chamber (int. dims 2.85m E-W; 1.08m N-S; H 2.52m) at the S end of the tower with a light in each wall, that at S with pistol-loops covering the S wall of the house. The garderobe has a floor opening, now blocked, that leads to an oubliette or hidden chamber beneath. From the stairs a pointed doorway leads to the first floor of the house, which was the main public living-area. Although there is no evidence of internal divisions a destroyed fireplace in the E wall and an intact fireplace on the N wall (Leask 1941, 102-3) suggests that it was divided into a least two rooms by wooden partitions. On this floor the S wall has a plain light, two single-light round-headed chamfered windows, and one double-light round-headed window, while the N wall has three single-light round-headed chamfered windows, one double-light round-headed window opposite that in the S wall, and a corner loop at the NW angle. A lintelled doorway in the W wall of the house leads into the chamber over the entrance lobby in the tower, and this chamber has a rectangular window in the N wall. The stairs continue to the second floor of the house, which is entered through a lintelled doorway. This floor has two simple lights in both the N and S walls but no other features. A lintelled doorway also leads from the newel stairs to the chamber at the N side of the tower that has a simple light in the N wall, and another doorway from the newel stairs leads to a mural stairs at the S end of the tower that emerges on the S wall-walk of the house. This is now inaccessible, but the parapets are perfectly preserved with five three-step merlons on the long walls and a square-shaped corner machicolation at the NE angle. This is perfectly preserved and has three single pistol-loops and two slit-loops covering the E and N walls of the house, each of the slit-loops with two shot-holes. The chimney-stacks rise through the N and E walls but are not supported by corbels on the outer faces of the walls. Instead the wall-walks and parapets project slightly. The house was roofed twice as two crease-lines can be seen in the W wall, although the E end of the roof appears to have been hipped. In the tower the newel stairs continues to a fourth floor in the tower, which is partly over the housing of the stairs and was partly provided with a wooden floor supported on corbels in the E and W walls together with a ledge in the W wall. There is one slit window in the N wall and two in the W wall. The newel stairs continues in the tower to the inaccessible wall-walk of the tower. The parapet is destroyed, but it commanded the machicolation over the entrance doorway at N, and it may have been roofed as two corbels on its E wall suggest a lean-to roof. From the wall-walk steps on the inner face of the wall at S lead to a look-out over the stairs housing. There is no evidence that there was ever a bawn attached to the castle. It is now a National Monument, but the tower is inaccessible. Archaeological testing (10E0420) on the site of a new house c. 50m to the S produced some medieval pottery from the topsoil but no features relating to the house (Stafford 2013). Archaeological testing (E005086) S of the structure demonstrated that the subsoil outside to the SW had been cut into by farm buildings but the base of an open ENE-WSW drain, running just S of the outlet of the garderobe survived here (Pollock 2019; excavations.ie 2019:658). (O’Callaghan 1980 81, 26-31) This is a National Monument in state ownership: No. 644. See the attached views from SE _4; aerial from SE _5; the doorway _25; interior of N wall _54 The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 16 August, 2013
- WX046-029001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX046-029001-. Situated on a slight bluff in a fairly level landscape with a small NE-SW stream just to the SE and a shallow valley extending off to the SW. The parish church of St Imoge or Shemoge is within a circular graveyard (diam. 34m) defined by earthen bank and hedge. The name is derived from St. Díomán of Clonkeen, Co. Limerick (LI014-007001-), a hermit of the Céli Dé. His death is recorded in 811, and his feast was celebrated on the 10th December (Ó Riain 2011, 266-7). The church is a rectangular structure (ext. dims 12.15m E-W; 6.65m N-S) with the walls reduced to a height of 1-1.3m. There is an opening now at the E end of the S wall, but no features are visible apart from a subrectangular granite font (ext. dims 0.72m x 0.66m; H c. 0.45; int. dims 0.45m x 0.43m; D 0.23m) at the SW angle. There is a rectangular cairn (dims. 5.1m E-W; 4.5m N-S; H 1m) attached to the E wall. St Imock's Well or Shemoge Well, where patterns were held on the 10th of December (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 88) is located c. 375m to the S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Mooe Date of upload/revision: 16 August, 2013
- WX046-029002: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX046-029002-. Situated on a slight bluff in a fairly level landscape with a small NE-SW stream just to the SE and a shallow valley extending off to the SW. The parish church of St. Imoge or Shemoge (WX046-029001-) is within a circular graveyard (diam. 34m) defined by earthen bank and hedge. There is a rectangular font (WX046-029003-) at the SW angle of the church. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 August, 2013
- WX046-029003: Font, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX046-029003-. There is a subrectangular granite font (ext. dims 0.72m x 0.66m; H c. 0.45m; int. dims 0.45m x 0.43m; D 0.23m at the SW angle of the church of St. Imoge or Shemoge (WX046-029001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 August, 2013

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Coolhull, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 Coolhull.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wexford/coolhull.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/coolhull.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/coolhull.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Coolhull with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballyfrory: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballyfrory.md
- Ballygow: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballygow-240299.md
- Coolishal: https://everytownland.com/wexford/coolishal.md
- Coolseskin: https://everytownland.com/wexford/coolseskin.md
- Craigue Little: https://everytownland.com/wexford/craigue-little.md
- Cullenstown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/cullenstown-241009.md

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.

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Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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