Coolishal
Coolishal is a townland in the civil parish of Bannow, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is An Chúil Íseal.
- Area
- 119.6 ha
- 296 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 5,586 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolishal, from 381 m² to 211,194 m² (21.12 ha, 52.19 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 Coolishal 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
24 Feb 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for A) changes to both a dwelling and garage from that
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260229
20 Jun 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250761
30 Jan 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the removal of the existing viewing stand structure
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240077
4 Oct 2022Refused
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house domestic gara
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221306
23 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a domestic garage and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210418
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 Coolishal.
Recorded monuments
- WX046-015 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a slight W-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AYK 20). It is slightly truncated by a NW-SE road bank at SW, but is not visible at ground level in pasture. 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
- WX046-081 Enclosure
Description
Located at the N end of a slight N-S ridge. This is a raised rectangular grass and scrub-covered area (dims. 33m NW-SE; 29m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.9m) and outer fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.5m) at SE, and a scarp at SW. There is a straight NE-SW field bank at NW and a straight NW-SE field bank at NE with no evidence of the monument beyond these features, which probably truncate the rath to some extent. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolishal.
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 Coolishal, 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 Coolishal.
- 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 Coolishal with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Coolishal · An Chúil Íseal
- Area
- 1,196,360 m² (119.64 ha, 295.63 acres)
- Civil parish
- Bannow, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bargy
- Electoral division
- Bannow, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 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.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balloughton, Ballyfrory, Ballygow, Coolhull, Danescastle, Graigue
- Placenames
- Coolishal 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.