Coolishal Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Kilnahue, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Chúil Íseal Uachtarach
- Area
- 109.2 ha
- 270 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 5,948 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolishal Upper, from 176 m² to 187,270 m² (18.73 ha, 46.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Coolishal Upper 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
29 May 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a new vehicular agricultural entrance gate
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260698
28 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a serviced dwelling house and to carry out all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260517
24 Feb 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for a) the construction of a gantry facility and for
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260222
17 Oct 2025Refused
Permission for retention is sought for alterations and modifications
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251326
28 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for alterations and modifications
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251074
31 Oct 2023N/a
Permission to erect a steel framed gymnasium facility and permission to upgrade
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231305
24 Aug 2023N/a
Permission to construct a two-storey commercial structure which shall be
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230988
11 Feb 2022N/a
(1) Retention permission sought for retention of existing works comprising of re
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220181
12 Mar 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A BUNGALOW WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ANCILLARY W
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180293
24 Oct 2017Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A BUNGALOW WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ANCILLARY
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171382
12 Aug 2016Granted (conditional)
RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN THE EXISTING 18 METRE HIGH TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160902
25 Apr 2016N/a
ERECT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160408
12 Feb 2016Refused
PERMISSION & RETENTION PERMISSION FOR : PROPOSED TRUCK WASH-BAY & SURFACE WATER
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160122
26 Jan 2016N/a
PERMISSION FOR 1) PROPOSED TRUCK-WASH BAY & SURFACE WATER RE-CYCLING SYSTEM IN T
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160052
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 Upper.
Recorded monuments
- WX011-006 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Situated on a slight NW-facing slope on a general E-W ridge. Marked as an embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45-50m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It 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: 11 April, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolishal Upper.
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 5 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_3190 (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 Coolishal Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Coolishal Upper · An Chúil Íseal Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,091,872 m² (109.19 ha, 269.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnahue, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Gorey Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gorey Rural electoral division: 8,365 people in 2,811 households; 62% of households own their home; 67% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrigbeg, Coolishal Lower, Coolnastudd, Huntingtown, Killowen, Moneylawn Lower, Moneylawn Upper
- Placenames
- Coolishal Upper 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.