Coolnahinch
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmakilloge, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish Cúil na hInse
- Area
- 67.4 ha
- 166 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 37,307 m² (3.73 ha, 9.22 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolnahinch, from 691 m² to 137,500 m² (13.75 ha, 33.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Coolnahinch 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
5 May 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of: (i) an existing portacabin site office measuring
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260554
12 Feb 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a 284.3 M² extension to the side of existing assembly
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260166
24 Jun 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for development which will consist of: the continuation and
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250773
18 Jun 2025N/a
Permission for development which will consist of the continuation and expansion
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250740
3 Jun 2025N/a
Development which will consist of; the continuation and expansion of a soil
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250655
20 May 2025Refused
Permission and Permission for the retention of an existing portacabin site
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250581
22 Apr 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to excavate part existing site and to fill part of the site with the
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250463
16 Apr 2025N/a
Retention permission and permission for development consisting of: retention of
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250445
11 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a cubicle house with underground effluent tank and milking
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221331
4 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct 2 no. Quarry workshops (each 500m2)
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220133
19 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, stable build
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211146
9 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to relocate the existing construction and demolition waste recycling
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211096
25 Jun 2021N/a
Permission for a waste recycling facility to recover construction & demolition w
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211000
24 May 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for a concrete batching plant and associated storage yard, closed cir
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210785
22 Jul 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to carry out the following refurbishment and extension works on an e
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200817
17 Apr 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for development , within an overall application area of 6 Ha., compri
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200439
12 Dec 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT WITHIN AN OVERALL APPLICATION AREA OF 6H.A., COMPRISI
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191644
2 Dec 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT WITHIN AN OVERALL APPLICATION AREA OF 6 HA, COMPRISIN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191591
30 Oct 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT INTERNAL ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING BUILDING TO PROVIDE ADD
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181496
20 May 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DETACHED STEEL FRAMED MANUFACTURING BUILDING AND ASSOCIATE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160544
15 Apr 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR CONTINUED USE OF THE PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT UNDER PL. R
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160379
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 Coolnahinch.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolnahinch.
Architectural heritage
- Montague Cottage, farm house, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, under construction 1840?; extant 1853, centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor with two-bay two-storey side elevations. "Improved", pre-1904, producing present composition? Hipped slate roof on a quadrangular or U-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on rendered bases on axis with ridge having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters. Creeper-covered flat roof to porch not visible. Creeper-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with creeper-covered sills, and one-over-one (first floor) timber sash windows. Square-headed[?] door opening with step threshold, and creeper-covered doorcase framing glazed timber panelled door. Set in own grounds with unkempt grounds to site [OS].
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_3221 (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 Coolnahinch with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Coolnahinch · Cúil na hInse
- Area
- 673,513 m² (67.35 ha, 166.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmakilloge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Electoral division
- Courtown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Courtown electoral division: 3,012 people in 1,030 households; 79% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Arragorteen, Ballykale, Ballyminaun, Ballyminaunhill, Ballywalter, Carriganeagh
- Placenames
- Coolnahinch 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.