Coolnaveagh
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmakilloge, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish Cúil na bhFiach
- Area
- 90.6 ha
- 224 acres
- Land parcels
- 49
- registered freehold, median 3,166 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolnaveagh, from 14 m² to 107,865 m² (10.79 ha, 26.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Coolnaveagh 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
10 May 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a two-storey dwelling with services and domestic garage and
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220620
21 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for construction of a replacement dwelling, new on-site sewage treatm
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210973
11 Nov 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191507
12 Jul 2019Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190998
24 Jun 2019N/a
PERMISSION TO ERECT A TWO-STOREY DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190888
22 Dec 2016Granted (unconditional)
CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING, NEW ON SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20110714
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 Coolnaveagh.
Recorded monuments
- WX012-033001 Ring-ditch
Description
Excavated (E3486) during 2005 by E. Moore as part of Site 21 at Coolnaveagh, which was one of the excavations undertaken in advance of the construction of the N11 Arklow-Gorey link-road. Situated on a slight E-facing slope with the canalised N-S Banoge River c. 170m to the E. A penannular ditch (Wth 1.06-1.23m; max. D 0.3m) enclosed a circular area (int. diam. 4.7m; ext. diam. 6.3m) with an opening (Wth 2.4m) at N. Some cremated bone was found in the fill, most of it from a pit (dims 0.8m x 0.5m; D 0.32m) on the outer edge of the ditch at S. The cremation pit (WX012-033002-) is c. 60m to the ENE. (Moore 2008) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 April, 2012
- WX012-033002 Cremation pit
Description
Excavated (E3486) during 2005 by E. Moore as part of Site 21 at Coolnaveagh, which was one of the excavations undertaken in advance of the construction of the N11 Arklow-Gorey link-road. Situated on a slight E-facing slope with the canalised N-S Banoge River c. 100m to the E. A single pit (dims 1.23m NW-SE; 1.06m NE-SW; D 0.25m) contained three fills, two of which had cremated bone. The ring-ditch (WX012-033001-) is c. 60m to the WSW, fulacht fia (WX012-034003-) is c. 100m t the ESE and fulacht fia (WX012-034008-) is c. 55m to the NE with the rath (WX012-003----) c. 75m to the NE. (Moore 2008, 5) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 May, 2012
- WX012-037 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 40m N-S) defined by the parch mark of a wide feature (Wth c. 3-4m) is visible on Google Earth (28/06/2018; 14/07/2018) but the perimeter can only be traced S-W-N as it is confused with vehicle tacks N-E-S. It was first reported by Simon Dowling. See the attached enhanced views from Google Earth (18/06/2018) _2 and (14/07/2018) _1 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 28 February 2020
Architectural heritage
- Coolnaveagh Bridge, bridge, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Single-span railway bridge over road, opened 1863, on a skewed plan. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed or snecked rock faced limestone walls with cut-granite chamfered stringcourses supporting parapets having cut-granite chamfered coping centred on reinforced riveted rolled steel girder. Sited spanning road.
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_3220 (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 Coolnaveagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Coolnaveagh · Cúil na bhFiach
- Area
- 905,693 m² (90.57 ha, 223.8 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
- Ballykale, Carriganeagh, Coolnastudd, Knockduff, Ramstown Lower, Ramstown Upper
- Placenames
- Coolnaveagh 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.