Cools

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cools, from 355 m² to 636,459 m² (63.65 ha, 157.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cools 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.

• 6 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for alterations to the approved planning permission

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251260

• 3 Aug 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of a car port & garage as built to the rear of home

  Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221050

• 27 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission, relevant outline

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220853

• 16 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and including

  Outline permission · Wexford County Council, 20201351

• 9 Sept 2019Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE STORE AS BUILT

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191248

• 19 Jun 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED NEW DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180834

• 27 Feb 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AS BUILT (SLIGHT ALTERATIONS TO PLANS

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180239

• 29 Sept 2017Refused

  PERMISSION FOR A NEW HOUSE TYPE FOR THE EXISTING PLANNING PERMISSION, REF NO. 20

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171288

• 11 Sept 2017N/a

  PERMISSION FOR A NEW HOUSE TYPE FOR THE EXISTING PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 20

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171210

• 3 Jul 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMES

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170856

• 29 Sept 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161072

• 4 May 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160461

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments

• WX037-033 Moated site
  Description

  Located at the bottom of the N-facing slope of NE-SW ridge of Forth Mountain. It is described by Barry (1977, 218, WX 43) as a raised platform with a wet moat (Wth 3.5m; D 1.5m). It has been removed since 1977, and is not visible at ground level in a scrub-covered area. 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: 13 December, 2012

• WX042-001 Moated site
  Description

  TSituated towards the top of a slight S-N spur on the NW side of Forth Mountain. This is a rectangular grass and fern-covered area (dims 35m NW-SE; 27m NE-SW) defined by denuded earthen banks (Wth 5.2-8.3m; int. H c. 0.5m; ext. H 1.7-1.85m) on all sides except the SE and external flat bottomed moats (Wth of top 6-9.3m; Wth of base 2.8-4m; ext. D 2m). Each side is surrounded by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5.5-6.5m; ext. H 0.8-1.4m). 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: 27 May, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1776 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse with dormer, extant 1776, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height central return (west). Occupied, 1911. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched slate roof (west) with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, love heart-perforated decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, rooflights to front (east) pitch, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered red brick header bond stepped eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered rendered walls. Hipped elliptical-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, timber doorcase with panelled pilasters supporting iron-covered cornice on consoles, and moulded rendered surround framing timber panelled door having sidelights below fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds with roughcast cylindrical piers to perimeter having rubble stone solider course capping.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cools.

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.

No address of the register names Cools with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Cools · Na Cúilte

Area

2,565,388 m² (256.54 ha, 633.92 acres)

Civil parish

Coolstuff, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere West

Electoral division

Forth, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Forth electoral division: 880 people in 289 households; 86% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintlea, Crandonnell, Growtown Upper, Knockeen, Rowestown, Shelmaliere Commons, Tincurra

Placenames

Cools 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.