Coolseskin
Coolseskin is a townland in the civil parish of Bannow, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Cúil Seiscinn.
- Area
- 69 ha
- 170 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 1,898 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolseskin, from 38 m² to 240,472 m² (24.05 ha, 59.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Coolseskin 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
14 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an extension to the side and rear of an existing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220958
27 Jan 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WHICH INCLUDES A SLATTED STO
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160054
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Ballyteige Burrow SAC 000696
- Special Protection Area: Ballyteigue Burrow SPA 004020
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyteige Burrow 000696
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolseskin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolseskin.
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 Coolseskin, about 1 in 20 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolseskin.
- 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 Coolseskin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Coolseskin · Cúil Seiscinn
- Area
- 689,508 m² (68.95 ha, 170.38 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
- Coolhull, Craigue Little, Cullenstown, Lough
- Placenames
- Coolseskin 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.